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I am turkish, but never heard greek delight. Greek coffee, greek manti i heard it all, but not delight. Gotta love the hate that shows up in the food names. Ot
by tehlike 9y ago
I am turkish, but never heard greek delight. Greek coffee, greek manti i heard it all, but not delight.
Gotta love the hate that shows up in the food names. Otherwise, i guess we like each other :)
- coldtea 9y agoI've never heard of "Greek delight" either. In Greece it's just called "lukum". Could be just how it is marketed to tourists at airport shops and such (since, why would they buy something labeled as "turkish delight" when they are in Greece? They'd rather buy something they consider local to experience). For the coffee thing, it's not particularly any hate -- people just know this coffee for ages, from when they were kids, as the major domestic variety, so they call it like that. The same happens all over the Balkans, they call it X coffee in most countries X. That said, I think it's a general beverage that comes from the middle east / arab countries in general (Wikipedia says it originated in Yemen, existed in Egypt, etc before getting popular elsewhere), rather than something particularly Turkish, just that the Turkish branded it first.