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America has just discovered the doner kebab – and the Internet's gone crazy
27 February 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/762287/doner-kebab-shish-america-turkish-takeaway
DONER KEBABS are an essential part of the Great British Night On The Lash – but Americans are only just discovering them…
New York news site Insider ran a video of someone slicing the classic ‘“elephant’s leg” kebab way back in May – but for some reason it’s blown up on Twitter overnight.
The video describes the ultimate post-pub dirty snack as a ‘meat platter’ because apparently due to some oversight they don’t have a kebab shop situated exactly half-way between everybody’s house and their local.
The poor, naive Americans seem to think that doners are some sort of exotic culinary innovation that counts as a gourmet sandwich.
And British Twitter is amazed, aghast, and laughing its head off.
Calum McSwiggan asked “Did they really just refer to that kebab as a “sandwich”? I literally can’t with these people” while Becs cut right to the heart of the matter: “Meat platters? It’s a doner kebab – you can get one in every take away in the U.K.”
Mr Price shared some valuable information for US citizens just discovering the late-night staple: “It's a kebab!!! And top tip from UK..... if the kebab shop guy asks you if u want his 'secret sauce' you say NO!”
Doner kebab purist Vigilante wasn’t entirely happy with the presentation: “Imagine chopping up doner meat like this. Blasphemy” and Miyun offered a similar perspective: “oh god that meat looks so weird americans what are they feeding you oh my god if you tried to sell that "kebab" in Turkey people would report you to somewhere anywhere …oh my god”
Kebabs aren’t entirely new in New York. Iron Man spots a Shawarma restaurant towards the end of the first Avengers movie but for some reason the fine people at Insider missed that.
They also seemed to miss the fact that the mysterious ‘secret sauce’ was just garlic mayonnaise.
After being comprehensively mocked by British, Turkish, German and French Twitter for a few hours one plucky Yank hit back, saying “All of you saying “Americans haven’t found this yet?”....ummmm we’re in a different country. Here’s a question, do know what a sloppy joe is? Or Shoo Fly Pie? No? Ok then”
No we don’t. And we’re not about to find out. because after talking about kebabs for ten minutes all we can think about now is that lovely, lovely elephant’s leg.
27 February 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/762287/doner-kebab-shish-america-turkish-takeaway
DONER KEBABS are an essential part of the Great British Night On The Lash – but Americans are only just discovering them…
New York news site Insider ran a video of someone slicing the classic ‘“elephant’s leg” kebab way back in May – but for some reason it’s blown up on Twitter overnight.
The video describes the ultimate post-pub dirty snack as a ‘meat platter’ because apparently due to some oversight they don’t have a kebab shop situated exactly half-way between everybody’s house and their local.
The poor, naive Americans seem to think that doners are some sort of exotic culinary innovation that counts as a gourmet sandwich.
And British Twitter is amazed, aghast, and laughing its head off.
Calum McSwiggan asked “Did they really just refer to that kebab as a “sandwich”? I literally can’t with these people” while Becs cut right to the heart of the matter: “Meat platters? It’s a doner kebab – you can get one in every take away in the U.K.”
Mr Price shared some valuable information for US citizens just discovering the late-night staple: “It's a kebab!!! And top tip from UK..... if the kebab shop guy asks you if u want his 'secret sauce' you say NO!”
Doner kebab purist Vigilante wasn’t entirely happy with the presentation: “Imagine chopping up doner meat like this. Blasphemy” and Miyun offered a similar perspective: “oh god that meat looks so weird americans what are they feeding you oh my god if you tried to sell that "kebab" in Turkey people would report you to somewhere anywhere …oh my god”
Kebabs aren’t entirely new in New York. Iron Man spots a Shawarma restaurant towards the end of the first Avengers movie but for some reason the fine people at Insider missed that.
They also seemed to miss the fact that the mysterious ‘secret sauce’ was just garlic mayonnaise.
After being comprehensively mocked by British, Turkish, German and French Twitter for a few hours one plucky Yank hit back, saying “All of you saying “Americans haven’t found this yet?”....ummmm we’re in a different country. Here’s a question, do know what a sloppy joe is? Or Shoo Fly Pie? No? Ok then”
No we don’t. And we’re not about to find out. because after talking about kebabs for ten minutes all we can think about now is that lovely, lovely elephant’s leg.
(Talking about the franchise food, not the original cart in NYC)
