This stuff's been around as long as cockroaches, and now it's even in Favourites boxes.
But I have never seen anyone actually eat it. It usually sits in the bottom of the box with the coconut ones, and eventually disappears. Where does it go?
Why Does Turkish Delight Chocolate Even Exist????
GOFYS on 21/12/2014 - 10:17
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I like it. Send them all to me.
Or just save them for trick or treat.
Me too. Bloody love em.
Different tastes
In my family group the Turkish delight and Coconut chocs go first….
Stop liking what I don't like!
I love it!
I love authentic Turkish delight, and this choc tastes absolutely nothing like it. I'll eat it if there's nothing else left.
For me the worst candy I've ever tasted is musk sticks, as a kid it reminded me of kissing aunties wearing too much make up. Thought they went out in the 80s-90s but Coles is still selling these. Yuck.
reminded me of kissing aunties wearing too much make up
Dat imagery.
Also, remember the Fads lollies? I use to buy these thinking they were cool and to troll the teachers on playground duty into thinking I was having a smoke in broad daylight.Haha yep they were called something slightly different when I was a kid though. The 80s were a lot less PC than today
How about Big Boss Candy Sticks?
Now that I think about it, the consistency, texture and surface of those things seems highly disturbing.
And just look at that 1920's, Al Capone-esque gangster on the packaging; you'll be pulling a 23 skidoo on those pesky teacher crum-bums in no time.
they were called FAGS in my day!!
And there was also chocolate cigarettes…a guy tried to bum one off my sister one day, he got all confused when we pointed out that they were chocolate. She was about 10 at the time. I think she was pretty chuffed she'd had someone fooled.
they were great, came in little packs like the soft pack Camels.
Fags they were called. The new Fads dont have the little pink end to look like a lit cigarette.
Thank you, I will never eat a Musk stick again
I can't believe the description they give:
"Pink coloured extruded sugar paste sticks flavoured with musk flavour."
Extruded sugar paste stick? Coles needs a new marketing person.
I love me some extruded sugar paste stick. Goes well with a frozen non-dairy emulsion from McDonalds.
musk sticks are great!
I love Musk sticks. I won't eat a whole pack of them but I'd have one every now and then.
As to the OP, I dislike the chocolate bar turkish delight you get in supermarkets so always thought I hated turkish delight. Then I tried the real thing and it's great. Ditto with liquorice.
Why does it exist? Are you a witch? Do you wish to tempt impressionable boys into betraying their siblings?
"Then I tried the real thing and it's great"
I've been looking for the real thing for years, the trouble is the dogs sniff out the hashish…
I like Turkish delight. I also like Vegemite straight out of the jar.
Why does white chocolate even exist, is the better question.
This is addressed in the work Chocolate: The Consuming Passion (Boynton, 1982)
and anyway, Carob (what's the deal with that?)
There is even an obscure report on why Chocolate is recommended by dentists.
I don't even want to know what a Chocolate Bilby is…
why do they call it ovaltine? the mug is round, the jar is round, they should call it roundtine.
That's gold, khao! Gold!
Aside from the Ovaltine powder, they also sell Ovaltine lollies which are definitely oval in shape..
We have bought chocolate Bilbies for about 30 years at Easter as I hate bunnies in Aus, and the funding supports the research program.
not all choc bilbies donate money only certain brands.
I used to like white chocolate. Until I tried couverture chocolate when I studied bakery, the kind that patissiers used to make premium stuff with.
It's spoiled Cadbury for me. Callebaut is amazing.
Cadbury spoiled Cadbury for you, me, the dog (kidding) and everyone else.
Gleefully assisted by one J.W. Howard, who circa 1998 snuck through FSANZ reforms to definitions of certain processed foods. Fruit yoghurt could contain less fruit and yoghurt; they could pump in more vegetable gums and other fillers.
It applied to chocolate too, meaning they could get away with less cocoa mass and milk solids.
Glass and a half — pigs arse!Whittakers (NZ) or Lindt > Cadbury chocolate.
Yup, good ole' Honest John.
Definitely agree with above, Whittakers is better than Cadbury
yep, same with tinned food, check the amount of tuna in tins - they used to have to have something like 80% but it was changed to be any amount as long as its labels (Greenseas/ John West is about55%). Bread is the same, wholemeal bread can now be nearly all white flour and only a hint of wholemeal. And ice cream used to be a certain amount of dairy now anything can be called ice cream.
Also bugs me when Maccas etc say Choc or Mayo as it isnt chocolate or mayonaise but they hint via the name that it is.
I think better question would be, why does everything I don't like exist? The answer is, there are number of people out there who likes them to make them profitable to make. (Or other reasons relating to profits)
aaand /thread
Why do people who take things too seriously exist?
Because people like me fails at being humourous/informative at the same time. It was funny and not insulting in my head, I swear :P
I'm no expert in TQM but they probably worked out that it was more profitable to make things more cheaply and in larger quantities so that everyone could afford them.
Also, if you slowly lower the quality of your products, most consumers won't know the difference. Slowly shrink the packaging. Add more filler. Redesign the packaging. All tricks of the trade used to improve your bottom line.
@scrimshaw: My uncle ,who owns several factories, once told me, the secret behind business success is price, price and price.
Your comment just reminded me that. :P
Of course. But he never told you what PRICE. (Higher or Lower?)
He, like good marketeers, just let the message reflect what you want it to.
BTW no charge for that bit of advice.
@RockyRaccoon: :P He went on for 20 minutes on how keeping the cost low and thus being able to reduce price for the consumer was important, but we will let it pass. :P
@AznMitch: Sorry can't pass too much, what about Apple, BMW, French Fashion houses etc.
Guess it depends on the positioning. Price doesn't seem to be helping most Android and Nokia phone companies.
But with Food companies having to deal with the supermarket duopoly here in Australia, that market has a very different dynamic :)
@RockyRaccoon: Veblen goods. :P I can be a conventional economist and say that they are exceptions to normal goods… but I am not. It's just that if I start talking about those, it gets messy. Real messy.
The companies you've mentioned rely on brand power and people's assumptions. I argue that those companies rely on conspicuous consumptions to some extent. Though that being said people usually assume price = quality to certain degree as well. In short, it is complex, I don't want to write an essay on a forum since most people would go TL;DR.
But, that being said, the companies you've mentioned cut cost. Apple has the highest profit margin in smartphone industry, suggesting that they produce smartphones cheaper than other producers. Apple haven't put more RAMs into their new smartphone, some people say that 1GB is enough, but you cannot argue that in 2GB vs 1GB, 1GB is the cheaper option. Companies tries to cut cost all the time to maximise profit.
My uncle is a factory owner, he does OEM. After the product meets the qualification, cutting cost is the name of the game.
Also, if you slowly lower the quality of your products, most consumers won't know the difference. Slowly shrink the packaging. Add more filler. Redesign the packaging. All tricks of the trade used to improve your bottom line.
Kinda like Wagon Wheels? I don't know how in the wild west they got anything done with those teeny tiny wagons.
Sky rockets in flight. Turkish delight
Real Turkish Delight, known as Lokum, is this stuff and it's typically made from pistachios, hazelnuts, walnuts, or dates.
It bares no resemblance to the purple jelly sh*t coated in chocolate, that takes like a Musk stick.
That purple jelly shit is awesome. And so are musk sticks.
I have never heard of Turkish delight jelly being referred to as similar in taste to musk sticks? Am I having a revelation? I hate musk sticks but love Turkish delight!
Yum! Where can you buy those here?
Your best bet is one of those small ethnic delis/bakeries/markets; a specifically Turkish one would be ideal, but Lokum is eaten all over South-Eastern Europe as well, so a Serbian/Bosnian/Macedonian/Greek one could also potentially have it (though everyone has their own name for it, it might not always been known as Lokum).
I get mine from a Serbian small goods store; there are usually two kinds, the preserved, packaged kind which comes in rectangular boxes and the fresh, made-on-the-premises kind as well, which looks more like the ones in that photo.
Middle Eastern small goods shops may also do Lokum or something similiar to it; Iranian or Lebanese places if you can find them would be worth a shot, but given there are more South-Eastern European migrants in Australia, shops run by migrants from those places you'd be more likely to find.
yeah, that real stuff is yuck I think
Because turks
I don't mind it. I think it would be better with a darker chocolate though.
In our house the Turkish delight and cherry ripe aren't touched.
This should be a poll rather than a complaint..
Cadbury's Turkish Delight is my favourite of the Cadbury favourites.
I don't like Crunchie or Cherry Ripe.
You heard me.
And mine, well along with Twirl….and I absolutely don't like Cherry Ripe either!
violet crumble is better the crunchie by a mile.
Cherry ripe was good - then they brought out cherry ripe dark, then did away with the milk chocolate one and took "dark" off the label. It happened around the time they shoved palm oil in the chocolate, then apologised and promised to remove it within nine months.
Again, they did - from the label. it's now called something else :-(
I love them.!
Send them to me too!
You can include Cherry Ripes in this list also. Awful Chocolate
why can't a basic faviuritrs box just have
*Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate
*Caramello
*Crunchie
*Picnic
*BoostBecause different people like different things…AMAZING!
I would much rather have Cherry Ripe and Turkish Delight than Boost, as would every single person in my family.I hate boost. Find them so boring
Well I'm just gonna be a bit controversial and say I hate Crunchies too. They're always the last left in our box. And there is a special place in hell reserved for Picnics. I worked in a convenience store for 6 years and not once did I sell a picnic.
If you're going to play " throw the chocolate bar in the drunk's bed" game, a picnic works so much better than a mars bar [ evil cackle]
I thought everyone liked it. Weird.
its not my fave, but its still good
I thought like you Whitecane, then I took a few boxes of the Favourites to work and a couple of the freaks there had a fight over it…. Just like you, I was amazed ;-/
Hey OP, I think you need to run a poll around this important issue.
This made me laugh so hard. Totally agree OP
How the hell can anyone call black liquorice a treat? I have tried it once….ONCE.
The taste was so horrible I can still shadowtaste it…
same.
and cherry ripes. tried once….
You should definitely stay away from Dutch licorice, then. That stuff is regular licorice on steroids. Probably the saltiest experience I have ever had.
Why do ugly people exist?
I mean really, have you ever stopped to think about it? No one would mate with them so they should've all died out by now. Where are they coming from?
Va… I mean from the place where storks fly from. That makes me wonder, do storks have stork storks that carries stork babies?
if there weren't ugly people then you wouldn't have beautiful people as you need the entire spectrum.
and also someone to laugh at.
Where are they coming from?
State housing provides fertile breeding grounds for the symmetrically-challenged.
explain Gina Rhinehart then
She fell from the stork who was on their way to delivery her and hit every branch of the ugly tree along the way… finally landing on Lang Hancock's doorstep.
She was okay in the 70s. I'd have hit it. Twice.
More recently she let herself go and became obese. She'd look miles better if she lost half her mass.
I think it's her outlook that's truly ugly.
sometimes I eat the Turkish delights first to improve the quality of the chocs left in the box as a self sacrifice.
Are we seriously complaint about the lollies ?
Yes we are seriously complaint about the lollies.
Are you serial
Actually Turkish Delight is my favourite Favourite.
Turkish Delight is probably the best out of them all. I always go for it before any of the others.
LOL this is clearly a Publicity Stunt (PR) for Turkish Delight chockies.. LOL
it may as well have been called 'Jello-Delight'Dieters love TD as they are the lowest calorie chocolate bar.
I put Turkish Delight in the freezer because I like the little snap the chocolate coating does when I bite it
hahaha this topic is hillarious, read all the comments and it reminded me of a few years ago when i put up this picture on my facebook http://postimg.org/image/3of9rap3z/ with the title top to bottom, best to worst. Mannnn, everybody had something to say!! most controversial thing ive ever said apparently :s
I'd rather eat the towel than half of them.
thats crazy, this is completely wrong order. Fix it now.
for awesome Turkish delight, go to Ibrahim Pastry in Rockdale.
I stopped by Turkey on a holiday and literally got hounded by peddlers trying to sell the stuff.
Turkish Delights are great. Also they remind me of the way I like to have my steak. Similar colour and texture :)
Lol, probably cause you're not turkish
Can't stand liquorish though
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its a well kept secret , you pretend you dont like them , others follow suit , no one eats them , you get to enjoy them all !!!