Macun

Macun is a soft, sweet, and colorful Turkish toffee paste sold as a street food, especially at festivals and outdoor markets, and is particularly popular with children. It descends from spicy preparations of Mesir macunu, a traditional Ottoman-era herbal paste once consumed as a pharmaceutical remedy, and is flavored with ingredients such as bergamot, cinnamon, mastic, mint, rose, lemon, and plum. Vendors traditionally serve it from a round tin tray with triangular compartments, using a special scoop called a macuncu mablagi to wrap the paste around a small stick, sometimes alternating flavors into striped sweets. In Anatolia a wedding custom has the groom eat macun on his wedding night, and the mesir bayrami ceremony in Manisa involves distributing macun to crowds in the street. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/