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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Turkish Delight in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 15:04:04 -0400
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Lenona wrote:
> I found this at r/cooking. It brought up a couple of points I had never
> thought of!
> 
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/1kgiu8u/whats_the_most_overrated_dish_youve_ever_tried/ 

Turkish delight is mentioned, with some disgust, in a Peter Wimsey 
novel.  It is used as a vehicle for poisoning.

We may assume that Dorothy Sayers didn't like it much, but this we 
before the WWII sugar shortages.

William Hyde