My personal stash.Turkish delight is one of my very favourite candies (and I'm a candy girl, do what you will with that information). However, many people doubt its delicious-ness. Fools! It's so gooey and sugary and diabetes-enticing, what's not to like? Plus, um, named after a country? C'mon! All we've got in terms of a confectonary cultural comparison are Beaver Tails. (Side note: perhaps we should rename poutine "Canadian delight"?)
Here are some facts about Turkish delight (thanks Wikipedia!):
- not to be confused with Turkish Taffy (originally sold in stores in large sheets which were broken off with hammers at the counter and sold by weight).
- It used to be called "lumps of delight" (again, do what you will with that information).
- Turkish Delight is the addictive confection to which Edmund succumbs to in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Real Turkish Delight is not to be confused with the chocolate bar Big Turk — they are nothing alike.
Informative, no?
In other news...I was marking a students paper tonight, an ESL student, not that I'm trying to be racist, it's just that, well, they're often make the most challenging papers to mark. Anyway, she wrote this little essay about working for LA Weight Loss and said that the companies "brand advisor was Whoopi Goldbery". At first I was like, "what's a brand advisor?" and then I relized she meant "brand ambassador" and then I was like, "who is Whoopi Goldbery?" and realized that she meant Whoopi GoldBERG. There was that and the other part of the piece where she refers to someone's grandma as "the old lady who raised her in home".
In other news...I just NOW watched Jon Stewart's interview with Jim Cramer, which I had recorded earlier in the week. Freeeeking brilliant. It's here in a condensed version if you please.
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