• meeeeetch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    9 个月前

    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.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 个月前

          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

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
            17·
            9 个月前

            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.

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              9 个月前

              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.

                • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  9 个月前

                  You could learn to make your own! :D

                  Disclaimer : do not learn to make baklava from scratch, you will go mad. It’s up there with Sarma and Mantı as one of the most labor intensive parts of turkish cuisine.

              • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                9 个月前

                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.

                • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  9 个月前

                  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.

        • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          9 个月前

          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.

        • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 个月前

          ✋ - Getting your siblings killed for Turkish Delight.

          👉 - Getting your siblings killed for baklava.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    9 个月前

    Okay. Lemmy told me that Turkish delight was gross, so I got curious and brought some. And it was awesome.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    42·
    9 个月前

    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?

      • drolex@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        58·
        9 个月前

        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.

        • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          9 个月前

          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

          • Duranie@leminal.spaceEnglish
            7·
            9 个月前

            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.

          • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            9 个月前

            Most cilantro soap people are considered super tasters. We can detect the bitter tasting compound in a lot of vegetables easier than most.

            • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 个月前

              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.

        • grissino@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          9 个月前

          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!

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        16·
        9 个月前

        To quote Guy Fierri regarding roses in food: “It tastes the way old furniture smells.”

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
            4·
            9 个月前

            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!

    • verdigris@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
      3·
      9 个月前

      I don’t even like the non-rose flavors, but the rose is absolutely disgusting. Literally tastes like someone sprayed perfume in your mouth.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    9 个月前

    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?

  • PanArab@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    9 个月前

    Good Turkish delights are good. Not all Turkish delights are good though.

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 个月前

        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.)

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      9 个月前

      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.

      • Denjin@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 个月前

        I can still remember my first time trying actual Lokum as a kid in Istanbul over 30 years ago.

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 个月前

      I’m pretty sure no one actually likes Balut. That entire industry is kept alive by dares and gross out tv shows.

  • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    9 个月前

    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.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 个月前

      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.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 个月前

      There was a Turkish Bakery I used to go to and let me say I understand Edmund 100%.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 个月前

      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.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 个月前

    He was on war rations/austerity. You could probably have tempted him with a raw sugar cane.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 个月前

    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.

  • dx1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 个月前

    It’s pretty good IMO. Not my favorite of Middle Eastern sweets (I think baklava or maybe halva get that prize).

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 个月前

    Understanding the plot of Les Miserables with or without the tangents?

    Or are we talking the musical where one of literature’s nastiest villains gets the funny comic relief song.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    9 个月前

    Are turkish delights the same as like aplets and cotlets and the misc fruit delights? Because if so I fucking LOVE them and don’t understand all of the hate.