Topic: More Royal Brierley Studio.

[chopin-liszt]

You just have to be careful to "enjoy them responsibly". 
Yet another oxymoron.

[Carolyn Preston]

Well, given what my diabetes medicine does to me, it might not be a bad thing. I must confess I am not aware (being a colonial) of what parma violets are.

Carolyn

[Lustrousstone]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parma_Violets
They taste and smell disgusting and were a proper violet colour in the olden days

[Anne]

They are hideous things, not even fit for the board's cafe! 

[chopin-liszt]

That leaves you with a moderation problem, Anne. Where are you going to put this wibble, now it is all contaminated? 
Carolyn, the sugar-free sweeties are made by a brand called Sula. They are quite nice - like a "boiling" - a hard thing for sucking on. But they are small.  And they do have a laxative side effect if you eat 8.
I can't stop eating sweeties once I start. Not until the packet is finished.

[Anne]

Licorice allsorts consumed in quantity have the same effect Sue, as my son's father found out the hard way! (I did tell him before he ate a whole 500g packet of them in one sitting.)

[chopin-liszt]

I've had to give up liquorice. It affects my guts and waterworks very badly.
I only discovered that when trying to drink fruit teas - they contain liquorice extracts and have no warnings about it. When I contacted the manufacturer to complain about the lack of warning, they said they couldn't do it, because that would mean they were making medical claims for the tea.
As a food substance, they did not legally need to provide any warnings about the contents!

But your son's father would have found out, the soft way.        

I've found dried apricots make wonderful "sweeties", but they have similar side effects when you eat a whole packet.

[Carolyn Preston]

See my problem is not sweeties at all. I'm more of the crisps persuasion, myself. Ever so hard to stop at just a few!

Carolyn

[chopin-liszt]

Have you ever tried apple crisps? Sweet ones. They are rather good.
You can combine crisps and sugar and do double the damage. 
Or stay off the sweet ones, and get to feel smug and self-righteous about it, because you could be doing worse?