Turkey has their TURKISH DELIGHTS! Are there any GREEK DELIGHTS?

Question

I am talking about candies, pasteries and festive foods!

Answer 1

There are sooo many!
Some Christmas ones : Kourambiethes, melomakarona, thiples.
Ipovrihio
Fruit, Flower and vegetable spoon sweets, big on spoon sweets!
Halva- semolina, Farsalon and the Makethonia type. (now as well as the mpaklava some are eastern and Greek mix/origin)
Galktompoureko
Rizogalo
Trigona Thessalonikis
Ravani
Samali
Halvathopita
Skaltsounia
Loukoumathes
Tsoureki
Tigani'tes (of my grnadmother with powdered sugar)
Many regions of Greece have their own special sweets too.
Apricot Pestille- fruit roll - I am eating this right now!! I can send you some. Seriously!

The above are just a few, about one third of the Greek delights we have!
Oh, blunt I run, did you try the Metaxa15 Star? Very nice !!!
Speaking of drinks, there is this "secret" delight then, a wine? from Crete. It is buried under ground for at least 15 years. Brought out on special occasions. When I tried a few sips of this once, I thought this taste could not be described like anything I had ever tasted! I describe it as the Ambrosia in ancient Greek History. The nectar being that of the flowers, and Nectar and Ambrosia was the Gods' food.

Answer 2

As cpinatsi states it is not Turkish delight. It is loukoum or loukoumi
The term Turkish delight comes from the English/or English speaking soldiers during the last two WW, especially the First one when they were stationed there and to distinguish it they named it Turkish delight, to distinguish the origin. Perhaps other connotations apply to the term. But who can question the humour of English?

Answer 3

because most of their foods or drinls were copied from Turkish kitchen during when Greeks was under controll of Ottoman empire.

Answer 4

The Greeks eat a vanilla type paste (full of sugar) at the bottom of a glass of water. Really sweet!
If you like very sugary desserts - then everything will be a 'delight' for you!

Answer 5

Mezap Halva is very nice.
A greek speciality is Phyllo or Filo, a paper-thin pastry made with layers of butter. It is often combined with nuts, syrups and honey.
Amigdelota, almond cookies
Melomakarona, "honey macaroons", cookies soaked in syrup of honey (meli in Greek thus melomakarona) and sugar, topped with walnuts and almonds, also traditional during Christmas.

Answer 6

The Greek people are very well know for being very sexually...freakey baby! Obviously, that would be a delight to some. Greek chef's are also typically VERY skilled in culinary delights.

Answer 7

You are about to start a war over delights. :D The reason being, the Greek Cypriots registered lokum (Turkish delight) as a Greek Cypriot dessert. They claim you cannot take ownership over food and then go on to take ownership over lokum. Go figure.

I won't go into who owns what, but I have to say that I find this policy of EU quite ridiculous and it's getting more and more ridiculous in time.

I may start producing champagne to protest it. Turkey not being a member of EU, they can't do anything about it, either.

That said, I know Metaxa as a gorgeous Greek drink, especially the 7-star version. It isn't sweet, but what the heck, it makes life sweet.

Answer 8

What is known as Turkish delight is in Turkish, as in Greek, called loukoum, and it is a sweet that is made traditionally both in Greece and Turkey, such as other sweets too, like baklava, etc. So it is not strictly speaking Turkish delight, not even in the Turkish language.