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[Liljagare]

Turkey pushes for European protections on traditional doner kebab

Turkey hopes to secure the same status for kebab as French champagne and Spanish serrano ham.

metro.co.uk

I saw in another article, no sauces allowed, that will absolutely kill Doner in the EU, everyone hunts for the places with the best red (usually a good marinara) and white sauce (usually a good garlic sauce).

I am sorry, but Doner, without the sauces, is like Champagne without bubbles.

Or a good Cognac without alcohol,

The original product is flawed by not having the sauces. If this happens, everyone will just go for Keboob instead.

 

[The Stig]

Yeah what the heck?

I miss donor kebabs so much. I live in CA but used to eat them all the time in the UK where I grew up

edit - yeah just come up with another name eh

 

[Spyxos]

Wasn't that invented by Turkish immigrants in Berlin?

 

[AJUMP23]

Can Canada get poutine protected.

 

[DKehoe]

Bossmen around the EU just felt a shiver run down their backs

 

[German Hops]

What is all this kerfuffle for?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Read as Donner Kebabs.

Something tastes funny here.

 

[midnightAI]

Wait, you can protect a 'serving suggestion'? That doesn't sound right (never will be adhered to in the UK anyway, chilli sauce and garlic mayo is the norm around here, last port of call after a night out drinking)

 

[jason10mm]

The original product is flawed by not having the sauces. If this happens, everyone will just go for Keboob instead.

Keboobs is what I call my busty Turkish maid.

 

[hybrid_birth]

 

[The Cockatrice]

The EU is retarded if they allow this. It's just a food recipe. People will just call it something else and use the same recipe lmao.

 

[midnightAI]

Phew, hopefully Metro has it wrong, Daily Mail make no mention of any sauce issues only thickness and quality of meat (that's what she said)...

Turkey proposal to force meat in doner kebab to be same thickness

The country demanded that there should be very specific rules for how thin slices of doner meat should be, what the meat should consist of, and that there should be a 'certain standard' to its production

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Diddy X]

Kebabs are gross af, I'm pretty sure I found a cockroach's leg inside one.

 

[Lambogenie]

Kebabs are gross af, I'm pretty sure I found a cockroach's leg inside one.

Ungrateful for the extra protein. Starve then.

I agree, kebab should have specific standard. The meat should be a specific thickness, on the thinner side. And none of that BS curry sauce some Bengalis be adding.

I heard to try kebab in Japan of all places. They weren't wrong!

 

[Winter John]

The first time I had a kebab was in Dublin. We had em here but I remember being told it was cat meat or some shit so we didn’t go near them. Anyways I got to Dublin and we went to this place called the juju club. Afterwards we all went to this kebab take out and that was the first time I had it. It was awesome. I wolfed that shit down. The thing about these kebabs is they only taste good when you’re drunk as shit. You can’t be eating kebab at 5pm on a Wednesday. It don’t work. The other thing I figured out is when you’re ordering you tell the guy no salad. Otherwise they fill it up with leaves n shit instead of meat.

 

[Lambogenie]

The first time I had a kebab was in Dublin. We had em here but I remember being told it was cat meat or some shit so we didn’t go near them. Anyways I got to Dublin and we went to this place called the juju club. Afterwards we all went to this kebab take out and that was the first time I had it. It was awesome. I wolfed that shit down. The thing about these kebabs is they only taste good when you’re drunk as shit. You can’t be eating kebab at 5pm on a Wednesday. It don’t work. The other thing I figured out is when you’re ordering you tell the guy no salad. Otherwise they fill it up with leaves n shit instead of meat.

Poppy cock. Kebab tastes good at any time. Just go to good joints. Good joints load meat and salad.

 

[Winter John]

Poppy cock. Kebab tastes good at any time. Just go to good joints. Good joints load meat and salad.

Dude, nothing tastes good at any time except maybe ice cream and champagne. Kebabs taste good when you’re drunk as shit but that’s about the only time. I still don’t know what the fuck that mystery meat is. I figure it’s badger or some wacky euro farm animal.

 

[Trunx81]

A good Kebab can be eaten at any time. You just didn’t have the right ones. Although I prefer Dürüm/Yufka. Less bread, same interior.

 

[Tams]

Bossmen around the EU just felt a shiver run down their backs

Dis iz not peng.

 

[Spyxos]

The first time I had a kebab was in Dublin. We had em here but I remember being told it was cat meat or some shit so we didn’t go near them. Anyways I got to Dublin and we went to this place called the juju club. Afterwards we all went to this kebab take out and that was the first time I had it. It was awesome. I wolfed that shit down. The thing about these kebabs is they only taste good when you’re drunk as shit. You can’t be eating kebab at 5pm on a Wednesday. It don’t work. The other thing I figured out is when you’re ordering you tell the guy no salad. Otherwise they fill it up with leaves n shit instead of meat.

It's the first time I've heard that, kebabs are eaten here at any time of the day.

 

[Porcile]

Ungrateful for the extra protein. Starve then.

I agree, kebab should have specific standard. The meat should be a specific thickness, on the thinner side. And none of that BS curry sauce some Bengalis be adding.

I heard to try kebab in Japan of all places. They weren't wrong!

Wut. Kebabs in Japan are absolutely terrible especially doner kebabs. The two kinds of food you simply can't get good versions of in Japan are famously Mexican and Turkish.

 

[Blitzmangoman]

The first time I had a kebab was in Dublin. We had em here but I remember being told it was cat meat or some shit so we didn’t go near them. Anyways I got to Dublin and we went to this place called the juju club. Afterwards we all went to this kebab take out and that was the first time I had it. It was awesome. I wolfed that shit down. The thing about these kebabs is they only taste good when you’re drunk as shit. You can’t be eating kebab at 5pm on a Wednesday. It don’t work. The other thing I figured out is when you’re ordering you tell the guy no salad. Otherwise they fill it up with leaves n shit instead of meat.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Wasn't that invented by Turkish immigrants in Berlin?

My Turkish bros say that it tastes better in Germany & The Netherlands than compared to in Turkey.

 

[Fart Knight]

I prefer shoarma anyway.

 

[Urban]

I prefer shoarma anyway.

It’s literally the same.. just a copy of it

 

[Lambogenie]

Wut. Kebabs in Japan are absolutely terrible especially doner kebabs. The two kinds of food you simply can't get good versions of in Japan are famously Mexican and Turkish.

Then I like bad food what can I say

 

[Artoris]

Is Kebab not a turkic food rather than a Turkish food

 

[RavenSan]

Eat em all the time in the UK - delicious. Don't care about the law.

 

[AJUMP23]

Greece should protect the gyro. It is better than the kabob.

 

[Scotty W]

This is what I don’t get about Turks and Indians: you got these amazing foods… but always the exact same things? and you don’t experiment? and there are 100’s of restaurants exactly the same?

 

[mitch1971]

Kebabs are gross af, I'm pretty sure I found a cockroach's leg inside one.

You lucky bastard!

 

[mitch1971]

Greece should protect the gyro. It is better than the kabob.

I lived on them when on the island of Kos.

 

[jufonuk]

 

[BadBurger]

Too late. It has already spread to places like Mexico thanks to diaspora, and become integrated into the culture decades ago.

 

[Spyxos]

New kebab unlocked

 

[cormack12]

I remember my mate telling me they were elephants legs when we were growing up so I never acquired a taste for them

 

[IntentionalPun]

They can just call it something else if this dumb shit works.

 

[Liljagare]

This is what I don’t get about Turks and Indians: you got these amazing foods… but always the exact same things? and you don’t experiment? and there are 100’s of restaurants exactly the same?

Might wanna have a talk with Italy, France and Spain too. It's nuts how they all defend their own unique products, that... .. .. are the same products.

 

[M1chl]

The EU is retarded if they allow this. It's just a food recipe. People will just call it something else and use the same recipe lmao.

Yes, but they are already doing it with other food products, but ultimately only change is that is like a copyright and you can basically produce the same thing, you just have to change the name. Like Champagne > Sparkling Wine, etc...

 

[StreetsofBeige]

So by the sounds of it they want to trademark the name Doner Kebob.

That would be like someone trying to protect "Pizza" with a strict code of rules.

Sounds pretty retarded, but good luck I guess. Seems like people in Turkey got too much time on their hands.

 

[mitch1971]

Yes, but they are already doing it with other food products, but ultimately only change is that is like a copyright and you can basically produce the same thing, you just have to change the name. Like Champagne > Sparkling Wine, etc...

Just call them beer sponges.

 

[MrRenegade]

Can Canada get poutine protected.

Is this good anywhere or have I eaten the worst fries all around the country covered with this rubbery cheese.

 

[AJUMP23]

Is this good anywhere or have I eaten the worst fries all around the country covered with this rubbery cheese.

Poutine is bad just like Canadas PM.