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.
Most preservatives I know of would overpower any kind of floral flavor
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.
Huh? You clearly haven’t tried rose water Turkish delights
That, and good Turkish delight is pretty dang nice
I’ve had it in Turkey and I was still meh.
The baklava, though…🤤
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.
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.
Milk and Chocolate, the cold baklava is good
The syrup baklava? BAD!!!
Bam Bam Baklava
I don’t know. That witch had a huge supply though.
Okay. Lemmy told me that Turkish delight was gross, so I got curious and brought some. And it was awesome.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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 don’t even like the non-rose flavors, but the rose is absolutely disgusting. Literally tastes like someone sprayed perfume in your mouth.
If people didn’t like it, it wouldn’t be manufactured and sold.
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.
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.
I think also some people of certain nationalities quite like it.
one piece of bubble yum would’ve made that child’s head explode
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, they’re just Turkish delights with fruit or nuts in them, but they taste much better
It is similar yes.
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