C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)
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#2I liked the Robot Chicken sketch on this where the nerd thinks Turkish Delight is some kind of sex act.
Caution: NSFW
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#3This may be my sugar-drenched American palette, but I don't remember turkish delight being that sweet. The rosewater ones are really good though.
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#4As a child, I really liked the nut flavored Turkish delight. I never liked the regular rosewater flavor though.
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#5This may be my sugar-drenched American palette, but I don't remember turkish delight being that sweet. The rosewater ones are really good though.
That's my memory as well, although I have only had Turkish delight in the samples they have at duty-free in the Istanbul airport. (I bought other things, so I guess the samples worked to get me into the store...)
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#6When my kids were younger, I took to reading the the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my kids at the dinner table. Just for fun, on some of those evenings we'd have Turkish Delight at the table. The whole experience was really nice overall.
But I have to say, many of the Turkish Delight flavor variations weren't very appealing: rosewater, mint, etc.
We tended to like the fruitier ones such as lemon and orange. (And there was also pistachio, which I recall liking.)
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#7I liked the Robot Chicken sketch on this where the nerd thinks Turkish Delight is some kind of sex act. Caution: NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrplL8orvac
I thought it was some type of tobacco at first.
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#8When my kids were younger, I took to reading the the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my kids at the dinner table. Just for fun, on some of those evenings we'd have Turkish Delight at the table. The whole experience was really nice overall. But I have to say, many of the Turkish Delight flavor variations weren't very appealing: rosewater, mint, etc. We tended to like the fruitier ones such as lemon and orange. (A…
The rose-flavored ones are my favorite!
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#9I still like Fry's Turkish Delight (made by Cadbury). The combination of thin chocolate covering to the weight and almost chewy mouthfeel of the rose-flavoured gel works well - it makes what chocolate there is more unctuous. The weight of it is part of what sells it for me, even though I expect it's mostly water captured in the gel.
Actual sugar-dusted Turkish Delight cubes are less impressive. I don't mind the rosewater flavour - that's what I associated with the product - but it's just thick jelly. There's no contrast. And since I despise nuts, I'll not be eating any with crunchy bits either.
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#10How can you _not_ like Turkish delight? I have some every time I see it --- which is rarely, granted.