Nasty sweets that no one actually likes, and the company whom made them only kept in production because of their other products. The multi-colored versions that had a diffurent name were kool though.
Mlee: "Damn. There's still some parma violets left in that big bag of sweets..."
Laney: "Should we unwrap them before we burn them?"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)