[ SECRET POST #3279 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3279 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm guessing that Turkish Delight isn't a commonplace sweet in the US, then?

In the UK and Ireland, it has been sold as a rose-flavoured chocolate-covered bar for over 100 years - no child reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe when first published in 1950 would have been unfamiliar with it and it would have required no explanation. Nowadays, with Turkey being a popular holiday destination and with Turkish communities established in most European countries, the traditional sugar-dusted kind and flavours other than rose are also well known.

[(Anonymous)]

well, in Florida in the US, I can get Turkish Delight at the grocery store in the foreign food section and it has pistachios in it.

So, I wouldn't expressly call it popular enough to find in candy shops on trays. Fudge yes.... Turkish Delight, not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

The chocolate bar kind I'm talking about is sold wherever sweets and chocolates are sold - corners shops, petrol stations, supermarkets etc. It's made by a UK company - Frys of Bristol - and has been around so long that it would not be considered foreign or unusual in any way. It's certainly a modified version of the traditional kind, but is recognisable as resembling and derived from the traditional sweet. It would have been absolutely familiar to Edmund in this format as a chocolate bar or individual chocolate covered sweets. The book is non-specific about whether it's this kind or the traditional kind. A boy of his social class might have known the traditional kind as an imported luxury for special occasions.

These days, the traditional kind is found in Turkish-owned shops or the relevant supermarket section and would also be a common gift to bring back from a trip to Turkey or, under alternative names, from Greece or Cyprus.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

We don't see either kind frequently, unless it's in a specialty store.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Fry's is common in Australia as well, and traditional versions are ot uncommon to find at doner kebab shops (Shawarma - since I get the impression Australia is slightly inaccurate in names).

[(Anonymous)]

Well, this is what this Turkish Delight lark is reminding me of - Americans losing their minds over shawarma after it was in Avengers. All this stuff about "What is it? Where can they get it?" and all that, whilst the whole UK was like "In the kebab shop, obvs - what you don't have those? Sorry for you."

[(Anonymous)]

It's not as common as in the UK, but we do have schwarma in the U.S., and gyros, which are similar. We just don't call the restaurants that serve them "kebab shops".

[(Anonymous)]

I've always wondered this, Americans seem unreasonably confused about it.

[(Anonymous)]

It... how is it "unreasonable" to be confused by a reference to a food item that isn't common in the U.S.? Keep in mind that C.S. Lewis doesn't really go into much detail about what Turkish Delight is, only that it's sticky and apparently Edmund loves the stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Why does everyone always pick such weird things to get mad at Americans about? You have plenty of good reasons, but you resort to "Why don't you know what this candy is?" and "Why do First Ladies do what they do?"

[(Anonymous)]

the big things are explicable. the little things are not.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - Not sure the anon is mad, per se, but there's at least one person in this thread that seems fond of the notion that America doesn't have _____ or Americans don't know what _______ is. It conveniently overlooks the fact that the U.S. is a very large, diverse country, and not all Americans are equally ignorant of ________.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's really not. I don't suppose we have it in the Central US at all.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not common, but that doesn't mean we don't have it at all. You just have to look in specialty shops that cater to people looking for Middle Eastern foodstuffs.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not very common, no. You can find it in stores that carry Middle Eastern goods, but it's not something most Americans grew up eating.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not the kind of thing you find at any convenience store or even most candy stores, but it's around. I feel like I've bought it at Trader Joe's before. Definitely not popular enough to be universally known among all American children. As a child, I only knew it existed because of the book.