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11 January 2007

I'm eating Turkish Delight. It's...interesting.

post by: bunnyfire at: 17:09 | 28 comments

Clearly you mean 'yummy'.

posted by chrismear 11 January | 17:13

Very yummy. I hope you didn't get it from the White Witch of Narnia.

posted by LoriFLA 11 January | 17:13

Two different flavors too. One comes from some kind of tree resin and the other is rose flavored.

It's growing on me.

posted by bunnyfire 11 January | 17:15

I could eat that stuff every day for the rest of my life and be perfectly happy.

posted by youngergirl44 11 January | 17:19

I never understood the appeal. Why would anyone eat blandly flavored pure sugar?

posted by Specklet 11 January | 17:23

It's got starch in it as well! Also, if you get decent stuff, the flavour can be rather delicate and pleasant.

posted by chrismear 11 January | 17:28

Why would anyone eat blandly flavored pure sugar?
Because it's really nice?

posted by seanyboy 11 January | 17:28

Cadbury has turkish delight chocolate--I don't know what kind Specklet had, but what I ate was more intense.

posted by brujita 11 January | 17:33

That's odd - my MacBook appears to have replaced all mentions of "foul tasting" with things like "yummy" and "really nice".

posted by TheDonF 11 January | 17:35

I'm bringing turkish delight tomorrow and hiding it in ur beer, you UNBELIEVER.

posted by chrismear 11 January | 17:50

When I first read LWW, I had no knowledge of Turkish Delight. I somehow got it into my head that it was another name for baklava, because I knew baklava was of Turkish origin, and frankly I could understand betraying one's siblings for some good baklava.

posted by DevilsAdvocate 11 January | 18:03

I'm looking forward to tomorrow - it needs to be very good. I need a good night with beer. No sodding Turkish Delight tho'. As long as I don't forget, I'm bringing blank Metagrams.

posted by TheDonF 11 January | 18:06

I remember reading the Narnia Books and - being an kid in the US - wondering exactly what in the hell turkish delight was. I remember had imagined some kind of incredible pastry confection like a candy drizzled bar cookie or something.

I was seriously grossed out when I tried an imported packet of Cadbury's turkish delight. What in the hell!? A block of gelatinous, rose-flavored goo covered in a thin layer of chocolate?

That's what Eustace was so keen on having lots and lots of? God, he's grosser and more sick in the head than I thought!

posted by loquacious 11 January | 18:15

What loquacious said. I thought it was going to be this incredible candy, like the best candy EVAR and it was totally disgusting. Now, if the white witch had been offering $100,000 bars, I would have been tempted, but turkish delight is NASTY.

posted by mygothlaundry 11 January | 18:25

loquacious: couldn't have said it better myself.

E.U.R.G.H.!!!

posted by lonefrontranger 11 January | 18:33

I had chocolate covered turkish delight from a brit food store once. it was the exact consistency of a fake boob.

posted by jonmc 11 January | 18:56

A block of gelatinous, rose-flavored goo covered in a thin layer of chocolate?

That's what Eustace was so keen on having lots and lots of? God, he's grosser and more sick in the head than I thought!

Exaaaactly. Sorry, chrismear. And seanyboy.

posted by Specklet 11 January | 19:13

That's odd - my MacBook appears to have replaced all mentions of "foul tasting" with things like "yummy" and "really nice".
posted by TheDonF 11 January | 17:35

I'm bringing turkish delight tomorrow and hiding it in ur beer, you UNBELIEVER.
posted by chrismear 11 January | 17:50

chris, if he drinks that pouffy cherry beer like he did last time, he'll never notice.

Turkish delight is fabulous. The real stuff, not the Cadbury's dark pink jelly stuff.

posted by essexjan 11 January | 19:26

I've had it once or twice and find it really bland. But, possibly due to being diabetic, my sugar tolerance is higher than most. Too rich? Too gooey? Too chocolatey? Blasphemers, all of you! Gimme!!

posted by deborah 11 January | 20:20

PS: It was Edmund, not Eustace, who wanted more Turkish Delight from the ~~Queen~~ Witch.

posted by deborah 11 January | 20:22

Mine was the real stuff, from the Mediterranean story down the street (Which is actually a Middle Eastern store. I can see it why they market themselves that way these days now.)

Actually, it isn't bad stuff.

posted by bunnyfire 11 January | 20:41

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posted by matteo 11 January | 21:15

Another one who tried it as a child thanks to the LWW. I wouldn't share it, and as a result was too embarrassed to admit that I hated it. Of course, rosewater flavouring is a bit much for your average Canuckian 7-year-old. I still cringe at the memory of my selfishness, though.

posted by elizard 11 January | 22:05

Deadcowdan quoted me a theory once (I don't know the origin), that the reason Edmund was so fixated on Turkish Delight was the rationing of sugar during WWII. Since it is almost all sugar, it could have been very appealing.

posted by King of Prontopia 12 January | 04:25

chris, if he drinks that pouffy cherry beer like he did last time, he'll never notice

That stuff was lovely! Surely it's a sign of my adventurious palate and self-assuredness that I drink that yummy stuff in public? No? Okay.

posted by TheDonF 12 January | 05:16

This (youtube) is the stuff we grew up with (and still have) in the UK. YUM

It doesn't have much resemblence to the real stuff, but I love it (and the real stuff) just the same.

I think turkish delight is rather like marzipan, in that, you either love it or you hate it. I love Marzipan too.

posted by Arqa 12 January | 05:26

I too was drawn in by the Turkish Delight rave in LWW. Tried some from a really nice little confectioner in Cheltenham and thought, "what the holy fuck was he thinking? Did this boy have no taste buds at all? Was he fed wood chips and rusty nails so that anything would taste better?"

Revolting.

posted by plinth 12 January | 08:36

We had a BBC animated version of TWW when I was a kid. The turkish delight looked like those after dinner mints shaped like pillows. And I love those, so I assumed I would love turkish delight. I did, even though it doesn't look like little pillows. One of my sales reps went to Turkey last year and brought me some. They had lemon and mint in addition to the traditional rose flavored stuff. Rose is still my favorite.

posted by youngergirl44 12 January | 09:56

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