Kebab is german? Now we're getting evil yoshida. No it's not, I don't give a duck what you dig up from der spiegel.
Did the ottomans conquer Gemania?
"Before taking its modern form,
as mentioned in Ottoman travel books of the 18th century,[4][5] the döner used to be a horizontal stack of meat rather than vertical, like the
cağ kebabı of
Erzurum.
Grilling meat on horizontal skewers has an ancient history in the
Eastern Mediterranean, but it is unknown when slices of meat, rather than chunks, were first used.
In his own family biography,
Ä°skender Efendi of 19th century
Bursa writes that "he and his grandfather had the idea of roasting the lamb vertically rather than horizontally, and invented for that purpose a vertical
mangal". Since then,
Hacı İskender has been considered the inventor of Turkish döner kebap,
[6][
need quotation to verify]
[5] though he might have been preceded by Hamdi Usta from
Kastamonu around 1830.
[7][8]
With time, the meat took a different marinade, got leaner, and eventually took its modern shape.
[5] It was not until a century later, that döner kebab was introduced and popularized in Istanbul, most famously by
Beyti Güler. His restaurant, first opened in 1945, was soon discovered by journalists and began serving döner and other
kebab dishes to kings, prime ministers, film stars and celebrities.
[9] It has been sold in sandwich form in Istanbul since at least the mid-1960s.
[10]
The döner kebab, and its derivatives
shawarma and
gyros, served in a sandwich, came to world-wide prominence in the mid to late 20th century. The first doner kebab shop in London opened in 1966,
[11] while Greek-style gyros was already popular in Greece and New York City in 1971.
[12]
In Germany, the döner kebab was introduced in 1969 in
Reutlingen,
[13] before being popularized by Turkish
guest workers such as
Kadir Nurman in the early 1970s.
[14] While the claims of multiple persons to have "invented" the döner may be hard to prove,
[15] it is the distinctive style of sandwich that developed there, with abundant salad, vegetables, and sauces, sold in large portions at affordable prices, that would soon become one of the top-selling
fast food and
street food dishes in Germany and much of Europe, and popular around the world.
[16]"
@Galt, it was created here, and this is how its supposed to look. We are the authority on that. Obey.
