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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…🤤
turk here, baklava has to have the right amount of syrup. too much and it’s a disgusting sweet mess, just right and it’s a delightful flaky , pistachio topped treat
Not all turkish delight in Turkey is good. Especially the one in tourist shops. The same way you can eat meh sushi in Japan or meh pizza in Italy.
Bam Bam Baklava
✋ - Getting your siblings killed for Turkish Delight.
👉 - Getting your siblings killed for baklava.
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.
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.
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.
This has great copypasta potential
This but unironically
could be a cilantro tastes like soap or a broccoli tastes like sewage kind of thing.
the cilantro one is genetic supposedly, the broccoli is that one guy on lemmy and I still want to know if its also genetic or any other reason but there probably aren’t enough people with the correct skill set that care enough to figure it out.
I also don’t like rose in food but its mainly because someone I always hated as a kid, and still don’t want to be anywhere near, smelled like rose
Most cilantro soap people are considered super tasters. We can detect the bitter tasting compound in a lot of vegetables easier than most.
I love good coffee, but it needs a lot of sweetener or all I taste is bitterness. Just overwhelming bitter taste that blocks all enjoyment.
Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead drolex! HAAAAAARRRRK! Hark! Triton! Hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of drolex, even any scantling of your soul is drolex no more, but is now itself the sea!
To quote Guy Fierri regarding roses in food: “It tastes the way old furniture smells.”
Fuck me I had the same thought once as Guy Fieri. I guess I’m in flavortown.
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.
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
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.
Sugar is a pretty good preservative
Which, amusingly, is why Turkish Delight sucks when it’s americanized into being Oops! All Sugar :)
I have never seen that here. The disgusting version I see is more like thick chewy fruit leather.
Turkish delight is delightful.
It’s right in the fucking name
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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.)
one piece of bubble yum would’ve made that child’s head explode
If people didn’t like it, it wouldn’t be manufactured and sold.
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.
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.
nougat? it’s a jelly thing
Right yes, it’s been a while.
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.
It needs to be fresh made and done right.
He was on war rations/austerity. You could probably have tempted him with a raw sugar cane.
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
yeah, a lot of people forget that last part because of all the singing
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.
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.
whoops, lokum I meant
