Kebab - interesting experience

[Vermonter]

My folks were up tonight, and we walked around Burlington's Church St for a while. At the end of the marketplace was a guy with a Turkish kebab stand - and I saw it, and mentioned it to my parents that it looked an awful lot like the Döner stands and shops in central Germany, where I went for a school trip in 2002. The guy running it hears me say "döner" and says "Yes, that's what they call it in Germany". I talk with him for a few minutes, and found out he was in Munich for ten years, and knew of the place I visited - Erfurt. I think I made the guy's day, because I knew what he was talking about, and could make some connections. That, and döner is just delicious! We could see the pride in his eyes after we had finished our conversation, I think that little bit of recognition really made his day.

[Edit] Here's a link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab#D.C3.B6ner_kebab) about döner, if ya'll don't know.

[Ozzy]

They're called "doner kebabs" here.Very yummy, especially with yogurt sauce.
(and tabouli has lots of iron ...bonus).

[HenrikOlsen]

Occasionally seen as donner kebab, which always makes me laugh.

[mugaliens]

Cool! My typical day while biking home from work is picking up a juice or snack from the convenience store, then stopping by the Donor for dinner. I usually get a lamb doner (I'm not into pork), with cheese, lettuce, tomato, sauce, and kraut. Combined with the pita bread, it's a fairly healthy meal! None of those fried fat burgers we have back in the States.

Between that and the biking, I've lost nearly 20 pounds since I arrived here.

[Gillianren]

Occasionally seen as donner kebab, which always makes me laugh.

You know, a member of the Donner party later opened a restaurant in Sacramento.

[The Supreme Canuck]

Hm. I worked at a donair place last summer. Don't do that. The food was good. The job wasn't.

[captain swoop]

In the UK the Doner Kebab is the top late night takeaway after u leave the pub. Loads of spicey lamb doner meat in a Pitta bread with a salad and chilli or garlic sauce

You eat half the doner meat and a bit of the bread, ignore the salad then throw most of it onto the pavement before staggering home. Well thats the wat it seems.

In our little N Yorks Market town there are 4 Take aways on the Market Place all selling Kebabs, Pizzas and Burgers, 3 Chinese takeaways, 2 indian and 3 Fish and Chip Shops.

We like our takeaways in the UK! olnt the Kebab/Pizza places are open after about 10 oclock at night tho

[papageno]

In Berlin the döners were not with Pitta bread, but with some other type of bread (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6ner_kebap#Germany).
I ate more of them than I should have. :)

[Roy Batty]

From that link:
"In Germany, the Turkish Döner Kebab, Pita, Vegetarischer Döner, Falafel... are far more popular than hamburgers or sausages, especially with young people, who eat a "Döner" (as it is usually just called) for lunch, dinner and late at night after returning from clubs and bars (costs: between € 2 and 4,50)."

We have a Kebab place just down the road... still waiting for them to put a vegetarian Doner on the spit though... :D

Edited to add link quote.

[Roy Batty]

You eat half the doner meat and a bit of the bread, ignore the salad then throw most of it onto the pavement before staggering home. Well thats the wat it seems.
Lol, that's the truth! Apart from the one time long ago when I drunkenly shoved a half eaten one in my jacket pocket late one night. Unfortunately I was so hungover in the morning I got to work before I realised it was still there :D

[farmerjumperdon]

We like our takeaways in the UK! olnt the Kebab/Pizza places are open after about 10 oclock at night tho

I noticed that. Spent a few months in Alnwick. Late at night the town was completely rolled up - except for the take-out joints. Seemed like a ridiculously large number of them for a smallish town.

But then again, here in Wisconsin, you can have a little berg of a few hundred people and 8 bars to choose from.

[Strider1974]

They are very popular in Australia and have been for years.

There are shops all over Sydney that specialise in Doner Kababs

[captain swoop]

There does seem to be a lot of takeaways in the UK, If u get away from the Market place in Guisborough there are 4 more Kebab/ Pizza places, 3 more fish and chip shops and 2 more chinese and and Indian. As for bars we have 8 pubs just on the Market Place and another 6 with in a couple of hundred yards. That doesnt include the Conservative Club, TA Club, Quoits Club, Cricket Club and the Rugby Club (u have to be members of all them).

[Moose]

There was a chip wagon that had staked out a spot near my old work place (essentially an RV converted to a mobile short-order kitchen). Their specialty was chicken kebabs. Apparently, they really hate it you walk up and ask for a "squab kebab". *snicker*

What I really got a kick out of was the number of pigeons that hung out in that parking lot.

[01101001]

I'm surprised I've not seen mentioned the alternate names gyros/gyro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros) (Greece) and shawarma/shewarma/shoarma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawarma) (Middle East), which is all I've ever known doner kebab as in the USA.

OK. Now they are mentioned.

Edit: I forgot that other great USAn language, Spanish: taco al pastor/taco arabe (Mexico).

[Gillianren]

Oh! Gyros! ("Gyro" is the singular; "gyros" the plural. At least as far as I've been able to tell. And it's definitely pronounced "yee-rohs.") Yeah, I know what those are. I don't like them, but I know what they are.

[captain swoop]

In our area we have a speciality called a 'Parmo' thats either a Pork or Chicken FIllet Flame grilled then covered in a mix of herbs, grated cheese (including parmesan) and a garlic sauce then passed through the Pizza oven. (all the takeaways use the ones with the moving 'belt' that takes the food through.