As a kid growing up in the US, I liked “Aplets and Cotlets” a lot, so I could really empathize with Edmund. I suppose that if my parents had given us rose or bergamot lokum it would have been a very different story.
It's funny, I adore rosewater and pine Turkish Delight, but think of Aplets and Cotlets as that weird, bad candy that comes with your rations in the Boy Scouts.