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JCC Doner kebab 'inventor' dead

Discussion in 'Community' started by danmcken, Oct 26, 2013.

  1. danmcken

    danmcken Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    The Turkish immigrant credited with inventing the doner kebab has died in Berlin aged 80.
    Kadir Nurman set up a stall in West Berlin in 1972, selling grilled meat and salad inside a flat bread.
    He had noticed the fast pace of city life and thought busy Berliners might like a meal they could carry with them.
    While there are other possible "doner inventors," Mr Nurman's contribution was recognised by the Association of Turkish Doner Manufacturers in 2011.
    The combination of juicy meat, sliced from a rotating skewer, with all the trimmings and optional chilli sauce, has since become a firm fast-food favourite in Germany, and elsewhere.
    According to the Berlin-based Association of Turkish Doner Manufacturers in Europe, there are now 16,000 doner outlets in Germany.
    More than 1,000 exist in Berlin to tempt peckish late-night revellers on the capital's streets.
    German companies producing the meat and the machinery for grilling supply 80% of the EU market, the BBC's Steve Evans reports from Berlin.
    Mr Nurman, who emigrated to Germany in 1960, did not patent his invention, and thus did not particularly profit from the doner's subsequent success.
    But in a 2011 interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau, he expressed little bitterness.
    He was happy that so many Turkish people were able to make a living from doners, he said, and that millions of people ate them.
     
  2. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Juliet?
     
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  3. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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    I'm don't even understand half that text wall to be quite frank.
     
  4. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    LatvianPotatoFarmer?
     
  5. darthcaedus1138

    darthcaedus1138 Force Ghost star 5

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    I just saw Doner Kebab and inventor dead and got really sad. Had those things in Germany and they are awesome.
     
  6. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    Shwarma guy still fine?
     
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  7. Alpha-Red

    Alpha-Red Chosen One star 7

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    I saw "German" and underneath it, Nurman, and my mind fused the two words together into "Grumman" (as in the aircraft company).
     
  8. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    I saw "Doner" and thought of Donner's Pass. I wouldn't want to have been eating those kebabs.
     
  9. Aytee-Aytee

    Aytee-Aytee Jedi Master star 5

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    SHPADOINKLE!
     
  10. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Do you not get these in the US?

    Jesus, they're a 50/50 on hangover prevention. Sometimes so perfect. Othertimes, why? WHY?
     
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  11. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    OH GOD NO

    I mean it. Kebab is heavenly food.
     
  12. Eeth-my-Koth

    Eeth-my-Koth Jedi Grand Master star 9

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    RIP Darthboy's father.
     
  13. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    i love my dead gay doner kebab inventor
     
  14. I Are The Internets

    I Are The Internets Shelf of Shame Host star 9 VIP - Game Host

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    BONER KEBAB
     
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  15. FatBurt

    FatBurt Sex Scarecrow Vanquisher star 6

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    I'm at work tomorrow so I am unable to partake in this delicacy due to lingering food odours (even after teeth brushing and showering etc...) I will however have a Donner next Friday in honour of this mans memory.
     
  16. Sarge

    Sarge Chosen One star 10

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    I had some good doner kebabs in Turkey. But the best ones I ever had were in a little shop at an airfield in northern Iraq. As soon as we parked the plane, we'd send the navigator running in to order them, hoping desperately he'd get back before we finished loading cargo.

    OK, yeah, my war wasn't exactly hell.

    Man, those things were good. Sigh.
     
  17. jp-30

    jp-30 Manager Emeritus star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Prefer Souvlaki.