“And they’d do anything to spend the night with that fella off the Turkish Delight advert who’s full of Eastern monosodium glutamate”
– Reasons To Be Miserable (Part 10)
So… what do we know about Turkish Delight?
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The A to Z of HMHB
“And they’d do anything to spend the night with that fella off the Turkish Delight advert who’s full of Eastern monosodium glutamate”
– Reasons To Be Miserable (Part 10)
So… what do we know about Turkish Delight?
Peter Mcornithologist
shrinking in size each month
30 September 2017
dr desperate
Full of Eastern promise (for those who weren’t around in the UK from the late 50s on), but has never contained MSG.
1 October 2017
hendrix-tattoo
George Lazenby starred in the early ad’s….
1 October 2017
Cream cheese and chives
Always nicer than the stuff people brought back from their holidays in Cyprus.
1 October 2017
SIDESHOW BOB
tastes like perfume, bloody awful
1 October 2017
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
I’m with Sideshow Bob rather than Cream Cheese & Chives on this one.
Also @CtSO shouldn’t Monosodium Glutamate have an entry in the A-Z?
2 October 2017
Dan mud
So revolting in taste and consistency that it was a genuinely pleasant surprise to discover the actual stuff from Turkey doesn’t taste anything like it.
Pretty sure George Lazenby advertised a differnent Fry’s delicacy though.
2 October 2017
GIpton teenager
Live and direct from Turkey… I agree with Dan Mud. The good Lokum (local word) can be delicious. Not cheap, mind
2 October 2017
hendrix-tattoo
George advertised “Big Fry Turkish Delight”
https://youtu.be/WQxcoGOhnts
2 October 2017
EXXO
Alright Tony, whereabouts are you kidda? Have an Efes (or beş or
altı) for me. I forgot to say I can receive texts but not send them, so yeah see you for pints (on me) when you get back.
There are so many flavours of lokum in Turkey & throughout the old Ottoman Empire, but my personal favourite is indeed the one which tastes a bit like the stuff inside the Fry’s, i.e. rosewater, which yes also goes in many perfumes. I try to like the pistachio stuff but it just drives me to eat a pile of pistachios instead, much nicer.
Amazing that FTD ever survived really, when you consider it was launched the year before Gallipoli.
2 October 2017
dr desperate
The original confectionery rahatü’l-hulkum (“giving rest to the throat”) was first imported to England in 1861, under the name ‘Lumps of Delight’.
https://daily.jstor.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Lokum_in_Punch_1861-419×580.jpg
Dickens mentions it in ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’, and C S Lewis in ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’.
When Richard Wright added a keyboard motif full of Eastern promise to every song on ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, the other Floyd (q v) members called it “Rick’s Turkish Delight”, after the theme on the TV advert.
2 October 2017
GIpton teenager
Nigel – We’re in Turunc. Wall-to-wall blue blue sky, 27°C, currently drinking Tuborg, it’s fizzy muck, but someone has to do it, it doesn’t drink itself you know.
2 October 2017
EXXO
I don’t think Turunç was more than a hut by the beach the last time I was round that way. And the Tuborg was about 10 pence. But I feel like I can close my eyes and I know exactly what every single thing looks, tastes and feels like there.
2 October 2017
GIpton teenager
Nigel – three huts now. And two bars. And a Cats’ Protection League charity shop. (Sounds like a hmhb lyric).
3 October 2017
hendrix-tattoo
“‘Would you like some Turkish Delight my child”
https://youtu.be/LIHUvfdG-nk
5 October 2017
mate of the bloke
Got some bars of the stuff at home. Usually get a box of the proper sort of Turkish Delight at Chrimbo.
9 October 2017
Oskar schindler crazy golf
I had an obese aunt in Hexham who used to eat the other, white label Frys Turkish Delight in the late 1970’s. What happened to that? Its like a confectionary version of the film The Forgotten with Julianne Moore
9 December 2017