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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.
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.)
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.
Can anyone fill me in on the Edmund part?
Lion, witch and the wardrobe reference
Ty
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 :)
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...🤤
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.
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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.)
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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.
Hard disagree
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.
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!
This has great copypasta potential
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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.
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one piece of bubble yum would've made that child's head explode
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