In the US they are small chocolate covered candies with a variety of fillings. It appears in France it many refer to chewy caramels.
Soul Coughing. Super Bon Bon.
I always imagined Turkish Delight as being chocolate, with some kind of marshmallow component. I’m aware of the tragic reality, but prefer to picture my Edmund selling out his siblings for something good.
It’s true. My wife’s favorite metaphor for Sloth. “What do you think I’ve been DOING all day? EATING BON BONS?”
My wife really needs to up her metaphor game.
Good find. Although in my mind’s eye, the bon bon consumer is a bit more zaftig.
Ms. Harlow’s figure does not betoken a heavy eater of bon bons.
Bonbons from my childhood. I think we bought them in Vancouver.
All the hard candies here are called bonbons, and the fancy chocolates are called pralines or truffles.
Huh. Around these parts, a praline is basically a sugar patty with nuts, like this. No chocolate involved.
This for me too.
Well, any hard or chewy non-chocolate fancy small candy would be a bon-bon. Except mints, those would be humbugs.
Yeah, definitely something chocolatey here. (I think the word looks wrong without the E.) Though, in my mind, the term is quite vague, referring to a lot of different sweets, they’re all chocolate.
The powder on Turkish Delight is cornflour/corn starch. It’s there to stop the bits sticking together. The coating on Jelly Babies is the same.
Upon seeing the thread title, I said to myself “Pffft, they’re the opposite of hard candy. They’re soft candy.” (with assorted fillings).
Two Seattle stories: we could never afford bonbons when I was a kid. Walked into my inlaws’ house, and there on the coffee table was an open box of See’s (filled dark chocolate assortment). Thought I’d gone to heaven.
Next visit, it got more heavenly when they served Aplets & Cotlets. My wife made a face and said “Too sweet.” Me and our kids (who have never uttered those two words together) just loved them. Then someone said “You know, these are really close to Turkish Delight.” My eyes got wide and I said “Now I understand… I’d betray my family and a Messianic lion for these!”
From the article:
*Aplets and Cotlets are a version of Turkish Delight, a confection that figures prominently in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Many contemporary readers of C.S. Lewis’ book wrongly believe the candy is as fantastical as Narnia, unaware that in 19th-century England, the gelatinous treat was as familiar as Tootsie Rolls are today.
Although molded, fruit-flavored jellies date back to the Middle Ages, Turkish folklore holds Turkish Delight was the brainchild of a former prisoner who was promptly named confectioner to the court by a king who was tired of chipping his teeth on hard candies. Once enjoyed only by nobles and the very rich, the introduction of corn syrup and industrial gelatin in the 1800s helped make Turkish Delight an affordable indulgence. Children kept Turkish Delights in their pockets, and women tied them in their handkerchiefs.*
That’s what I think of too even though I know the term isn’t exclusive to the ice cream novelty. I also thought the one common denominator with bon bons is that they’re all dome-shaped but, after seeing some the linked examples in this thread, I find that’s not true either.
Chocolates. Hence Minnesota calling “mint chocolate chip” ice cream “peppermint bon bon.”
Yeah these are what I think of. And that’s not the casual name for them, these sweets are specifically labelled as bonbons. Old fashioned sweet shops often keep them in big jars behind the counter and sell them by weight. Though nowadays are much more typically sold in packets.
The from-Turkey loucums I usually get have a mix of cornflour and icing sugar(which has a little bit of starch in already, anyway).
The from-Turkey loucums I usually get have a mix of cornflour and icing sugar(which has a little bit of starch in already, anyway).
Peggy Bundy from Married With Children.
Aside from that it is just a word for some type of candy I have never encountered.
Humph. Bon-bons are chocolate. Turkish Delight is nasty.
Yes. That’s exactly what comes to my mind. I picture the singer standing at the top of that giant cut-out guy. Freaky-eerie, but a cool tune, nonetheless.
Two things, for context.
Firstly, at the time and place the words Turkish Delightwould have referred to the jelly-filled chocolate bar made by the Fry company.
Secondly, this was England, during the WWII, at a time of heavy rationing. This was perhaps the first sweets Edmund had seen in a year.
As for bonbons, in British usagethey are sugar balls with a toffee centre, usually strawberry or lemon flavour.