[ SECRET POST #5098 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5098 ⌋

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[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/jVhHapf.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Is Turkish delight not a thing in the US then?

I love it, but I know it's one of those things that divides opinion.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but I grew up in the US and had no idea what it was either.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. Our equivalence to Turkish Delight is probably candy like Sour Patch Kids, Starbursts, or Jelly Bellies. Fruit and sugar gelatin-like candies.

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up in england and didn't know what it was either when I read it as a kid in primary school; but then again it had fallen out of favor in the 90s at the time before it made a 'comeback' several years later.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not common, anyway. I don't think I ever tried it until I was in my thirties.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's a thing in North America, generally. In Canada you can get those chocolate-covered ones, but I wouldn't think that's super-authentic and also they're not that popular.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the US. There's an international market that mostly sells middle eastern food--they make their own amazing flatbread--a few miles from me and they sell the good stuff freshly made there. Haven't gone in months because of COVID.

I've had the bad imported stuff that's coated in tons of powdered sugar and super dry and chewy, too, and it sucks. If that was someone's only taste of it I can't blame them for thinking it's nasty.

I've also had decent packaged stuff from a company in I think Oregon, but maybe they went out of business since I haven't seen it for sale in years.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not very common, no. I can find it in Middle Eastern markets and there are companies that make similar products like jellied fruit candy, but it's far from being a mainstream candy that kids would know about.

[(Anonymous)]

As folks have said above, specialty and international grocery stores may carry it, as well as bakeries/confectionaries in areas with a large Middle Eastern population. It varies a lot - in my last move, I went from a place where I saw it twice (one of those times at a limited holiday event), to a place where there are 4 bakeries within 5 miles that offer multiple varieties; and I never saw it sold where I grew up.

[ecto_gammat]

I thought the same thing! I was beyond confused, even after seeing the old television miniseries.

[(Anonymous)]

ngl if it was a nice roasted meat then that might be worth selling out for too lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too! I decided it made sense because the turkey would probably be nice and warm.

[(Anonymous)]

TBF, I mean, who's to say Edmund wouldn't have? During wartime meat (especially fresh roasts of meat) were hard to come by.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[(Anonymous)]

I got the sense that it was a sweet though I wasn't familiar with it either but I think your mental image is hilarious.

[sparklywalls]

I remember trying Turkish Delight as a kid because of the BBC Narnia show. I begged my grandma to buy me some and I vaguely recall her saying I wouldn't like it.

Imagine how disappointed I was to discover Edmund sold out his family for something that was quite frankly (to my little kid tastebuds), disgusting. Urgh.

[hey_hey_hey]

i thought that was fluff or ambrosia at first glance before reading everyone's comments about it being candy. i can't see.

[(Anonymous)]

I read it as a little kid in my country's translation and the stuff is called "Turkish honey" here so I always imagined it as something very sticky and sweet with an obvious honey taste. When I actually tried it I first of all hated the texture and secondly it just tasted.... really bland. So I still preferred to keep imagining it the way I did originally.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the same thing1 I was imagining poultry and dumplings, or something like that.

I'll do you one better.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was drugs. For some reason, at the point I came across it, I somehow knew that the movie Midnight Express had to do with drugs in Turkey (I hadn't watched it, just knew it existed) and thus, in my mind, drugs and Turkey were intertwined. That, along with the name, made me decide that's what it was. I personally blame the Just Say No and D.A.R.E. campaigns for making me think that things I didn't know about and sounded like they tempted people were drugs.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a description of Turkish Delight. OP doesn't know how to read.

"The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle onto the snow, and instantly there appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to be several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the very center and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious."

[tabaqui]

That's interesting....what made your brain jump to meat?

I had no idea what it was as a kid, either (US person), but I kind of assumed it was some kind of chocolate or something, since a kid would get most excited about candy, seemed to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I am dying with laughter! Selling out his family for meat lmaoooo

I always thought it was some kind of pudding with spices (anise, clove, rose water, saffron, etc.) And wanted to try it until I did--
I still remember my feeling of disappointment when I tried the gummy like cube...

[meadowphoenix]

I honestly kinda like the idea of turkish delight being not an actual thing, that most kids wouldn't realize the cultural significance of, but something a kid could contextualize as being worth selling out your family for, lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

That's fucked up, right?! He could've sold them out for some protein and that'd be relatable, but he sold them out for candy!