# People who live outside the USA: Do you routinely eat grape jelly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 20, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-live-outside-the-usa-do-you-routinely-eat-grape-jelly/1011893 "2024-12-20T00:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 139
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-live-outside-the-usa-do-you-routinely-eat-grape-jelly/1011893/139 "2024-12-25T21:23:26Z")
We also had a whole thread on this a few years ago > [@What did you think Turkish Delight was, when you first read Narnia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-turkish-delight-was-when-you-first-read-narnia/979630): > > Many of us read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as children, were almost as enthralled as Edmund at the thought of Turkish Delight, then later in life discovered what it really is, sort of a rosewater jelly: at best, nothing much to get excited about if you hadn’t just come out of the deprivations of WWII; and at worst, revolting. One wag on Twitter has said: “If you read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child, then finally tasted it, you may be entitled to compensation.” I’m looki… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-live-outside-the-usa-do-you-routinely-eat-grape-jelly/1011893)._