2w ago

Turkish Delight is a horror.

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He was on that Blitz Rationing.
Like Turkish Delight is fine, but it isn't "get your siblings murdered by a witch" good. But I suppose if you've been cut off from your home country's empire's only source of flavor for a year and a half, your judgement may be clouded a bit.
- That, and good Turkish delight is pretty dang nice
  
  I've had it in Turkey and I was still meh.
  The baklava, though...🤤
- Huh? You clearly haven't tried rose water Turkish delights
- I don't know. That witch had a huge supply though.

Okay. Lemmy told me that Turkish delight was gross, so I got curious and brought some. And it was awesome.
- It's good, it's just not 80% sugar American candy. I really do think the hyper processed food takes away the joy of having something more complex tasting from people.
  (Don't get me wrong, it's definitely sweet.)
  
  If anything it's too sweet, to the point of cloying. But it's more of a textural thing, at least for me.
- Real Turkish Delight or the chocolate covered bar thing?
  Both are good imo, but very different.
  
  The real thing. I don't know anything about a chocolate bar.
  
  I'm almost certain that the bar reassembles itself into its original form in your bowels. Eat one of those and you become constipation, destroyer of O-rings
- That’s a very quick turnaround.
  
  No, it was from a different post. Several months ago.
- I love Turkish delight and have since I saw and read Narnia as a child.

I’ve had store bought Turkish Delight.
It was awful.
Same for the stuff in those gift basket dried fruit arrangements. Horrible. Even chocolate assortment boxes might have some. Just as horrible. Always left uneaten if you figure out which one it was.
I took it upon myself to make some at home, rose flavor. No nuts or anything, just the candy part.
It was lovely. Light flowery rose smell, sweet, soft chew, with a confectioner’s sugar coating. Awesome with a good black tea. Do recommend 100%. If that is what Edmund had I’d understand.
I have no idea why the store-bought stuff is vile.
Edit: what if the premise is that most everyone finds consumer grade Turkish Delight awful, yet Edmund doesn’t, so that just makes him even more dislikable because of his awful candy preference?
- Most preservatives I know of would overpower any kind of floral flavor
  
  Sugar is a pretty good preservative
  
  Turkish delights, as I know them, are basically little sugar bombs, so they shouldn't need any other preservatives to have a very long shelf life.
  I've never had any awful tasting ones, so I can only guess how they might be screwed up. My guess would be that some overly greedy multinational(s) is (are) using corn syrup instead of sucrose.
- Turkish delight is delightful.
  It’s right in the fucking name

My partner has the same story about being horrified at and disappointed in Edmund, but I just don't understand - Turkish Delight is such a treat.
It's soft and yielding with a delightful sweet rose flavor and the powdered sugar melts into syrup in your mouth. How do people not like it?
- Because rose flavour in food is disgusting.
  
  So you dislike the thing that I like. Well, well. Guess what? I absolutely despise the things that you like. And the things you love? I abhor them. You must be a brute, a philistine, a barbarian, not only to have such an uneducated palate, but to have the foolishness to admit it. Ha ha, truly! This person has different tastes! Very bizarre but also absolutely wrong.
  
  To quote Guy Fierri regarding roses in food: "It tastes the way old furniture smells."
  
  Hard disagree
- I don't even like the non-rose flavors, but the rose is absolutely disgusting. Literally tastes like someone sprayed perfume in your mouth.

Everyone seeing this meme and talking about Turkish delight and not talking about how they seem to think the plot of Les Mis is Jean Valjean stole a load of bread because omg, bread is so good.
- Combine that with being hungry enough to steal and I'm sure that bread was orgasmic.
  
  He didn't even get to eat it himself. It was for his sister's kid.
- bro forgot about the concept of hunger ☠️

how the hell do I get to use this XKCD?
- Ahahahahaha I didn't know this one!
  
  He's done one for literally everything. Somehow.

Turkish delight needs to be eaten while drinking coffee darker than a goth girl's soul. It is not confectionery to be used for stuffing your face.
- You know, most of the goth chicks I've known were bubbly and outgoing, they just liked how they looked in black lace and big galumphing boots. I tended to hang with that crowd in high school and I can say from experience they're closer to Abby from NCIS than Wednesday Addams.
- On a hot day, after hiking up some distance, in the shade, with a tall glass of cold water. Welcome to Greece.

Good Turkish delights are good. Not all Turkish delights are good though.
- Good turkish delight is heavenly. Bad turkish delight is abysmal.
- But is it good enough to betray your family to a stranger?
  
  Are you a young child living in besieged England with war-time sugar rationing? Are you a traumatized youth coping with an entirely new scenario with no safety net, with a powerful adult promising your safety? (Also, floral flavors would have been more familiar to an English kid than an American one. Familiarity is a big factor there.)

If people didn't like it, it wouldn't be manufactured and sold.
- Right, it's just rose flavoring is one of those flavors (like lavender) that if overdone tastes like soap. I'd wager that most people who tried it and disliked it it was because it had too much.
  
  Some people just don't like floral flavors. If your only experience with flowers is soap and perfume then of course that's the association you'll have. Me, I love em. Rose, violet, nasturtium, hibiscus, elderflower, orange blossom, lavender, I even eat dandelion heads from the yard.
- That has nothing to do with whether or not it is a horrible thing or not. Look how many McDonald's burgers are made.
  Real Turkish delight from a good shop or restaurant in Istanbul is amazing. Evem some good authentic Turkish restaurants in the US can prepare it properly. I'm guessing the Narnia level magic shit was pretty damn amazing. The stuff you buy in boxes in some gift shop in the US probably shouldn't even be considered edible.
  
  I can still remember my first time trying actual Lokum as a kid in Istanbul over 30 years ago.
- I'm pretty sure no one actually likes Balut. That entire industry is kept alive by dares and gross out tv shows.
- I think also some people of certain nationalities quite like it.

one piece of bubble yum would've made that child's head explode

I'm convinced that the difference between good Turkish delight and a bad one must be a hell of a gulf. Aside from the Cadbury stuff I've only had really good Turkish delight, and it's a nice light treat. The mrs hadn't had the good stuff before, and swore she hated it before she tried it.
- the Cadbury stuff
  I'd say that's more "inspired by" and not actual turkish delight
  Source: I'm turkish, and sometimes a delight. Usually not.
  
  Yeah it's chocolate with a mildly rose inspired nougat, not their worst but definitely not good.
- There was a Turkish Bakery I used to go to and let me say I understand Edmund 100%.
- I actually had some made by a restaurant chef and that was lovely. But the stuff in the corner store when I was reading the Narnia books was an utter horror.

He was on war rations/austerity. You could probably have tempted him with a raw sugar cane.

It needs to be fresh made and done right.

Joke's on you, I always forget the plot to Les Miserables within 5 minutes of re-learning it.
- Guy steals a loaf of bread, goes to prison, gets out, meets a prostitute, sires her child, 3d prints a silencer and then executes a CEO
  
  Oh
- I don't exactly forget the plot after 5 minutes, I just misremember it as being about the French Revolution.
  
  Well, a French revolution.

Never had Turkish delight, but I'd imagine it would taste significantly different depending on the starch and if you only used starch to make it the gel or if you used gelatin too. Using unmodified corn starch to make a gel sounds like an extreme pain in the ass, though quite doable.
- Real turkish delight is extremely good. There's a lot of mass produced cheap stuff that is not good.
  
  Oh sooo much of it is not good. But when you find the good stuff, it was worth the struggle.
  
  should one go to candar for it, I've first heard of Turkish delight from an eu4 youtuber.
- Lokma differs from region to region, but its always far from anyone's favourite.
  
  I don't know man, I got a box from haci bekir in Istanbul, the flower and spice flavors especially were nuts. If I lived nearby I'd have a problem.
  
  Lokma
  Lokma is something entirely different.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokma

It's pretty good IMO. Not my favorite of Middle Eastern sweets (I think baklava or maybe halva get that prize).
- I don't personally like those either, baklava was always too sweet to me, and halvah too bland and crumbly.
- I keep wishing that one day I'll find a place to taste baklava made with pistachios. It's always peanuts instead.
  
  I have... definitely had that before.

Can anyone fill me in on the Edmund part?
- Lion, witch and the wardrobe reference
  
  Ty

Understanding the plot of Les Miserables with or without the tangents?
Or are we talking the musical where one of literature's nastiest villains gets the funny comic relief song.
- a gent of good intent who's content
  to
  be
  bom bom bom

Betrayed all of humanity for it nonetheless

Are turkish delights the same as like aplets and cotlets and the misc fruit delights? Because if so I fucking LOVE them and don't understand all of the hate.
- Yeah, they're just Turkish delights with fruit or nuts in them, but they taste much better
- Yeah but the traditional flavors are rose, mastic, and citrus fruit like lemon or bergamot.
  
  I had the mastic ones once. It tasted like houseplant mixed with ointment. I just let the guys at work hate-eat it.
  Other Turkish delight flavours are nice.
  
  If I stumbled upon mastic flavored lokum I'd have to give it a try.
- It is similar yes.

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