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how the hell do I get to use this XKCD?
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.
You know, most of the goth chicks I’ve known were bubbly and outgoing, they just liked how they looked in black lace and big galumphing boots. I tended to hang with that crowd in high school and I can say from experience they’re closer to Abby from NCIS than Wednesday Addams.
Betrayed all of humanity for it nonetheless
It needs to be fresh made and done right.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Combine that with being hungry enough to steal and I’m sure that bread was orgasmic.
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.)
Can anyone fill me in on the Edmund part?
Lion, witch and the wardrobe reference
Ty
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
I don’t exactly forget the plot after 5 minutes, I just misremember it as being about the French Revolution.
Well, a French revolution.
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.
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.
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 :)
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 but the traditional flavors are rose, mastic, and citrus fruit like lemon or bergamot.
Yeah, they’re just Turkish delights with fruit or nuts in them, but they taste much better
It is similar yes.
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.
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.
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.
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
I love Turkish delight and have since I saw and read Narnia as a child.
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.
