Re: CHAT: The Alex Charalabidis Guide to Souvlaki

From:    John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> A "doner" is another name for "gyros" (the Turkish original, I
> presume) and a term more widely used in the city centre rather than in
> the neighbourhood "souvlatzidiko."
It is indeed from Turkish, though the first vowel is a front mid
rounded one.  Most big German cities are littered with little stores
advertising Döner-kebap; in Berlin, the (non-Turkish) locals eat them
like Americans eat hamburgers, or indeed more frequently.  Also oddly:
they stand-up while doing so.

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