how the hell do I get to use this XKCD?
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Ahahahahaha I didn't know this one!
He's done one for literally everything. Somehow.
He was on war rations/austerity. You could probably have tempted him with a raw sugar cane.
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.
On a hot day, after hiking up some distance, in the shade, with a tall glass of cold water. Welcome to Greece.
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...🤤
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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✋ - Getting your siblings killed for Turkish Delight.
👉 - Getting your siblings killed for baklava.
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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.
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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.
He didn't even get to eat it himself. It was for his sister's kid.
bro forgot about the concept of hunger ☠️
It's pretty good IMO. Not my favorite of Middle Eastern sweets (I think baklava or maybe halva get that prize).
I keep wishing that one day I'll find a place to taste baklava made with pistachios. It's always peanuts instead.
I have... definitely had that before.
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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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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?
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Good Turkish delights are good. Not all Turkish delights are good though.
Good turkish delight is heavenly. Bad turkish delight is abysmal.
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It needs to be fresh made and done right.
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?
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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.
Oh sooo much of it is not good. But when you find the good stuff, it was worth the struggle.
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Betrayed all of humanity for it nonetheless
If people didn't like it, it wouldn't be manufactured and sold.
I'm pretty sure no one actually likes Balut. That entire industry is kept alive by dares and gross out tv shows.
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