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Re:Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake u... by smacktoward on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @12:20PM (#14043201)
It's not that real-world Turkish delight is bad, per se, so much as that Lewis makes it sound so life-changingly incredible that the real-world version is bound to disappoint by comparison.
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Re:Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake u... by manarth on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:11PM (#14045173)
On the one hand, it was mind-numbingly delicious because of the White Witch's magic making it incredibly addictive, rather than simply the virtue of being Turkish delight.

But why the choice of Turkish delight? A combination of status-signalling and unavailability [1] (post-WW2 sugar-rationing was still in effect when the book was written).

[1] http://www.tor.com/2016/08/08/why-was-turkish-delight-the-ul...

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Re:Horlicks, a drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake u... by walshemj on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:12PM (#14046118)
Don't forget that CS Lewis was writing for a UK audience that still had rationing for sweets when published.

Turkish Delight was /Is a common UK Christmas time treat.

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