Fun with facts

[Pachyderm]

Doner kebabs are supposed to be lamb. At least, they are in Turkey, and as they invented them (place called Bursa claims the credit) I'm guessing they can call the shots.

In UK at least, doner meat comes as this kind of elephant's leg shaped lump of mystery meat, which gets cooked vertically, and the outside sliced off in ribbons. It then gets put in pitta bread, covered with brown, aged salad, topped off with god-awful radio-active sauce.

Now dip the whole thing (bread, salad and sauce included) in batter.

Alan winced at even the memory of seeing one made....

[Sibling Chatty]

Ah, doner kebab=gyro. (Pronounced Yeeh-row, sorta.)

The sauce on a gyro is tzdaziki--a cucumber and sour cream sauce. (Spelling varies from the Turkish to the Greek.)

Good gyro meat is a beef/lamb combo. Bad gyro meat is mostly grease and sawdust.

[Swatopluk]

IBRAHIM - EIN STOLZER TÜRKE
MACHT RABAZZ AM KHEBABSTAND
WEIL SALAT ER UND GEGÜRKE
DOCH KEIN FLEISCH IM FLADEN FAND

FORSCH ENTLEERT ER SEINEN RAKI
GRIMMIG BEBT SEIN SCHWARZER BART
EILT ZUM GRIECHEN- ISST SOUVLAKI!
DEN KEBABWIRT TRIFFT DIESES HART.

AUF DEM HEIMWEG - KURZ NACH ECKE
IBRAHIM SEIN ENDE FAND
WER WOHL BRACHTE IHN ZUR STRECKE
MEUCHELND MITTELS MÖRDERHAND?

WARUM UNS IBRAHIM VERLIESS?
WEIL KHEBABSPIESS IHM LICHT AUSBLIES!

[anthrobabe]

Oh boy Swato that's a tough one this am--- gotta cut and paste the entire thing to babel fish or something


so the type of doner kebab we are talking about would be along the lines of
this but really disgusting as it has sauce and stuff on it too.....
funny- when I went to Wiki and looked up doner kebab I thought one of the photos was of a roasted elephant foot/lower leg- but it is actually a mystery meat roast

traumatic- yes, traumatic food

[Sibling Chatty]

Not if you don't eat it with harissa sauce--and don't batter fry it!!

(A Monte Cristo is all the bad things you can do to food in one disgusting package. The typical one is a grease pit with jelly on it. Bleagh.)

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Blegh.
Every time I see 'doner' I immediately think of the Donner party.
Gyros I like. Pita sammitches I like. Doners, I've never had, I think.

Today's random fact: Sodium benozate (a commonly found preservative in many foods) breaks down into benezine, which causes leukemia.

[Swatopluk]

I think Babelfsih would be rather useless with "Ibrahim" (i.e. more so than usual) but maybe I should try.

Edit:

IBRAHIM - A PROUD TURK POWER RABAZZ AT KHEBABSTAND BECAUSE THE SALAD IT AND GEGUERKE NEVERTHELESS NO MEAT IN THE FLADEN FOUND VIGOROUSLY IT EMPTIES ITS RAKI GRIMMIG TREMBLES ITS BLACK BEARD HURRIES TO THE GREEK EATS SOUVLAKI! KEBABWIRT THIS HARD MEETS. ON THE WAY HOME - SHORT AFTER CORNER IBRAHIM ITS END FOUND WHO WELL-BEING BROUGHT IT TO THE DISTANCE MEUCHELND MEANS MURDERER HAND? WHY IBRAHIM LEFT US? BECAUSE KHEBABSPIESS IT LIGHT BLEW OUT!

Why does it translate "er" (=he) as 'it' repeatedly? Why does it not know "grimmig"? (=grimly, furiously). "nur" means "only" and I don't know any German word for "well-being" close to it. That it confuses 'macht' (=makes) and 'Macht' (=power) on the other hand is excusable.

[Aggie]

Today's random fact: Sodium benozate (a commonly found preservative in many foods) breaks down into benezine, which causes leukemia.

As a rule-of-thumb, I try to avoid anything with 'benz' in the name; some are harmless, but lots are potentially nasty.  Sodium benzoate is tough to dodge, though - it's in everything. 

Ack!  Vitamin C makes the breakdown worse! 

[Swatopluk]

You could not afford a Benz in any case

[Aggie]

Would not be willing to afford one, anyways.  I like my cars paid off quickly, if not always immediately, and if I wanted luxury I'd be looking at a Genesis when they are available - definitely affordable.

[Griffin NoName]

Did someone mention kebabs?

Kebab questions haunting Home Secretary.

[Pachyderm]

The World's Largest yo-yo resides in the National Yo-Yo Museum in Chico, California. Named "Big Yo," the 256-pound yo-yo is an exact scale replica of a Tom Kuhn "No Jive 3 in 1 Yo-Yo." Fifty inches tall and 31.5 inches wide, the yo-yo is made of California sugar pine, Baltic birch from the former USSR, and hardrock maple. It was first launched in San Francisco on October 13, 1979.

[Sibling Chatty]

There's a real interest in these...

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

[Griffin NoName]

Oooooooh!!  That sort of makes me feel naked.

[Swatopluk]

Interesting. But is it safe in an emergency?