I've only had it a few times - but please please help me find this comfort food?

[NotQuiteCockney]

It's sour trahanas (frumenty). It's little bits, the kind I'm looking for. I've only found this which looks like spaghetti .

It's a Greek thing. I'd like to be able to order it in the UK. Or buy it at a Greek store in London?

I'm feeling ill, and I always want this when I'm ill. I know comfort food is meant to be food from your childhood, and I have no idea why I want this, but I do damnit.

Oh, this is what it should look like - only that's an American site.

Or - could someone tell me if Turkish people eat it, as it seems to be a Cypriot thing. And my area has lots of Turkish shops ... maybe I should just ask them ...

Aha, it's Tarhana in Turkey (but they put vegetables in it?!?! ugh) and maybe Lebanese kishk might do it for me. Will go talk to the blokes in the corner shop, I think!

this suggests that the Turkish Cypriot shops would be a good bet...

I don't know if our local Turkish shops are Cypriot or just, you know, Turkish. It's such a delicate subject ...

But yeah, there are two good, very local, quite Turkish shops where they're friendly - they might even get some in for me if they don't generally stock it.

You startled me coming on this thread, I thought I was the only one in here!

How are you, anyway? How is the illustrious Team Badger? Your newest member is getting big, isn't she?

oh we are lovely
knackered but lovely
relocated 500yds down the road with [gasp] a better view of the power stn. I still recall with fondness your post that asked if we moved here from London because we lost some kind of bet...

and she is colossal

re the trachanas, I think it might be the kind of thing that you only get at home because your mum makes it
this any good?

Ah, my old Greek mum. Well, not so much. I bought this stuff at a weird grocery store once and really liked it. Go figure.

That stuff looks thoroughly Greek but insufficiently sour, unfortunately. I will have Words with our local Turkish shops, the blokes are really lovely, one of them always remembers how much I like peas, and says hello when we run into each other elsewhere.

Well, I asked a turkish bloke, and he said he had some at home, but none in the shop. There's a big Turkish shop off Dalston Lane where I can get some, apparently.

He was also seriously freaked out, in a 'where did you get that?' sort of way.

one of my colleagues is greek and engaged to a lebanese bloke, so i will try to remember to ask her tomorrow if you like.

the turkish supermarket in dalston is fantastic. oooh, i haven't been for ages. i once took their baklava into the office after we'd been on holiday in turkey .

Nothing wrong with that!

I'm not sure when I'll go, it's a long bike ride from ours.

fishie, thanks, but I think I'm on it now. No significant lebanese populations near me (afaik) so I can't count on their supermarkets!

'tis near here, come and have coffee .

That could work - I don't know where you are exactly. I don't know when I'm going, either. Helpfully.

email me, or facebook me or something. we are just off queensbridge rd.