What the heck is 'Turkish Delight'?

It's very strange.

This queen and the kid both talk about 'turkish delights' as if they're some kind of optimal food of grand deliciousness that everyone should know about. They take it for granted that everyone knows what those are, and that's the only food they talk about in the ice queen scene near the beginning.

But why 'turkish delights'?? What are they?? Why would the makers of this cartoon assume that everyone knows what they are? Is this some kind of world-class delicacy or known treat?

Why not just talk about 'delicious food' and why not have an assortment of 'all kinds'? The faun's offerings come closer to understandable - everyone understands what 'cake' is.

But 'Turkish delights'? Are we supposed to relate to this somehow? What is this?

So strange.. the queen and her behaviour (and voice acting) is also very very strange indeed.

I remember watching this cartoon in the eighties and crying about the Lion and his shaved head a lot back in the day - it's hard to believe how fast the time goes and how long ago that was. Now that I am watching this again after at least three and a half decades (or more), I can't remember any of this, and it all seems very weird.

As a sidenote; I was startled to notice that Lucy's crying (when no one believes her in the beginning) was EXACTLY the same as someone's (would be funny if it was also Lucy) crying in the Peanuts cartoons. Then I remembered, ah.. same director. Did they shamelessly reuse their audio this way??