maraş dondurması - Turkish non-melting icecream, one of the foods I gotta try someday!

It's troo! An icecream that doesn't melt! And in the case of maraş dondurması, a specialty of the Kahramanmaraş region, it's so tough and sticky that they eat it with a knife and fork! In fact, you can apparently play jump-rope with it. O.o

Lies you say? Nu! Nu lies! The resin from an orchid, which is a main ingredient, is responsible for the gooey taffy stickiness of doom!

Nice article on Salon.com with lots of details (but sadly no peektures), including - importantly! - how it tastes.

Interesting video about how it's made, but it's all in Turkish, without subtitles. :( Towards the end bit (10:00 and 13:00) you get to see the sticky gooey goodness in action though.

Someday I will be able to plan my hollydays far enuff in advance to go try this stuff...

Obvious student is obvious. Or should that be oblivious?

Another nice turn of phrase extracted from a CE217 assignment:

Health bar replenishment objects replenish health

Now you say it, it seems so obvious...

 

Also see...
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2011/QBlog030111B.html
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2011/QBlog020111C.html
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2010/QBlog311210B.html

^_^ I love it when Bartle marks papers.