Re: OT: Junk

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
> > As to my souvlaki/wraps comment, I wasn't meaning that they were
> > identical, just that they were a similar idea.
>
> I can't see how.  Kebabs are skewered and grilled, and served either on
> or off the skewer, so they have to have ingredients (like lamb chunks,
> onion chunks, and pepper chunks) that survive that treatment.  Wraps
> can contain anything at all.  Conceptually they are closer to sandwiches.
While in English, 'kebab' normally refers to shish-kebabs, which are
skewered, they can _also_ refer to something more souvlaki like. The Kebab
Centre at my Uni sells kebabs which rather sandwich like (chicken or lamb
roasted on a spit, in long, flat, wide roll made out of turkish bread with
lettuce and raw onion (and, if you can get it in your mouth, which I
can't, raw tomato). Only the meat is cooked). (They're nice, but I
wouldn't be surprised if the lamb was human meat... they charge an arm and
a leg.)

Other places sell things more similar to souvlaki.

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