Re: CHAT Re: Souvlaki (was most looked-up words)

On Dec 8, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Dan Sulani wrote:
> Are you kidding, Steg??! Felafel is _food_! (I often have one for
> lunch!)
> Shawarma, OTOH, is what put the "junk" into "junk-food"! ;-)
> Seriously! IME, the "meat" that they press together into a cylinder
> is odds and ends that the meat producers couldn't get rid of any other
> way.
> It is usually somewhat tough and totally tasteless! To remedy that,
> on top of the rotating cylinder of "meat", the schawarma vendors
> usually
> put a huge glob of fat (presumably beef or lamb). While the "meat"
> turns beside the vertical grill, the fat melts bit by bit and makes
> its way
> onto the stuff below, thus imparting any flavor one might taste!
> (Sometimes they add an onion to the fat on top so that it too can
> dribble down some flavor!)
>    In the past, I used to eat schawarma on occasion. I can't anymore!
> :-P
Hey, i never said anything about junk food ;) i just called them all
_fast_ food!
You're making me want to stop eating shawarma :P although i haven't
really had any for a while... there's a great place back in New York
though that's open very late where me and friends would go for
"midnight shawarma" on saturday night.

> Regarding the "salad" add-ons, Steg, IMHO you pretty much covered it.
> By "hharif" do you include the Yemmenite "sxug" (spelling?).
> If so, it's worth noting that there are two types: red and green.
> Contrary to what one might expect, the red one is only hot.
> The green stuff will kill you! ;-)
I might mean /sX\ug/, not sure... i've always heard it just refered to
as |hharif| in restaurants; i've only seen /sX\ug/ labled as such in
little containers in supermarkets.

>    You also left out pickled hot peppers (the pale green ones).
> I love them in my felafels.
> Dan Sulani
That is hard-core! :P  kol hakavod!
I can barely stand squeezing the juice out onto shawarma/felafel and
slowly nibbling away at one of those peppers! :)


-Stephen (Steg)
  "Get into the Hanukah spirit everyone!
   The spirit of guerrilla warfare!"
      ~ my brother, co-creator of the conlang ool-Nuziiferoi

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