America has just discovered the doner kebab – and the Internet's gone crazy

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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.

https://twitter.com/x/status/868330931966193668

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”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100087265173430272

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.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1099338094128521216

 

[Michael Corleone]

this is quite a contentious subject.. is shwarma just a poor mans donner kebab

personally i prefer shwarma but its cheaper than donner kebeb

shwarma is 2-3 quid, donner is about 4-5 quid

where i live, both are the same price... but shawarma is still more popular....
gotto get me some doner hmm...

 

[fitpOsitive]

Doner Kebap >>>>> Shwarma. No comparison. Turkish food is very similar to Pakistani food.

Pakistani food is in fact a mix of Arabic, Turkish and Persian food.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

how did we start eating food ?

if we came from a bacteria we would we be eating carbon nitrogen and phosphorus

then we would have evolved and started eating more natural chemicals and then when we tuned into man we would have ended up eating donner meat

thats probably why we so obsessive about putting chemicals in our food like MSG because it makes us feel more close to home

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Are these guys f...cking idiots Greeks have been selling Gyros or Souvlaki or what the Turks call it Doner or something else since like the 1960s go to Astoria,Queens and see a bunch of Greeks and Turks sell this stuff lol as for Pakistani food being close to Turkish food bit too far Turkish food is more closer to Greek,Albanian, or Bulgarian tbh

I cook using Turkish spices and I make things like Adana Kofte and Tavuk Kebap. They are practically a milder form of Pakistani Kababs for me. Great for people who can't handle heavy spices from Pakistani foods.

Ayran is very close to Chati di lassi, a little different, but close.

As far as Helva, Pakistanis and Turks have very similar methods of making it. They even have a form of Gajar da halva which is almost the same as ours.

There are alot of commonalities also like naan/pide, but its a long subject.

Ofcourse Ottoman empire influenced and made the cuisine of Arabs, Greeks, Bulgars, Armenians, Kurds etc. I am not doubting that. Those people all market Turkish food as their own, but they are deceiving Americans.

It is similar to how Indians try to market Pakistani food as their own, but they can't make it as good as us. Same way, Turkish food is a refined art and Turks make it best.

If you guys like Arabic food, go to a authentic or high end Turkish restaurant, you will be blown away.

 

[CAN_TR]

Shwawarmas is just the Arab version of a Doner while the Doner is the Greek version of a Gyro basically

Shawarma comes from the the Turkish word Cevirme.
And Gyro is the greek version of Döner Kebab.

Putting a "ki" or "as" on the end of Turkish dishes makes it not Greek.

Funfuct: In the past Greeks called Turkish coffee... Turkish, but after political tensions they've started calling it Greek.