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Depends. Going for a stroll early enough in the morning, I've seen people hoisting the large mounds of meat on a spit while unwravelling a hilariously large sheet of plastic wrap from it. Other times I've seen people 'build' the spit by adding layer upon layer of thin pieces of meat. If you get lucky with one of those places, and the vegetables are fresh, I guess that's fair enough if not still quite greasy.
I'm not sure how far I trust the fries or the little sausages, cevapcici, and the perfectly round falafel balls, though.
The rest also depends now that I am remembering my time in Germany. Most of the falafel in places was crap and usually was found at the same places that had processed meat on a split. However, there were always lots of independent Lebanese restaurants and "imbiss" that had fresh made falafel.
Admittedly, I did enjoy the processed doner meat. It was a bit salty but had a good taste especially if one was use to gyro meat in North America.
Here is an article about the differences in fast/processed food in USA and Europe: How Food Companies Exploit Americans - 100 Days of Real Food
in short:
US brands are reformulated for sale in Europe - without banned ingredients, GMO’s, chemicals, additives, artificial ingredients, and/or carcinogens, less salt and sugar.
The US food industry has already formulated safer, better products, but they are selling only inferior versions of these products here.
More than "fast food" I would call our one "street food" (so food that you can eat while walking, in practice)
Our street food changes a lot region by region, and overall it is not so bad. For example the "Focaccia ligure" (in particular the "focaccia di Recco") from Liguria, the "Piadina" from Romagna, the "Arancini" from Sicily are really good. Street foods could change a lot from place to place, for example in my valley and in the other Valleys of Piedmont near the French border one common street food is the "gofri", that in practice is our version of the waffle.
Street foods could change a lot from place to place, for example in my valley and in the other Valleys of Piedmont near the French border one common street food is the "gofri", that in practice is our version of the waffle.
I had never heard of gofri until last christmas while wandering in Turin i've found this place (http://http://www.cibodistrada.it/lo...ia-piemonteisa), i still regret not trying them, they looked yummy, well there's still next time. Not even my relatives living there knew about it though.
One thing has to be clarified when *comparing* fast food in the USA and *fast food* in Europe.
Almost all of the *fast food* in the USA has been preprocessed !
Almost all of the Fast Food in Europe is made right there in place.
Very little pre-processed (except for the US Chains available there)
About the only item in the USA that could be compared to in Europe,
are the Mexican food stands on some corners of a street or parking lot.
Last but not least, I would never call it *German Doner Kebab*.
It never was and never will be German !! (if made correctly)
The name should be: döner kebab in Germany !! It is a Turkish delight and always will be Turkish !!
funny though that Turkish food suppliers and restaurants IN TURKEY actually buy turkish-german ingredients because the quality is much higher than it is in Turkey...
whilst the kebab itself has Turkish ancestry you will find that the german kebab is indeed a german invention and 'developed' to suit german taste-buds.
Well, nowadays you'll find three types of snack shacks in Vienna:
- Traditional sausages: The better ones offer up to 8 varieties.
- (Döner) Kebab/Dürüm/Pizza
- Fried noodles
Regionally you can find stalls dedicated to:
- Leberkäse
- Bosna/Bosner and/or "Kafka": My all time favourite. Unfortunately, nowhere to be found in Vienna...
- Cordon Blue in a bun: That's a thing in Graz. Delicious.
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Originally Posted by irman
The name should be: döner kebab in Germany !!
It is a Turkish delight and always will be Turkish !!
IMO it's pretty much a thing on it's own and pretty different to Döner Kebab elsewhere in Europe (read: superior to elsewhere in Europe; and that's about the only time I'd admit that the Germans cook better than anyone else.)
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