Sujet : Re: "Turkish Delight in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 08. May 2025, 20:04:04
Autres entêtes
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Lenona wrote:
I found this at r/cooking. It brought up a couple of points I had never
thought of!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1kgiu8u/whats_the_most_overrated_dish_youve_ever_tried/
Turkish delight is mentioned, with some disgust, in a Peter Wimsey novel. It is used as a vehicle for poisoning.
We may assume that Dorothy Sayers didn't like it much, but this we before the WWII sugar shortages.
William Hyde