Yeah the subtext of why Edmund in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was willing to have his family murdered in return for Turkish delight is that the UK was undergoing sugar rationing in WWII and candy was enormously expensive; he probably hadn't eaten any sugar in yearshttps://twitter.com/matryoshka_core/status/1345596464022646790 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh wow, I never thought of that. I had just assumed he was a little shit with no sense of consequences (as kids often are), seeing as Turkish delight is pretty damn unimpressive.
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing
I mean she asks him to pick *any* candy in the world he wants and he picks Turkish delight, so it is still a matter of different tastes
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