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  • OK for all you Fry's fans out there my old Gran used to be the house maid for Miss Fry who lived at Over Wallop in Hampshire UK.

    Back in '62 I had a short stay in hospital for an eye op. Always remember it because in comes Miss Fry with not 1 but 2 carrier bag fulls of white chocolate and the pièce de résistance a rare "black" battery Dalek that bumps into things and goes off in another direction with flashing light. And to top it all I've still got it, but the chocolate got eaten long ago :))

  • Fuck me, people will argue about anything. Arguing about the authenticity of an advert from the 80's. Everything was cheesy as fuck from the 80's. Come on people we're better than this. :D

  • Eastern promise: broken :3

    Also, how the hell does someone stay that clean and un-tanned in the freaking desert!?

  • hahaha turks are not arab this advert is funny

  • Turkey has the best Kebabs & food in general in this part of the world.  Greek, Persian, Egyptian Cuisine ect. None of it compares to Turkish dishes. Best Baklava is Turkish of course.

  • @TSdlight

    I really don't get this southern europe and middle eastern national superiority about food :P

    "Greek food is the best, Lebanese is crap"

    "Turkish is the best, everyone elses is crap"

    "Spanish is the best, Italian and greek is crap."

    well because I'm feeling left out...

    Australian Pavlova is the best. The New Zealanders are only good for cheap imitations of the real thing... alsopharlap :3

  • Turkish people do not speak Arabic, they speak Turkish. Arabic is spoken only in N. Africa & Gulf Region.

  • As a turk i loved this advert its pure romantisism and fakery but who cares for turks complaining that its fake yea its not meant to be a bloody tourism video, i mean ive never seen a turk that handsome they are normaly 5 foot 2 with a big black moustache so stop bloody moaning.

  • how the hell did I end up here..? o.o

  • Turkish delights have shrunk dramatically since this ad!

  • Orientalism at its chocolatey best! ha ha

  • this advert was gravitas and pure romantic you basicaly can

    listen to this tune and fall a sleep because it was soothingly

    refreshing but in whole this advert now plays great on a big flatscreen tv

    so you can imagining this being played at the cinema it's just pure drama at the time and arabic is a language in most regions of turkey and egypt and also

    theres a region in egypt called arabia watch the film lawrence of arabia to find

    out its just like cairo a region of egypt.

  • they brought it back in 2007 for a while

    and in 2009 they brought back the 80's milkyway advert

    the one where the red car challenged the blue car for a race

    along the canyon remember that. but i would love to know

    the name of this tune and who composed it.

  • I used to think this ad was so exotic when I was a kid :$

  • @SamLeona Yeah me too! I love the music though, it really is a sultry 80s sound.................

  • if you don't know the difference between a Turk and an Arab just don't make an advertisement.here there is no desert,people don't wear such things(i don't want to even mention sword at all)and this product is not the real Turkish delight.everything is fake in ad.

  • @43dreamlover

    if that were the case they would've being wrapped up an a court case

    for making false claims so in order to solve that they had to make the advert authentic

    in the style of cecil b demil's productions of the ten commandments and 7th voyage of sinbad

    so it would have made to believed that it was discoverd in a turkish dessert and as for the sword was added for the drama of the ad lastly the bar was precut prior to the dramatic sword scene.

  • @43dreamlover who gives a fuck. that woman is beautiful. who is she???

  • @43dreamlover Well to the western world, we imagine Turkey and the entire middle east as visions of Arabian nights, with camels, and clothing like in Alladin, thats the vision we are brought up with and it has a sense of romanticism, the add is for the western world and it works.

    Would you rather they show islamic people executing gay men and launching missles at the west and raping women? Didnt think so, because if they filmed how it really is, they wouldnt sell!

  • @43dreamlover The advert is like 30 years old, quit ya noise! It's a classic!

  • fucking. . . HUH?

  • fucking. . . HUH?

  • heyyy turks arent arabs ok the video look like arabs but delight is ours

  • @2vkys2 Most Westerners don't know the difference. To be completely honest I didn't know Turks weren't Arab but I am glad you said something, that's something new I've learned.

  • it is not Olga Fedori aka Frieda Petrenko off holby city as she would have 2 be in about her 40s now also Contains the following allergens- milk and possible traces of nuts and soya. Suitable for Vegetarians but not Vegans

  • Phwoar, fancied her since I was about 4 years old....hadnt realised it was Frida from Holby city though ;)

  • I can't eat these (I'm a vegetarian), but I remember this ad well.

    So cool.

  • @Jarren202 as far as I know there are no animal products in the real turkish delight. may be you can not eat this shitty one, but you can eat the real turkish delight.

  • @aporia82 Yes indeed! My brother-in-law brought some back from Turkey, and they're delicious...

    ...unlike this product, which is basically rose flavoured gelatine covered in dark chocolate.

  • @Jarren202 I agree, I just came back from an Iranian cake shop in Ealing with some proper turkish delight and its amazing, pistachio flavour. BTW that sweet is not limited to Turkey and the only reason its called Turkish delight is that we Brits think all Arabs/Persians look like Turks!!!

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  • @1Thompsonmusic I don't think it's racist at all.

  • Main aim of the ad as most ad's is to arouse curiosity and try their product. I think they have succeded. Even if you bought the Fry's Turkish Delight bar and hated it,they have won or the ad is succesfull as in the least it made you part with your money for the bar to taste. And that's whole point i think.

  • @OFFENDOR .....like me. Try n finish your sentence.

  • Walnut whip!

  • Tastes like washing up liquid :S

  • @OFFENDOR

    No,i dont mean Fox's glacier mints and neither polo mints before you mention it although i can see a resemblance with a mint with a hole and your head. Cant you read!

  • Wow they should have made a 2 hour movie of them just walking around the desert I'd watch it

  • I don't understand the meaning of the video , I'm self Turkish but what is the movie about a Turkish gum or ?

  • @OFFENDOR

    Muslims sweets... No wonder its one of the longest running ads spanning over nearly 3 decades and thats just this version. However, i heard a new version of another Fry's sweet ad is coming out soon but this time for people like you, it will be done in Iceland in the snow with a Polar Bear. Hope you enjoy the colourfull ad and let's see how long it lasts.

  • @cr1scros

    How can it be muslim, its made by Cadburys which is British. Its been around about a hundred years

  • @SuperSimonuk It was British untill they sold out to American Company, Kraft, in 2009, a great Shame that.

  • <3

  • @ezmereldagreen -- ha ha ha!! :D

  • Who's the man in this? He has pretty eyes.

  • This vid just looks like an 80s music vid like something Duran Duran or ABC would do.

  • Her makeup looks good!

  • Full of Eastern Promise......and Western Dissapointment???

  • i loved this when i was little and wish i hadnt watched it..they look demented.

  • Always hated these ads. LOL never made sense to me when I was a kid. Plus I didn't like them back then.

  • Real Turkish Delight is made from crushed beetles!!

  • The model Vivienne Lynn of English/Japanese decent in this ad is now 55 years old and her name after marriage is Vivienne Tribbeck.

  • @cr1scros She was pretty and exotic then, cool.

  • Middle east this, ottoman empire that. ITS A FUCKING ADVERT FROM NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO! what the fuck is the matter with people on YouTube. A bit of nostalgia, can we just leave it at that!

  • is there a turkish desert? -.-

  • @yassinesoufy1988 Well it was created by the Turkish Ottoman Empire, not just Turkey, which included most of the Middle east and eastern europe. So in that sense it is fine to use a desert setting.

  • I stumbled across this ad .Saw it first like most as a child and didn't think much of it then.But when i see it now..WOW,Vivienne Lynn, i think of english and chinese decent,in the ad looks stunningly beautifull.Blissfull music too. I read somwhere it was shot in London back then and Vivienne Westwood designed the clothes both actors wore.Also Vivienne Lynn after the ad was made, went on to be editor of cosmopolitan for some time.I agree,best tv ad ever.Timeless classic.

  • it was the greatest tv advert of all time and they

    braught it back in 2007 i think because i remember

    seeing the advert on tv during and advert break

    for a tv show but great classic advert .

  • The first time I tasted Turkish Delight, I cried too.

  • You morons. The woman is sitting in the middle of the Arabian desert, crying and waiting for her fellow to return back from Turkey, with a bar of Fry's Turkish Delight. lol

    The reason why Fry's Turkish Delight tastes rubbish is because it is made somewhere up M6 or M1 and NOT in Turkey. If it was made in Turkey...you would be having an ORGASM. lol

  • @TIREONE Also the Middle East was owned by the Ottoman Empire so it was part of the Turkish empire.

  • @TIREONE

    If it was made in turkey the same way they make it anywhere else it would still taste like crap :P

    Now if they made Turkish delight instead of making imitation rosewater-flavoured jelly and CALLING it turkish delight THEN many orgasms would be had.

  • TOP

    

  • That is a class ad, not like todays bullshit

  • @mailwin72

    i totally agree on that one lols

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  • Jeff wayne did the advert and the voice over at the end is indeed Ian Mcshane.

  • Is that Kiefer Sutherland doing the voice over at the end?

  • @choaty5 I doubt it, this was a British advert from the early 80s!

  • My BF says she knew there was no justice in the world when Texan bars were scrapped and Frys Turkish Delight was kept.

    It's just jelly in cheap chocolate

  • Does anyone think that Madonna's video for "Frozen" is a rip off of this wonderful advert or is it just me??? lol

  • homoseksuel lawvrens

  • this was the greates tv advert ever and

    i loved that tune they don't make great ads like this anymore

    but i will love to see a new version of this ad with the same

    tune and setting just like the original pure class.

  • sounds like 'Lovejoy' at the end!?

  • Why is he dressed like an Arab and why there is a desert behind, do not confuse Arabs and Turkish-_-

  • @lazchildren17 Look up the Ottoman Empire which invented Turkish delight. They were Arabs and Turks.

    The middle east was part of the Turkish Empire.

  • Classic ad bringing back some 80's memories

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  • @soulkatofficial-Agreed,i'd give anything for a Cabana.If i remember rightly,they had caramel in too.Chocolate manna from heaven.

  • Do you remember CABANAS? like a bounty bar with cherry in the middle

    used to love those

  • I always used to want to winky her when I was young

  • Real Turkish Delight doesn't have chocolate all over it - it has caster sugar and usually contains nuts (and it is very sickly). Also, Jeff Wayne did the music for this :)

  • I' m41+ this is70 s - NOT80 s+ yes it' s Egyptian delight+ not Turkish. BUT, Fry' s called- it that. Ooops!

  • Sorry - this is70 s. NOT80 s+ yes it' s Egyptian delight+ not Turkish. Ooops!

  • its still being sold now and to be honest it tastes horribe, yukky texture and plastic flavour.

  • I can understand why the Anglo-Turkish community are aggrieved at this unrealistic portrayal.

    In reality,the young lady in the commercial would be round the side of the sand dune,stood in a pool of camel urine getting pumped by Dave,whilst our Turkish hero slices, at best lukewarm,at worst frozen strips of Turkish Delight from a reconstituted block of gelatine/chocolate for the young ladies pleasure.

  • i always cut my turkish delight with a sword as well

  • @matchbox555 ...ROFL....cracked me up! :)

  • BAHAHAHAHHA... Classic and corny! LOVE IT

  • I bought a Turkish Delight from the market the first time today. I'm not sure how much I like it lol. It's very different from American chocolate bars!

  • I don't care how off the mark it is, I love this advert.

    Sexy as...LOL

  • funny how "turkish delight" is portrayed in completely alien geography. There are no sand dunes and camels roaming the Turkish countryside.

    Instead its a pretty green fertile country, with mountains and summer-dry but winter-wet plateaus. Very mediterranean throughout. Just another wrong perception of good old Turkey.

  • @dkdkytyt

    I think it's supposed to represent the Ottoman Empire's territory (turkey) being in the Egypt area in those days.

    So it's Turkish Delight that's not in Turkey :)

  • @dkdkytyt Never let fact get in the way of a good story (advert!)

  • funny how "turkish delight" is portrayed in completely alien geography. There are no sand dunes and camels roaming the Turkish countryside.

    Instead its a pretty green fertile country, with mountains and summer-dry but winter-wet plateaus. Very mediterranean throughout. Just another wrong perception of good old Turkey.

  • full of eastern semtex

  • Turkey ain't exotic place! I'm Greek and they're just same with us, appearence, food and stuff. Anyone think Greece is eastern and exotic?

    Also, there was deserts in Turkey once, before they lost Iraq and Syria to someone else.

  • @Ninevoltz1 Anyone of you numnuts considered that people elsewhere than Turkey eat Turkish delight?

  • hahaah thats arab.

  • @emiliajane71

    That would be ace. Thank you. :-D

  • There is no desert in Turkey

    and the people dont wear any turbans!

    such a stupid commercial!

  • one bite okay but a full bar of the stuff...ughhh..

  • @emiliajane71

    Do you know what the title of this piece of music is? 

  • it's not really full of Eastern Promise...it's actually full of some type of gelatinous stuff that's probably made from cow's knees.

  • @homerbear46 hahahaha so funny, and possibly true.

  • @homerbear46 mmmm, knees

  • @homerbear46 hooves

  • @homerbear46 what a great and funny comment 'made from cows knees' LOL HEEHEEHEEHEE

  • when you see a person with asian features in his/her face, you simply call her/him chineese.

    same thing with that why people associate turks with arabians. lack of knowledge over middle east.

  • Fuck zionist!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i searched end the woman en man are both turks but lives in europe !!!

  • One feels like eating a Turkish Delight...

  • that bird could have had my turkish delight which is full of eastern promise

  • got to be the longest running adverts ever! they were still showing this in 1999

  • lol this is so orientalist

  • love this advert! just bought a multipack!

  • turkish is not arabia!

  • this advert seamed to go on forever i remember seeing it well into the 90s .

  • hahahahah....whats thiss...???...omg...İs there istanbul...

  • haha at 0:52 I coulda swore he said yeast and hummus...

  • Was this filmed in Iraq? :p

  • Another great ad from the 70's.

  • This advert is referencing an early silent film 'The Sheik' which starred Rudolph Valentino. If you notice the woman looks a bit like a silent screen vamp and he is made-up to look like Valentino but not so good looking! You can watch the original movie on Youtube

  • Love it, so hypnotising and brings back so many wonderful memories of childhood wonderment. although i was only about 1 or 2 when this was airing i still remember it. Fascinating stuff!

  • One of the best adverts ever.

  • even the clip is arab . but dont forget you turks out there you ownd most of the none arab world back when the ottoman empire was powerful ??

  • bu ne la

  • I remember this in the early 80's when I was about 5 years old. My sister was about 19 and was the double of the woman in the ad although she's not even Arab/Turkish or whatever. lol

  • its arabs not turks we are different 2 nations.... But all of the people same

  • dnt get me wrong arabs are ok , but if they put arab delight do you think ppl would buy it ? when you hear turkish delight it sounds much more pleaseing dose evey one eles agee???

  • @GGMacarthur Agree.

  • i used to love the powdered turkish delight . yum

  • Ya turkish make good movies and Araabs only make IED attack videos.

  • I simply love the music in this advert.....sends a sensation up my spine every time!! :D

  • double

  • lol thts well arabian not turkish

  • dont ask for one in turkey or you just get a fat greasy prostitute

  • best stuff in the world :D OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

  • this is the first ad i can remember seeing on tv when i was about 3 or 4

  • Luv this ad, I was a little baby when I first remember watching (and loving) it and im 29 now! It brings back so many wonderful memories, lovely music too. Thanks 4 the upload...

  • excellent!

  • I love this advert. I was three when it was first aired and I remember it clearly - it's probably my first TV memory. As a child I loved the mystique surrounding it (in my childs mind!) and it's so very nostalgic watching it back now...

  • This is an orientalist view of Turks. I have never seen a Turk wear this type of clothing. Turkey certainly does not have sand dunes like the ones in this video. During the Ottoman Empire, Turks occupied places in the Middle East that looked like this, ie Saudi Arabia.

  • @ottomano and there's not really much delight left in Turkey (only joking) ; )

  • ive always wonderd what the song was to this advert can anyone tell me what it is and possible if it can be downloaded

  • @darkemosteve I may be mistaken but I think it was created for this advert by Jeff Wayne of War of the Worlds fame.

  • When I was a teen, I had a crush on that girl, she's still a bit gorgeous - who is she?

  • Hello I am Turkish man This video Arab Not Turkish and We not same ... We never believe When arabs leave alone us on war...

    Chocolate name is turkish But persons Arab

  • @baysaliso Yeah not too much the same you guys are near the arabs but the thing is Turkey is also near Europe so you do have some more European traits. The western side of Turkey that is closer to Europe has more European things about it like Istanbul. Places closer to the east are more arab-like. So it is really half europe half Mid east.

  • Love Turkish delight....MMMMMMMMM

  • its arab delight not turkish :D i understand now why europen think Turks like arab

    WE ARENT SAME

  • @Tengri89

    The advert is harking back to the days of early cinima, where as the name Turkish Delight goes back four hundred years. I would say that any inteligent European knows that Turks arn't arabs.

  • @Tengri89

    This says something, don't you think? Don't try to be Europeans! Remain eastern and exotic - Turkey should scrap all this Kemalist nonsense and be itself again.

  • @Tengri89 Its just a romanticised play on the slogan "full of eastern promise".

    The product that they are selling is almost nothing to do with Turks (its nothing like real Turkish delight) and the scene portrayed is nothing to do with real Arabs - much more to do with the Italian actor Rudolph Valentino.

    Real Turkish delight is also called Lokum or Libya, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia ḥalqūm but that doesn't roll off the tongue so easily "Fry's Lokum ḥalqūm"

  • @Tengri89 you should write turkish delight on google and arab delight and you'll see arab delight doesnt exist...

  • @producted13 i know i wanted to say we arent arab we dont have desert :D we dont do anything in desert :D adv show turks like arabs

  • @Tengri89 The Middle East was part of the Ottoman Turkish empire, which invented Turkish delight in the 15th century. So Arabs and Turks would have both eaten it and were part of the same Turkish empire.

  • @producted13 Look up the Ottoman Empire which invented Turkish delight, and see the countries that included.

  • @ojideagu For your Info Turks are descendants of Ottomans so it doesnt matter if it were the Ottomans cause they are the same as Turks. It's name is Turkish Delight it's Turkish so live with it instead of trying to teach me about the history of my country.

  • @producted13 The Ottomans who lived in the middle east could have invented Turkish delight.

    I doubt anybody knows if they made it IN turkey. Lot's of people descend from the Ottomans not just Turkish people because they invaded so many countries.

  • @Tengri89

    yes turks are mongols

    arabs are semitic

    big different

  • @arabiannight100 and this is a chocolate advert

  • @Farfrae1

    turks have amazing food by the way

    just try antalyie beaches for summer and enjoy thier food

    dont laugh at me turkish chocolate was better than swiss LOL

  • i believe this is still a current ad

  • Feel weird about it, a decent vid, and romantic, so it doesn't portray the mid east in a bad way, but then it has nothing to do with Turks (the iconography is Arabic) and .. the candy isn't real Turkish delight!

  • Launched in 1914 and 92% fat free. From 1950 the slogan "Full of eastern promise" has been used.

  • fuckin hell the turks in my local kebab shop dont look like this guy in ad

  • Turks dont like to be called arab..we dont even have any desert..and we dont wear hijab or whatever it is :D

  • I remember this advert when i was a baby and sitting on the floor right up to the tv watching it must of only been 2 or 3 years old.

  • For some reason this advert had a second run around 1996. Almost unchanged.

  • I love this advert since I was a girl.