# What did you think Turkish Delight was, when you first read Narnia? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking, books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [February 11, 2023, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-turkish-delight-was-when-you-first-read-narnia/979630 "2023-02-11T17:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 89
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-turkish-delight-was-when-you-first-read-narnia/979630/89 "2024-07-10T21:21:49Z")
I missed this thread last year, but it was just linked to here: > [@The most disappointing dessert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disappointing-dessert/1003971/60): > > We had a thread on Turkish delight not that long ago Where i posted Perhaps that was the most disappointing dessert i ever had. In that thread there was an interesting article: > **[C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction Was Convincing American Kids That They Would...](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fiction-convincing-american-kids-that-they-would-like-turkish-delight)** > > What would the perfect fantasy treat look like? Depending on where you're from, probably not this. 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-turkish-delight-was-when-you-first-read-narnia/979630)._