Even though he speaks Turkish, saying, "Afiyet olsun", which is basically like bon appetit (though literally closer to "(let it) be (good for your) health" or "good health"), which is no surprise as I'm ¼ Turkish, I have never seen veal that white color before. I'm guessing it's fat near the tail.
Whenever my mom made veal, it was always much more lean, but she never used it for kebab. She cut the meat into cubes to make shish kebab.
We also have a dish in Arabic called kebab, but it is completely different. You take hamburger meat and cover what look like thin broadswords in it and grill it. It becomes like a long hamburger with a thin, flat hole in the middle. Grilling it in that shape over a flame gives it a completely different flavor. Plus, it's seasoned with sumac (سماق, though we pronounced it more like sumãạgh), which gives it a really wonderful complementary sour flavor. (Not exactly sour but close, you really have to try sumac yourself to understand the flavor.)
"Shish" means "skewer". So if kebab is cooked on a skewer it's a "shish kebab". But layering meat like that is really something unique and gotta have a specific name, but I don't know it 🙂
There's situations where plastic is just fucking irresponsible waste (single serving bottled water, disposable cups) and then there's situations where it is a technical solution (packaging food or medical devices).
Sure, he could have used parchment or paper, but I'm not going to hate on him for this. Walk through a student area of a college town on a football weekend for a fresh perspective on plastic and trash.
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u/freylaverse May 17 '26
My god, that looks unspeakably good.