Whose döner kebab?

BBC ^ | 10/29/2024 | Ute Junker

[Brian Griffin]

"the Turkish government asked to have the döner kebab recognised as a Turkish specialty...That would give it the same status as Italy's Neapolitan pizza"

[dfwgator]

You mean like Turkish prisons?

[dfwgator]

And what’s with the umlauts? I thought that was a German thing.

[Red Badger]

döner kebab? As In Döner Party?.....Lots of long pork?............

[BobL]

Sounds more like some kind of sex joke or something.

[sjmjax]

Reindeer Kabob!
The latest Christmas dish.

[Dr. Sivana]

The only specialties I know of are Turkish Taffy and Turkish Baths. And Turkish Taffy is as Turkish as Russian Dressing is Russian.

[dfwgator]

Turkish Delight?

[Brian Griffin]

The German version is different than the current Turkish version apparently.

The Turks in Ankara want to prohibit the Turks in Germany from making it the way they typically make it in Germany and marketing it as döner kebab.

The EU would like to eliminate American-made Parmesan cheese from the American market, which is partially why the story is amusing.

The story also describes what the Ankara Turks want döner kebab to officially be and the dubious change to beef instead of lamb.

The slicing of the meat is said to date back centuries so some of the meat of a lamb on a spit could be eaten before the whole lamb is cooked.

[buwaya]

Its a German transliteration of a Turkish word.

These things were made popular in Germany, because of all the 1960s+ Turkish gastarbeiter.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Used to get those in Germany. They called them Kebap.

Giro meat.

[dfwgator]

But the Turks want to refer to their country now as “Türkiye”.

[Salman]

Beg pardon. Is it gyros, a Greek dish.

Also, never order Turkish coffee in a Greek restaurant, even if you think you see the people at the next table having some.

[Dr. Sivana]

Turkish Delight?

I forgot that one, as I never read the C.S. Lewis series.


https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/turkish_delight.png

[BikerJoe]

The German version is different than the current Turkish version apparently.

The Turks in Ankara want to prohibit the Turks in Germany from making it the way they typically make it in Germany and marketing it as döner kebab.

The EU would like to eliminate American-made Parmesan cheese from the American market, which is partially why the story is amusing.

The story also describes what the Ankara Turks want döner kebab to officially be and the dubious change to beef instead of lamb.

I knew Europe was lost back when Brussels ordered a British firm to stop making sausage of a certain color (because it infringed on somebody else.)

[dfwgator]

LOL!

[dfwgator]

The Turks haven’t forgotten The Battle of Vienna.

[Ezekiel]

Only kebabs adhering to strict criteria could be called döner kebabs

Talk about a slippery slope.

The party's just starting. They're just getting shawarmed up.

[buwaya]

That is, again, an originally German derived transliteration - I think. Türkei is German for Turkey.

[blueplum]

Only kebabs adhering to strict criteria could be called döner kebabs – and Berlin’s more portable version would not pass the test.

now this is dumb. It's like saying only certain ingredient pizza can be called pizza. Just drop the 'doner' from the name and call it a day. Or add shawarma or Ottoman-style to kebab and run with it. There's obviously not enough global warming going on in Turkey for them to be worrying about names for snacks.