Re: OT: Junk

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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Junk


> 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.
It depends what you mean by skewered.  The kebabs you get in Fish and Chip
shops are slices of lamb and/or chicken served in pita bread, usually with
salad.  They are cooked on a spit, but I'm not sure that counts as skewered.
You describe only one type of Kebab(a Shish kebab).  According to my
dictionary, the word 'kebab' comes from Hindi 'kabaab', which in turn is
derived from Turkish 'kebap', meaning 'roast meat'

>Wraps can contain anything at all.  Conceptually they are closer to
sandwiches.
>
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