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they're great aren't they? felafel being the king. but i even give room for the lowly doner and it's sister chicken elephant-leg thing.

I have categorised this thread as "cuisine" though i think that's pushing it. Once again: this week's theme is... FOOD.

― Alan T, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you want chilli sauce of course

― Alan T, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As someone who speaks Urdu and filmi hindi I must ask: What does "kebabs" mean? Mind you, nowhere near as Cuntdown's insistence in inventing a word called "dacoits", thereby mispronouncing a legitimate word AND pluralising a plural!

― Lek Dukagjin, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the day I left home to go to university my mum looked me in the eye and said 'Emma promise me you won't EVER eat a kebab'. Nothing about not drinking too much / taking drugs / running around with unsuitable men, just 'promise me you won't eat a kebab'. And do you know I have never ever had a kebab. Well a teeny mouthful of a mate's once out of curiosity but that was it. And I have no desire to either.

― Emma, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.alpan.de/Tuerkei/Kueche/doner.gif

― mark s, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum is a very wise woman.

― Emma, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

num num

― Alan T, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum is a happily married woman, keep your comments to yourself please

― Emma, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

covered in garlic and chilli sauce

― Alan T, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Acceptable kebabs = souvlakia and falafel. All kebabs involving the elephant leg business = utterly unacceptable

― RickyT, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i refer my colleague to the answer i gave some moments before with respect to Mrs Hamilton. elephant leg chicken, mmm. i haven't dare try the lamb one since i started eating meat again, but i remember fondly the cheap doners from Omar's in green street (re-named after i graduated as i recall)

― Alan T, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, mate, ya wanna go to Gardies on Rose Crescent. Top Lamb Souvlakia and chip butties w/houmous. Num num num.

― RickyT, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you get cheapo pork souvlaki there like they do it in snack bars in Greece? Cos that is yummy. I've always thought kebabs were quite manly but I've only ever had two or three.

― Tom, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, it takes a bigger man to refuse a kebab than to accept one (not physically bigger necessarily). Just say NO.

― Emma, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom has barely had any kebabs = Tom is Not Manly. No growling out in the woods while beating a drum for you.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK you have mentioned this before Tunnicliffe but I must take UMBRAGE at one point: chips and hummus = UGGGGEEEWWWGHH!!! Mix ye not the chips and hummus! The grease of the chips + the texture of hummus is just WRONG! Chips go with SALT and KETCHUP and BREAD but NOT with DIPS or strange wack 'dressings'!

― i can't even fucking hummus!, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sez she who dips cheese into houmous!

― RickyT, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yummy yummy kebabs. I love 'em. mmmmm mmmmm. Felafel, yes, super tasty.

actually, I think kebabmeat is the only kind of meat worth eating.

― DV, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thread collision:

Kebabs (17 new answers, last on July 26, 2002) "so drunk i can't remember" (52 new answers, last on July 26, 2002)

I gave up eating kebabs when I found the only memory I had of the doner the night before was a chili sauce stain on my shirt and a very, very bad taste in my mouth.

I should add that this is now more than a decade ago.

― Tim, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most repulsive Kebab shop ever = Singers in Oxford. There was this weird hot/acrid smell that emanated from the place all the time that made consumption of any food nearby nigh on impossible. The sign that advertised the goods on sale finished with the word 'foul'. This was generally thought to be highly appropriate.

― RickyT, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kebabs=great

trying to eat them without spilling them all over yourself if you're messy eater Ronan=very difficult.

eating them in front of other people (like most food)=horrible.

― Ronan, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

as my mom's family's armenian we eat waaaaay too much shish kebab. i HATE lamb. (we also have homemade falafel but doesn't it have to be on a stick to be a kebab? ours isn't on sticks.) i have no experience with the fast-food version of the kebab, but it souds interesting if it is mythical enough to strike fear into emma's mother.

― Maria, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Falafel on a stick?? Is this a Britsh thing like Eggy Bread??

Tonight I'm gonna try to make a Carmel Corn Kebab.Everything tastes better on a stick!!!

― brg30, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I nearly bought a flat above a kebabish recently, but the survey was disastrous. The last kebab I had was nearly two years ago, in Istanbul. That seems a perfect place to have last had a kebab, so I may not have another until I go back there.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do not live above a kebab shop! I did so between Dec 93 and Jan 96.

Huge barrels of rancid fat left outside the rear entrance (ie right beside the *only* entrance to our abode) in the middle of summer. Not to mention the crates of freshly delivered carrots, onions and lettuce left parked at the door of the filthy outside toilet. A truly revolting experience but we were broke and the rent was cheap.

And the feckers used to nick our mail in search of cash as well. Arg.

― Venga, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i love kebabs, the whole process. it's 2am..
"large doner please, boss"
"coming up, boss"
"cheers boss"
....

..
"oh, and a can od dr pepper please boss"
"chilli sauce boss?"
"everything boss"
"three seventy boss"
"cheers boss!"

― matthew james, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely there are two types of Kebab - the one syou eat when very drunk which are great just as long as you are very drunk, butactually best avoided. And then there's the actual nice ones you get in places like Zaytoon in Dublin. I eat those sober.

― Winkelmann, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not only do I dip cheese in hummus, but also carrots and spring onions! It is far better than dipping GREASY CHIPS in hummus.

Strangely enough in an odd ILE/IRL crossover, when our boss was buying us lunch the other week, we got round to talking about kebabs and their all over the face amazing properties of waking up and having some dodgy lettuce clinging to yr bonce. Urg.

Oh yeah and there is no such thing as a falafel kebab! There is falafel and hummus in pitta but it does not a kebab make. I am GUTTED cos the place that used to do lovely falafel and hummus by Leicester Sq has now turned RUB and now I do not know where to go for nice falafel. COISES.

― Sarah, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Acceptable things to dip in falafel: pitta bread, veggie crudite type things e.g. carrots, peppers, celery etc, falafels. That is ALL. Oh yes and fingers.

― Emma, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but kebab (many would argue in the same way as "curry") is by consensus used to refer to a much wider taxonomy of related foods including stuff wrapped up in pita. i reckon

― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and i should add: i can't even fucking hummus

― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ALANG IN UNABLE TO HUMMUS SHOCKAH!!

― katie, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you dip stuff in falafel?

― RickyT, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh bugger I was getting my chick pea products confused. I meant houmous / hummus / however you choose to spell it. I blame the alcohol.

― Emma, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i are thinking emma meant houmous! and chips in houmous are RIGHT AND PROPAH. rickyT can we go to gardies now pleeeeeeease???

― katie, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RIGHT this place is in Cambridge innit - I am going to Cambridge this weekend so how do I find it? (No chips and hummus for me though, urgh it must be a cambridge STEWDENT thing, URRRRRGHHH - seriously, don't you get the GREASE horror????)

― Sarah, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it will find you. no seriously Rose crescent is right in the centre and will be on any map of the town you find.

gardenia rose to scendance in the aftermath of Omar's being renamed. Omar's WAS THE KEBAB place at one time. green street RULES.

― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh? Gardies = sundanece = omar WOT? Can you please put that a bit clearer?

― Sarah, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rose Crescent curves between the north side of the Market Place and Trinity Street. It is dead easy to find.

― RickyT, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gardies = THE GARDENIA, a greek type food outlet on Rose Crescent, which comes off the marketplace in the middle of town. "scendance" = alang mistyping "ascendance" i believe! "omar" i have never hear of this either, must have been BEFORE MY TIME alang is now feeling about 67 years old hahaha!

― katie, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh eck. Omar's was the name of a kebab shop in green street. when i came back to do my postgrad (PGCE) the re-named Omar's was being shunned in favour of the lovely gardenias (it's JUST a coincidence that they pay rent to the college i went to). (ASCENDANCE = rubbish phrasing combined with worse typing sorry)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know why i keep reading these foodie threads when lunch is two hours away and i can't get elephant-leg chicken here in new jersey anyways. fuck it, i'm moving to england.

― Dave M., Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MMMMMMMMMM! Kebabs/Gyros! MMMMMMMMM! GIMME GIMME GIMME!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

British kebabs sound awful. There are some bluddy nice places in Auckland [circa K'rd. some even do decent espresso] that are nice and also cheap. ergo, brilliant even while sober. Pre-gigging kebabs always make me paranoid i reek of onion tho.

― petra jane, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Num places to eat in Auckland? Noted! :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I moved from Cologne to Frankfurt, döner increased dramatically in price and decreased dramatically in quality. Oh, sadness.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

<3 KEBAB IN NAAN BREAD SO FUCKING AWESOME

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 23 February 2008 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,810 for "dodgy kebab". (0.04 seconds)

― Aimless, Saturday, 23 February 2008 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

That low? Blimey

― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 23 February 2008 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes nothing beats a donner kebab. Spiced minced lamb! Perfect. Salad and sauces, perfect. Emma wont let me ever have them.

― Scik Mouthy, Saturday, 23 February 2008 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

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― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:36 (seventeen years ago)

Ha yeah maybe you should listen to nate. I have only done it once and I must have gotten lucky.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

yeah special occasions only xp

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

No wai, good plate of home cooked chips, sausages, peas, giant pool of ketchup = satisfaction.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

I'm with G00blar; chips are like Draught Guinness; I go out for them, and stay in for wine and potatas bravas.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

y'ponce

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

who can be arsed to clean up after deep frying? Not to mention the smell.

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

especially when the bar for satisfying chips out in the world is set pretty fucking low

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

I mean I know there's a lot of awful chips out there, but the ones that are good don't exactly cost a fortune once you've found them.

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

Olive oil btw is essential for a good shallow-fried chip.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:41 (seventeen years ago)

i dont think you can get olive oil hot enough

― t_g, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

It cooks mah spuds just fine.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:44 (seventeen years ago)

yeah olive oil gets pretty hot, don't you worry

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

As long as you don't use extra-virgin

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

Olive oil goes hotter than most other fats, doens't it?

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/CollectedInfo/OilSmokePoints.htm

Anyway my problem with most kebas = pitta stuffed full of meat, shoved into poly box and heaped with salad. Impossible to eat unless seated with a fork and even a knife. Kebabs from the vans in Oxford (last time I checked which was hella long time ago) adequately fill the pitta with meat and salad, no box needed, can be eaten handheld.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

Going out for chips isn't an option, there doesn't seem to be any decent chip shops in Cardiff.

I think type of potato is more important than type of oil - use King Edwards or Maris Pipers.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:50 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I don't fuck with kebabs in a box, unless it's a sit-down joint, like Ronan's upthread seems to be. Al-Dar (there's one on Edgware Rd, one on Kensington High St I think?) puts pickles in theirs to great effect.

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Nick no - corn and vegetable oil gets hotter before burning than olive oil does - and extra-virgin starts smoking the quickest

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Best chips are from a Pakistani chip shop, with all the spices from the pakora mixed in the grease

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

you basically haven't eaten chips till you've been to islamabad.

― A Good Story (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:56 (seventeen years ago)

lol "chip blanket"

― Local Garda, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

That sounds awesome Tracer. Pls recommend Pakistani chipshop immediately okthxbye.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

try glasgow more

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

I have yet to find an oven chip that's even close to satisfying in the way that a good fried chip is. There's something cardboardy about all oven chips and even loads of vinegar and brown sauce doesn't save them.

― treefell, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

damn straight. wd rather have no chips than oven chips.

― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.zwani.com/graphics/princess_diva/images/princess-in-training.gif

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

altho i'm not arguing that oven chips can ever really match ACTUALLY GOOD fried chips

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

stevem with the zing, this is some prima donna bullshit.

― A Good Story (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

xpost
It doesn't stop me eating oven chips - they're just not very good.

― treefell, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

Look I'm professionally working class and when I grew up we had a proper bloody chip pan.

That said, I reckon the reason chip shops were so popular in the first place was cos they were better done by somebody with a big fryer rather than doing them at home. I've got nothing against frozen potato product, I'd just rather have waffles or smiley faces or anything rather than oven chips tbh.

― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2515/chunky-oven-chips

― DJ Khaledonian Thistle (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

Ordering food in the pub and it turning up served with oven chips is the worst. Stand up the Old Nick in Holborn I am looking at you.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

"potato wedges"

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

We do something like that Gordon Ramsay recipe. They work pretty well, a lot nicer than McCains, but imo they're more of an easy roast potato than a chip.

― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

was gonna say; there's nothing wrong with roast potatoes

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

Pro tip - you can microwave the raw potatoes instead of blanching them, works just as well.

― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

For quick chips I mean, not for roasties.

― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

I must not go to the chippie on the way home

― treefell, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

ilx food threads are always the frontingest threads

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

ilx food threads are always the frontingest threads

― Bondzilla vs Mechaholmes (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:21 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

We're like film threads with basic social skills.

― DJ Khaledonian Thistle (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

not sure which is more gay tho

― A Good Story (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

ILX food threads are one of two reasons there is an ILX, due to NOM NOM threadjacking in early ILM.

Chips from Fryer's Delight 100m away are done in beef tallow, yum. Can do oven chips for frites but only if involving lots of salt and oil in the oven stage. Always have Fryer's Delight leftovers to chop and adulterate into home fries the next day, which brings us to breakfast.

Ah, the fried potato CIRCLE OF LIFE.

― Choom Gang Gang Dance (suzy), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

Just had my first ever chiken kofte. Surpsied it took so long. anyway am now happy to state

kofte > shish > doner

chicken or lamb left to individual perference, altho lamb shld probably be preferred for animal welfare reasons. but i licke chicken.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

lamb's also better for flavor reasons, dude

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

techincally i wld agree but there is something satisfying about chicken that makes it the choice of choice frm time to time.

― talk me down off the (ledge), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

i'm not so into the "ground meat pressed around a stick" thing

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:09 (seventeen years ago)

pita kitchen in sherman oaks = brilliant, esp for lamb/beef shawarma (i usually get the plate, which is about $9 for a heaping portion of meat, rice, pita, hummus, and cucumber salad).

http://www.thepitakitchen.com/

― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Thursday, 29 January 2009 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

Washing out the grease trays of the kebab machine at the end of the night was pretty grim when I used to work in a kebab shop. As was having a bath when I got in then having another one when I got up to get rid of the still lingering smell of stale grease.

― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 29 January 2009 09:22 (seventeen years ago)

ate massive gyro today in honor of this thread

― Dan I., Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:25 (seventeen years ago)

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