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Mamdani employed the Good Guy Kebab Man to get Trumpie to love him.
Calgary Shawarma. I don’t know his name, but my grandfather was sick and I was stuck at work (working on a phone line repair at the auto shop next door.) Dead of winter, miserable cold. Then my mom calls: Grandpa died. Shawarma guy overheard this, I’m sitting in my van crying. Knock on my window. Guy hands me a Shawarma. “Boss, you should come in to my shop, have some food, get warm. No charge.” He sat and listened to my grandpa stories until I had it together and could go back to finish my job.
Seriously, total stranger, and he was there for me on one of my worst days, and I’ll never forget.
I was 20 years old absolutely broke, living in a rundown flat in Longsight, Manchester during the gang wars, when my funding for university got fucked up.
He saw me sitting at the bus stop outside his shop looking at few pence I had left in my hand while looking at the food. I had only eaten 1 meal that week and had shed 20lbs that month (I was slightly underweight to start with). Before then I had been there 3-4 times per week.
He came over gave me my normal order only twice the size and said to come back the next day for more. He kept me going for 2 months until I could get some financing straightened out.
Omg. NYC is probably going to start to be completely over run by these guys when Zohran takes over! You probably won’t even be able to get a hot dog or a pretzel. It will just be Doner every corner!
I tried a
German Doner Kebabsince they seem to be a chain cropping up everywhere here in the UK. Awful. Terrible. Skimps on the meat. Salad tastes stale. Bread is some weird waffle mix.Never again will I betray my local doner/durum man, for this new weak euro-corpo-bullshit
Wait how do you have a picture of my gyro guy?
Enjoy the interview with Hamid Ali, owner/operator of the Doner Kebab food truck on the No Dishes podcast.
From $100 in his pocket to a successful food truck business.
Adds extra meat with no surcharge (without you asking for it) when you ask for one without salad. Actual King
My guy makes me an all-salad donair sometimes. Works both ways, so awesome. Miss me with the falafel, I require vegetables!
I don’t. Southeastern USA.
They don’t have kebab places in the US (at least not nearly on the same level as they do in Europe). It’s a national tragedy and is probably why things are going so poorly for us.
I think you’re onto something here. I agree.
I mean… they definitely do in many areas. Often some of the best food around.
Yeah, around me they usually use Greek labels, probably because of racism. But still owned and staffed by middle easterners. They’ll have gyros with tzatziki, but also shawarma with tahini.
Yeah we had a place in West Palm that was the absolute tits! Buckets of olives everywhere, and that pickled radish was just out of this world! I was really saddened to see they closed down last time I visited.
I had to look up doner meat and was pleasantly surprised.
I initially read it as Donner meat. (It’s an American thing. You don’t want to know)
Also: is still open after every other restaurant in town has closed for the night.
We moved to Germany. Berlin is a kebab paradise and the people who run those counters rock. They’ll chat with us and our poor German, fix up a great meal, and it’s always tasty to eat.
As a semi-middle eastern person who grew up with access to real Turkish cuisine, seeing German/European style döner makes cry. Not only they dare to put lettuce/cabbage in it at all, it’s like 60% of the content. It took me years to find proper döner in Poland, but now I finally know 2 places.
I have this but with Simit. Done Erasmus in Istanbul (a lifetime ago, before Erdogan), the Simit from the street vendors and small bakeries … Ooof. Haven’t found any that can even remotely compare since 😿
Mit alles und scharf?
Alles er op en er aan alstublieft! - “Everything on and on top please!”
Für mich? Alles und sehr scharf!
Fùr meine Ehefrau? Kein rotkohl und kein scharf, aber beiden gemüse und pommes, bitte.
One of the guys who’ll never give you up, never let you down.
My yyro and falafel guy has an amazing memory for people. He used to be a waiter in his uncle’s Mediterranean restaurant before opening his own place after his uncle retired. People can come into his shop who ate at his uncle’s place one time 15 years ago and he’ll know their name, what they ordered, and if they liked it.
If you customize your order next time you order that item he’ll be like “No onion on the Gyro and an extra pita with the hummus?” if you come in a year later.
And he’s super, super friendly.
