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1 posted on 11/09/2025 10:05:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

whoever makes it....it’s good!


2 posted on 11/09/2025 10:09:33 AM PST by ealgeone
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That stuff made properly is VERY good. Go by G-Bob’s Grille in Austin, TX and ask Gabe for some baklava.


3 posted on 11/09/2025 10:09:52 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve been to Greece and Turkey. It’s a great dessert in both places.

That was long ago, before I stopped eating wheat and sugar.


5 posted on 11/09/2025 10:28:41 AM PST by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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When did the Greeks and Turks not find something to fight about??


6 posted on 11/09/2025 10:34:36 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: nickcarraway

Note to the Turks of Anatolia. The folks of Anatolia were making Baklava in Anatolia - modern day Turkey - for centuries before the Turks arrived and those in Anatolia at the time were speaking and writing Greek - not Turkish.

Note to the Turks of Anatolia - quit steeling the life and customs of the land you now occupy, life and customs of the land long before you got there.


8 posted on 11/09/2025 11:03:46 AM PST by Wuli ( )
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Baklava is Greek, of course!

I’ve eaten it at Greek festivals, and in my Serbian church!

When I visited an Islamic country in 2003—NO baklava (but delicious coffee)!


9 posted on 11/09/2025 11:11:57 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh this is hilarious!

I’m just landing Seattle now after being in Turkey for 8 day, two years ago it was Greece for eight days…

Both make good Baklava but my gut says it’s origins are Greek for sure lol

Last month I was at Tarpon Springs FL and that little Greek sponge diving town has some great Baklava too!


10 posted on 11/09/2025 11:20:35 AM PST by gettinolder
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Considering that one people have been native to the area for thousands of years as part of a sophisticated urban culture, and the other are descendants of nomadic horsemen invading from the steppes of Central Asia, and others they enslaved along the way, I think the Greeks invented it.


11 posted on 11/09/2025 11:48:01 AM PST by katana
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Ping!


12 posted on 11/09/2025 2:46:08 PM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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It’s about the only dessert I don’t like. Not a fan of honey.


13 posted on 11/09/2025 3:05:24 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: nickcarraway

Then it must be from Cyprus!


15 posted on 11/09/2025 3:11:55 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Whatever...I cannot brag or lie..but just about everyone who gets to try my Baklava (or Paklava) says it is the best they’ve ever had...sorry...but that’s what they say....not me...
But there are many variations in how the phyllo dough is baked, the shape, the syrup....so lots of room for experimentation and flavor...


16 posted on 11/09/2025 4:24:56 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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