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Turkish Delight is the usual for my family every year at Christmas, Cadbury even make Dairy Milk with Turkish Delight in.

You have a curly blond afro? Can we see it?

They have chocolate covered Turkish Delight here in the UK that's not very good but I like it with pistachios.

Kerry--

What is it... about 6 bucks back home for the 13.4 oz (380 g) jar? At the LIDL where I live in France, it's the cheapest place to get it. And, you wanna now how much it is? A cool 79 euro cents. And, with the current exchange rate, that makes it $1.002!

I didn't get Thanksgiving this year, but I get cheap mustard.

NOT THE MUSTARD!!! Don't take it away. Who can we email to complain?

I never tried Turkish Delight until I was in college. My first taste was a homemade batch - I found the recipe years before I ever found a shoppe that stocked the sweet. The results were tasty, if not a perfect specimen. Later, I found a little shop in Pike Place Market (in Seattle) that stocked Turkish Delight. I LOVE the rose flavor!

If anyone has never tried Turkish Delight, they can get a similar experience by finding themselves a box of Aplets & Cotlets, made in Cashmere, WA. (Costco stocks them this time of year.) These candies were invented by two men (one from Turkey and the other from....???). They wanted to find a way to use the plentiful and cheap apples and apricots in the region to make candy. The result is Turkish Delight, studded with walnuts and flavored with more American flavors.

@ Christopher - LOL!!!!!! "Another guy at work said it tasted like a grandmother."
THAT WAS HILARIOUS.

This may sound silly, but I always thought Turkish Delight was a meat dish. I had no clue it was candy. This was when I was probably six or seven, watching the PBS version. I was so shocked when I found out it was a sweet.

I first tried Turkish Delight (after, like you, reading about it in the Narnia books) about two years ago and really hated it! However, since coming to London, I have discovered that delicious Turkish delight does, in fact, exist! There's a vendor in Borough Market (pretty much my favorite place in London) that sells Turkish Delight and Baklava, and they're always giving out free samples. Free, DELICIOUS samples! I've tried pistachio and rose, and they are super creamy and flavorful! I'll definitely be bringing back a couple boxes to DC for a little British holiday flavor.

I've always wanted to try it! When I was a kid I thought it was completely all fantasy as well, though in my older years, working at Big Lots for a brief time we had a Fruits Delight, which was similar but I figured was the closest I'd ever get to it...

I thought it was going to be a buttery, flaky pastry, but when I actually got some I fell in love with it anyway. I can't have it in the house, or I'll devour the whole box, just like Edmund.

I even like those chocolate-covered "Turkish Delights" from Cadbury. Oh my!

I actually first thought Turkish Delight was some sort of Turkey dish (maybe turkey dumpling?) oh I was so young and naive.

when I read the book, I definitely went to bed every night thinking that turkish delight was probably so good that I'd trade my sisters for it in a second. I also finally had some of the real stuff in my 20s (after already having discovered some years earlier that it wasn't anything like the chocolatey, caramely, nutty confection that I thought it might be) and I was SO sad. Sad because it wasn't anything like I dreamed, and sad because a friend had brought a big box of it from Turkey for me, and I was so disappointed that I couldn't enjoy it for what it was.