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We moved to Germany. Berlin is a kebab paradise and the people who run those counters rock. They’ll chat with us and our poor German, fix up a great meal, and it’s always tasty to eat.
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Für mich? Alles und sehr scharf!
Fùr meine Ehefrau? Kein rotkohl und kein scharf, aber beiden gemüse und pommes, bitte.
Und mit Käse, bitte!
As a semi-middle eastern person who grew up with access to real Turkish cuisine, seeing German/European style döner makes cry. Not only they dare to put lettuce/cabbage in it at all, it’s like 60% of the content. It took me years to find proper döner in Poland, but now I finally know 2 places.
I have this but with Simit. Done Erasmus in Istanbul (a lifetime ago, before Erdogan), the Simit from the street vendors and small bakeries … Ooof. Haven’t found any that can even remotely compare since 😿
Also: is still open after every other restaurant in town has closed for the night.
Calgary Shawarma. I don’t know his name, but my grandfather was sick and I was stuck at work (working on a phone line repair at the auto shop next door.) Dead of winter, miserable cold. Then my mom calls: Grandpa died. Shawarma guy overheard this, I’m sitting in my van crying. Knock on my window. Guy hands me a Shawarma. “Boss, you should come in to my shop, have some food, get warm. No charge.” He sat and listened to my grandpa stories until I had it together and could go back to finish my job.
Seriously, total stranger, and he was there for me on one of my worst days, and I’ll never forget.
We can all do things like this. :)
Every day can be a fun challenge to find someone to help, with anything at all.
I tried a
German Doner Kebabsince they seem to be a chain cropping up everywhere here in the UK. Awful. Terrible. Skimps on the meat. Salad tastes stale. Bread is some weird waffle mix.Never again will I betray my local doner/durum man, for this new weak euro-corpo-bullshit
That is a local issue. I live in Berlin. It got expensive, but is still the best bang for the buck in fast food category.
Wtf. You guys have that brand over there too? I just thought it was a thing to entice English rubes to something vaguely european sounding
Not a brand, more of a style, but:
Right at the bottom. So to say, Döner im Brot is a very Berlin-way to eat a Döner.
Isn’t that image just Fladenbrot? Döner im (pitta) Brot is the defacto standard here, and I’m talking about this weird bread that the brand “German Doner Kebab” uses:
Just imagine this, but less meat and the salad is soft. The bread is so stupid that unlike a pitta, you can’t stuff it until its full, but have to underpack it so that it actually holds closed
wtf is that? That’s gonna fall apart in 0.2 seconds.
That’s a fuckin gyro on a waffle cone.
It’s a crime, is what it is. Half that’s going down your shirt.
THANK YOU
I’ve got a guy like this who does rice and three curries. When I came back from working outside of the city centre for a couple of years he automatically made a plate of my favourite combo and said “where’ve you been?”, and It’ll be the same when I’m next back in England.
One time I went in with a Sikh mate and apparently the proprietor was being shitty to someone for being the wrong kind of Indian, but at least he seems to be ok with colonisers like me.
I live in the middle of nowhere in northern Ontario but I get to visit the big city of Toronto once in a while. In all those trips, about half the time, I end up meeting a nice Kebab guy. Those guys are great.
Korma Sutra in KC.
It’s run by an older couple. You get your food and then the woman will come over to check on you, tell you that you’re too skinny and you need to eat more, then get naan and out in on your table (free).
The man likes to goof around. He puts a balloon on each ear then walks around making jokes and chatting people up.
I first went there 5 years ago. Someone texted me the other day asking if I’d been and relayed their recent experience which was exactly like mine from 5 years ago.
I love them. Plus they named their restaurant Korma Sutra which is funny. It’s like going to visit your auntie and uncle.
When you go in a place that hasn’t been redecorated since the 80’s, there’s a mop bucket randomly in the middle of the floor, and “Wat I get you todaie, Bahddy?” You know you’re going to eat good!
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One of the guys who’ll never give you up, never let you down.
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Doner meat?
“Döner” (sometimes called döner kebab) is the name of a type of popular Turkish street food sold in Germany. (Like the taco in the USA.)
It’s like a kebab sandwich. As far as I’m aware, it does not actually exist in the USA. But, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it mentioned in English.
We’ve got it in Canada, and it’s especially popular on the East Coast, like Halifax.
But yeah, I’m in Ontario and I know there’s a Donair place ten minutes from my house.
There’s gyros in the US.
One is Greek and one is Turkish. I believe there is a difference in seasonings and meat choices.
Plus, döner meat is usually cut off a roasting spit right in front of the customers’ eyes, which I understand is vital to the experience.
Not quite the same. Similar ingredients but wrapped in a much more drunk friendly way.
They might not have made it fly-over country yet, but almost everyone in any major city knows what a döner kebeb is.
To know it is to love it.
Sounds awesome!
See also: the Mexican “taquero”
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