I missed this thread last year, but it was just linked to here:
In that thread there was an interesting article:
Towards the end of the article, it mentions the fact that the book doesn’t actually say that Turkish Delight is a candy, and that some readers thought it was something else entirely, like turkey with stuffing, for example.
For some reason, that’s how it was for me when I first read TLTWTW in 5th grade. I imagined it as being a savory hot delicious entree, like the Hungarian goulash I’ve had once in my life, or homemade German meatloaf with brown gravy.