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⌈ Secret Post #6912 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Screw you, American Narnia fans. Stop bitching about Turkish Delight. I love it. My late grandma always bought me one of those "rose" flavoured octagonal tins for Christmas every year. I will never not love it, and it tastes so good.

[(Anonymous)]

American Narnia fan here. I didn't get to try Turkish Delight until I was like, 30. And frankly I understand why Edmund sold his soul for it. I think it's fucking amazing. Just thinking about it right now is making my mouth water.

[(Anonymous)]

I LOLed. I didn't love my first experience with Turkish Delight, but understood that it was something from another culture, and in the context of rationing and probably a serious lack of candy/sweet things. Later on in life, I had some homemade TD and it was delicious! Far better than storebought, though I prefer the fruit flavors to the rose flavor.

Glad you have such wonderful memories of it and your grandma, OP!

[sabotabby]

I feel like people are maybe not getting genuine Turkish Delight. After thinking I hated it for years I had it at a Persian store and it was amazing.

+ a million

[(Anonymous)]

I had some when I was visiting Turkey and it was DIVINE. Literally melt-in-your-mouth, so light and fragrant and delicious. Even if that much sweetness isn't to everyone's taste, the people who say it's outright bad are obviously either not getting the real stuff, or getting it when it's nowhere near fresh.

[dinogrrl]

A Turkish professor (er...he was Turkish, he taught geology) at my college brought some Turkish delight back with him after a trip home one semester and I happened to be passing by him in the hallway and he practically threw some at me demanding I try it. It was, as you said, amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

This is my experience. I bought some at a regular old drugstore on my trip to London and it was meh. Years later I saw some handmade at an international market, and I could tell it was a completely different thing just by looking at it. It was delicious.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not for me and I understand people being surprised and disappointed on encountering it, but acting like it's obviously disgusting is annoying

[(Anonymous)]

well, anyone who tries a badly-made version of a food can only assume it's all like that if they don't know it's not right. I can only hope the people viscerally reacting with disgust have not been enlightened to the fact that they ate the wrong thing. if they know and still overreact? no pity and no mercy.

brought to by being disgusted by pork chops for 20 years only to learn by doing that my mom just overcooked it and there is in fact a right way to make them.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought vegetables were all nasty (unless they were deep-fried and maybe breaded) until I had some that were prepared well, and then my mind was blown.

[(Anonymous)]

^This. My partner thought he hated spinach because he'd only ever eaten canned spinach as a kid and thought it was bitter and gross. Turns out he loves fresh spinach that hasn't been boiled to death and canned.

[(Anonymous)]

This was me with steak. My parents would buy the thinnest, leanest cuts because they're the cheapest, then proceed to cook them until they had the same consistency of a tractor tyre. My sister still cooks/eats her steak the same way. It's like trying to chew a shoe.

Only in the last few years have I started to like it because a. I'll get a cut with some marbling, and b. only cook it until it's medium rare. Even if I do overcook it, it's still tender enough to still be recognisable as organic matter.

[(Anonymous)]

You can eat the real genuine thing and still think it's disgusting. Pretending it's objectively disgusting is dumb, but so is pretending everyone who hates it just hasn't tried the good stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. Getting bad Turkish Delight might be disgusting for some, and not everyone likes their candy to taste like flowers. That aspect really isn't for me. My initial experience with it was a turn off re: texture as well, the later Turkish Delight I tried had a much softer, less chewy texture that was a lot more pleasant to chew.

[kaijinscendre]

Never had Turkish Delight, but I have had aplets and cotlets. And those are delicious.

[starfleetbrat]

I love real turkish delight - I could eat that all day, but also Fry's Turkish Delight bars are really good, they are rose flavoured turkish delight coated in chocolate

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds odd (though not necessarily bad)-- once I made dark chocolate infused with rosewater and I'm not quite convinced the two flavors play as well together as say, dark chocolate and orange.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 million, I love Fry's Turkish Delight. It's not as great as real Turkish Delight but it is a lot more available!

[(Anonymous)]

As an Australian, yes. We have musk sticks here - think chalky, pink twizzlers that smell like a cake of fancy soap - so if you like those, you'll like Turkish delight, but the Fry's one are the most accessible to me.

I like to suck the chocolate off then eat the jelly slab thing...

[(Anonymous)]

I never liked Turkish Delight because as a child I had a store bought once (Not American, also tried reading Narnia in my 20s and hated every word of it and never have got to a Turkish Delight part) And then I tried hand-made one and it's my favourite thing in the world. I adore pomegranate, it's so good.

[ibbity]

I've had really bad Turkish delight and I've had good Turkish delight and there is no comparing the two. The bad kind is pure sugar with an annoying sticky texture and the good kind is soft and has a lovely flavor. For those who want to try something genuinely good that's easily accessible in the US, the company Liberty Orchards makes this. It's from an Armenian recipe, not Turkish, but it's the same type of candy (commonly called "lokum" or "locoum".)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an American Narnia fan and I've never heard anyone trash talk Turkish Delight

[(Anonymous)]

Today's episode of Tasting History with Max Miller is Turkish Delight!

I've made it two or three times and I've bought them from stores. They remind me of gummy candies or the center of a jelly bean.

As someone whose weakness is caramel and chocolate, Turkish Delight couldn't measure up.

I do understand how Turkish Delight was decadent and very tempting to Edmund now that I'm an adult though.

[(Anonymous)]

I saw that pop up in my feed and cackled!