Germany’s starts a Kebab war!

[Jimbuna]

I've never had a really good kebab in Turkey whilst there but I have had good ones here in the UK and the Netherlands.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I've never had a really good kebab in Turkey whilst there but I have had good ones here in the UK and the Netherlands.

Yes, the NZZ article I linked explains what the difference is. The Döner as we now know it, with bread and veggies, stems from the 70s, and most likely from Berlin. The Turkish meat speer is not the same, and uses different meat. The German Döner invented by German Turks became more popular by its different taste.


What I dont like about it is that you cnnot see what sorts of meat and wqhat qulaity of meat isbeing used to make the meat rolls. While it is regulated, the business is shady, there are black sheep for sure. I dont like to eat stuff where I cannot conclude on the original quality and the ingredients, especially when it is fish and meat. We have had too many rotten meat scandals, and Döner meat rolls are wonderful to hide waste meat in. Let me see the raw matter, let me smell it.

[Jimbuna]

^ Agreed....I used to help out on occasion/days off work at a friends pizza shop where he also sold kebabs (he is a Turkish national actually) and I have never seen as much oil/grease come off a piece of meat like it would on these kebab meat parcels.

There were also about a dozen different quality grades of kebab depending on what level of quality you were after.

[Skybird]

Use translation subtitles.

[em2nought]

I actually had to look before posting in this thread prior, but the name we all called the spot to get a good "doner" from in Gourock(or was the shop in Greenock as they kind of run together from what I remember?) is now considered a racial slur. None of us ever considered it a slur. I don't think the fellas taking our money did either. I don't think anyone I knew intended it as a racial slur. This modern world is too sensitive.

[Skybird]

Some tasty "racial slurs" from German language.


Negerkuss (Negro's Kiss)




Berliner



Amerikaner



Wiener (Viennese)

[Dargo]

OK when we have a fight with the Turks can We claim the "Kapsalon"?

A kapsalon is a Dutch dish consisting of fries covered with shoarma, topped with cheese, put under the grill for a while so the cheese melts, with salad on top. Instead of shoarma, the kapsalon is also prepared with kebab, döner, gyros, chicken or falafel. It is often served with garlic sauce and sambal. In Suriname, the kapsalon is served with garlic sauce and Javanese-Surinamese peanut sauce.