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Murray's Halva Update

Better than the last few times, but still not great.

Bottom Line:  Stay tuned as the story develops.

Floss Halva

So our friend Emily went to Turkey or someplace (package indicates Turkey rather than someplace) and picked up some Floss Halva.  She swears by it.  Leila and I don't.

It is sort of like a cross between chocolate-covered halva and chocolate-covered cotton candy and chocolate-covered sweetened plasticwax.  Leila spat it right out.  I didn't, but I did notice the subtle hints of vomit to go along with the heavy refined sugar taste.  Emily assures us that it must be this brand -- whatever brand this is.  She said that it is usually better.  Maybe that is the case.  If you are in Turkey, though, maybe go with the chocolate baklava from Gulluoglu instead (not available in the NYC store -- I checked).

Bottom Line: Nah

Murray's Chocolate Halva

So halva is delicious.  For those not familiar, it is a cake made entirely of calories, by grinding sesame seeds together with copious amounts of sugar.  I don't know the details, ok?  But it's important.  Not the details.  Those aren't.  The halva is what's important.  Chocolate versions often look like this:

Every weekend, my family picks up bagels from Murray's and brings them over to my grandpa's place for brunch.  They also pick up dessert there, which is always their chocolate halva.  It's typically really excellent.  Just the right combo of sickeningly sweet and super greasey.  The key, though, is to get a corner piece to maximize chocolateyness.  I fight my dad over the corners.

Anyways, we'd been getting this halva for years, and it's been really excellent.  But recently it's been totally dry and unpleasant.  As if it'd been sitting in the store for, like, a month.  Our whole family noticed.  We don't really know what's up.  We even asked, with no satisfying answer.  Anyways, we have brunch tomorrow, so I'll let you know if there are any developments.

Bottom Line: A classic product currently in a holding pattern.