 In Middle Eastern and North African cuisines, apricots are used to make Qamar al-Din ( "Moon of the Religion"), a thick apricot drink that is a popular fixture at Iftar during Ramadan.Qamar al-Din is believed to originate in Damascus, Syria, where the variety of apricots most suitable for the drink was first grown.The Turkish idiom "bundan iyisi Şam'da kayısı" (literally, "the only thing better than this is an apricot in Damascus") means "it doesn't get any better than this".