Comments on: Another childhood ideal eviscerated by brutal reality http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/ Mon, 21 May 2012 20:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Editrix http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3366 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:39:29 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3366 "Gastronaut" is my new favorite neologism! “Gastronaut” is my new favorite neologism!

]]> by: Terri http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3365 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:43:09 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3365 Instead of gastronome, this sounds like gastronot... Does that make you, for braving the unknown, a gastronaut? (Sorry...) You are a braver woman than I. Instead of gastronome, this sounds like gastronot… Does that make you, for braving the unknown, a gastronaut? (Sorry…) You are a braver woman than I.

]]> by: 2fs http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3352 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:37:42 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3352 Lewis (C.S.) was British. That says it all. I believe the definitive word on British candies is Thomas Pynchon's, somewhere in <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>. It's devastatingly hilarious in its depiction of the horror that is the British confectioner's craft. Lewis (C.S.) was British. That says it all. I believe the definitive word on British candies is Thomas Pynchon’s, somewhere in Gravity’s Rainbow. It’s devastatingly hilarious in its depiction of the horror that is the British confectioner’s craft.

]]> by: Ezra http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3351 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:08:20 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3351 You know, I think I thought it was sort of like an ice cream sundae, but made out of astronaut ice cream and topped with whipped cream. And it tasted slightly of licorice. You know, I think I thought it was sort of like an ice cream sundae, but made out of astronaut ice cream and topped with whipped cream. And it tasted slightly of licorice.

]]> by: LLA http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3350 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:25 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3350 It's so funny - I think so many kids had these grand dreams of what Turkish Delight was... I remember thinking that it must be like those little white square candies that you would occasionally receive at Halloween. They were individually wrapped, and a white, chewy nougat thing which were liberally studded with little colorful jelly bits. I'm not sure why I thought that's what it was, since I don't remember particularly liking them. I think I thought that they were fancy. And kind of special. And they seemed like something that British kids would like... (or at least what an elementary-aged Hillbilly kid *thought* a British kid would like, since it would be years and years before I met anyone who had ever even been to England....) It’s so funny - I think so many kids had these grand dreams of what Turkish Delight was… I remember thinking that it must be like those little white square candies that you would occasionally receive at Halloween. They were individually wrapped, and a white, chewy nougat thing which were liberally studded with little colorful jelly bits.

I’m not sure why I thought that’s what it was, since I don’t remember particularly liking them. I think I thought that they were fancy. And kind of special. And they seemed like something that British kids would like… (or at least what an elementary-aged Hillbilly kid *thought* a British kid would like, since it would be years and years before I met anyone who had ever even been to England….)

]]> by: Ezra http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3347 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:00:45 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/06/another-childhood-ideal-eviscerated-by-brutal-reality/#comment-3347 That'll teach you to trust a Christian. I should have pointed you to this: http://www.slate.com/id/2131903/ <blockquote cite="http://www.slate.com/id/2131903/"> At Christmas nearly a decade ago, an aged Englishman gave me a choice gift, one that I'd fantasized about since the age of 7 after reading C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. It was a box of Turkish Delight...And so, with anticipation, I took a bite of the Turkish Delight. And a second later, spat it into my hand. It tasted like soap rolled in plaster dust, or like a lump of Renuzit air freshener: The texture was both waxy and filling-looseningly chewy. This … this? ... was the sweetmeat that led Edmund to betray his siblings and doomed Aslan to death on a stone slab? </blockquote> That’ll teach you to trust a Christian.

I should have pointed you to this:
http://www.slate.com/id/2131903/

At Christmas nearly a decade ago, an aged Englishman gave me a choice gift, one that I’d fantasized about since the age of 7 after reading C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. It was a box of Turkish Delight…And so, with anticipation, I took a bite of the Turkish Delight. And a second later, spat it into my hand. It tasted like soap rolled in plaster dust, or like a lump of Renuzit air freshener: The texture was both waxy and filling-looseningly chewy. This … this? … was the sweetmeat that led Edmund to betray his siblings and doomed Aslan to death on a stone slab?

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