Sweets Uncovered

During my weekend in London, I experienced another first: Cadbury chocolate. Let me tell you, as a person who does not even like chocolate very much, this is one of the most delicious substances I have ever tasted. From now on, I’m boycotting Hershey’s; it would just be a disappointment. The best way to describe the “Cadbury difference” is that it is so much creamier. I never realized now much American chocolate tastes like wax until I ate this stuff. You just take a little square on your tongue and let it melt into velvety goodness inside the heat of your mouth. Mmmm. Chewing it would be like sacrilege.

This brings me to a Big Question. While the four of us—Flannery and Kate (the London flatmates) and Grace (the visitor from Nahant)—indulged ourselves in Cadbury decadence, we began to discuss other “British sweets.” Surprisingly, all of us agreed upon one we absolutely had to try: Turkish delight. Why? Because after reading/seeing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, all of us had a burning desire to taste the sweet that was so good that Edmund would betray all of his siblings for it.

C.S. Lewis may have written the novel to promote Christianity, but the four of us decided that he also must have also been paid off by a candy company. Because after reading that book, you know there was only one question on every child’s mind: “What is Turkish delight?”