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He was on war rations/austerity. You could probably have tempted him with a raw sugar cane.
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.
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.
On a hot day, after hiking up some distance, in the shade, with a tall glass of cold water. Welcome to Greece.
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.
bro forgot about the concept of hunger ☠️
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.
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…🤤
✋ - Getting your siblings killed for Turkish Delight.
👉 - Getting your siblings killed for baklava.
You mastered your meme alright XD
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
There’s a market here that sells boxed baklava from turkey, and it’s good. Too sweet for me. But the Greek Orthodox church nearby makes and sells baklava for raising money and during Greek fest, and it’s absolutely incredible. I always assumed I just didn’t care for Turkish baklava but liked Greek. After your comment, I’m wondering if it’s a boxed vs homemade dynamic I’m tuning into.
I think it’s a mix of staleness and philo dough quality. The imported turkish stuff has to be made, packaged, transported etc , it gets cooled, whatever and takes ages to get to you. Meanwhile the dough is getting stale and absorbing too much of the syrup, so it becomes lower quality. Also, as you point out, it’s mass produced.
Also, the homemade greek stuff probably starts out with higher quality philo dough, and is made fresh that morning.
Not to say the greeks, armenians , syrians or whatevers don’t have the capacity to make better baklava, I’m sure they all have great chefs.
Greek baklava also is typically made with butter and walnuts, whereas Turkish baklava is with pistachios and oil.
All that said, it’s all part of the Eastern Mediterranean cultural continuum, it’s all one thing and the flag you put on it matters less and less the more you learn about it.
part of the Eastern Mediterranean cultural continuum
this sounds like a great diplomatic way of phrasing the foods that have no specific origin during the era of the ottoman empire. I mean, some things are recent enough to be labelled turkish, or at least turkic, but others are uncertain enough to deserve this moniker.
I’ll tell you one thing though… none of that food is german, no matter what the walking Berliners will tell you about Döner Kebap.
butter and walnuts
Keep talking to me…
Those are all really fair points. I wish I lived somewhere where people made good food, but alas, I have to wait for church bake sales lol
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
Milk and Chocolate, the cold baklava is good
The syrup baklava? BAD!!!
Huh? You clearly haven’t tried rose water Turkish delights
I don’t know. That witch had a huge supply though.
It needs to be fresh made and done right.
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.)
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.
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.
whoops, lokum I meant
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.
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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?
Turkish delight is delightful.
It’s right in the fucking name
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.
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Betrayed all of humanity for it nonetheless
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
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!
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
I love cilantro, but the taste of rose makes me think of potpourri and soap in old lady’s bathrooms. I’ve had rose flavored Turkish delight before, and it was okay, but I much prefer the other flavors.
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.
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.
He has a sauce brand that was fantastic except they included little flavor bits of things like “actual onions and peppers” that would get stuck in the spout.
This is why people use powdered chemicals you madlad!
Oh, is that like the fabled Donkey Sauce?
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.
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.
If people didn’t like it, it wouldn’t be manufactured and sold.
I’m pretty sure no one actually likes Balut. That entire industry is kept alive by dares and gross out tv shows.
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 think also some people of certain nationalities quite like it.
