Floral Tablets

Would the maker please step forward….

by michaelp

Thank goodness someone else remembers floral tablets. My brother and I were becoming convinced we were the only ones… Does anyone make these anymore?

  1. andyg remembers: -

    think these were called ‘violet’ something ?

  2. andyg remembers: -

    could this be palma violets

  3. Kate remembers: -

    Floral Gums? can still get those, had some last week from a shop in Scotland nr St Andrews

  4. Grace remembers: -

    Has anyone ever heard of sweets called japs my dad is convinced that they exist but i have never heard of them

  5. gaynor remembers: -

    I remember floral tablets they where little oval shaped sweets that where pastel coloured in tins to freshen your breath , and Parma Violets where something completely different. You can still get Parma Violets and in giant size too, as for floral tablets not seen any for ages but a friend said you can buy then in health food shops, but i have not seen them

  6. Heidi remembers: -

    I remember those…very odd things. We used to buy them from the chemist! They also had tins of ‘cherry lips’ – tiny lip-shaped (obviously!) fruity jellies. Not really worth eating as they were so small!

  7. BN remembers: -

    I thought floral gums were like different coloured tiny flowers and tasted well, very chemically (but I liked them). They came in small plastic bags with flowers on them. I can see them in my mind – shame can’t download it.

  8. Rosie Nichols remembers: -

    I remember Japs too and every so often I smell someone wearing a perfume that smells just like them, which prompts me to try to find them in so called sweet shops. I don’t think I have seen them since about 1968. You could get large or small ones and were like little coloured laquered shiny boxes.

  9. Tina remembers: -

    I remember Floral Gums and that taste! It was like someone had sprayed perfume over them.

  10. Emma remembers: -

    The Japs were called Jap Desserts which were my Dad’s favourite sweets but were very hard to find in the seventies. You can get mini versions in Dolly Mixtures – they are the coloured cubes with sugar coating and a kind of soft coconut thing going on inside….

  11. paul remembers: -

    hi,anyone remember whirly gigs? They were a chocolate bar made up of 4 round whirls of chocolate and also chocolate nut logs,they were to die for back in the 70s.

  12. Pamela remembers: -

    Japs or jap nuggets are still around; they are the cube shaped sweets that are now and have always been part of dolly mixtures as I remember, my dad loved them too, you used to be able to buy them in quarters yrs ago… probably a bit like you can now buy individual quality street populars!

    Moving on to the 80s… does anyone remember BITZ bars, kinda like kit kats but my fav was the mint version in a green and white wrapper, chocolate with a hint of mint flavour, little fizzy like bits, kinda like the new cadburys mint crisp bars… but yummier cos they were more like kit kats, biscuit too!

    Please tell me someone else who witnessed the 80s remembers them, I know I didn’t dream it !!

    Pam

  13. Sara remembers: -

    Parma violets, theyre awesome!

    You can buy mini ones or massive ones – they’re great fun!!

  14. Jill remembers: -

    Re: the floral tablets – do you mean the small oval breath freshener ones called floral cachous (pronounced “cashews”)?

  15. Emma remembers: -

    Floral tablets yeah, you can get these in Scotland. As you can many of the sweets on here!

  16. Michelle F remembers: -

    Where these possibly Floral Cashews as in ‘breath fresheners’, I remember they came in a small box with a flip top lid and they were all pastel colours.

  17. gina downings remembers: -

    just found this site,and my mouth won’t stop watering.
    All talk of those fantastic sweets we used to enjoy, those were the good old days weren’t they?.whirley gigs were my favourite chocolate and chocolate tools, also parma violets were to die for,you can still get them now but they are giant size.does anyone remember the spanish tobacco in a pouch.?

  18. Lesley remembers: -

    I have seen similar sold in chemists, floral tasting little sweets marketed as ‘cashous’ or ‘devon cashous’ very ‘fragranced’ flavour