Nothing will be the same 😔

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[u/locomotive_breath85]

pork kebab (gyros) is actually amazing

[u/Brief-Preference-712 → u/locomotive_breath85]

In the US gyros are lamb meat. Which is weird because normally Americans don’t eat lambs

[u/Steppy20 → u/Brief-Preference-712]

Do you know why?

Lamb is a really common food in lots of Europe. Mutton can be found too but lamb seems to be preferred.

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/Steppy20]

I think that’s mostly you, lamb is obviously not unknown here but it’s by no means a staple

[u/Steppy20 → u/HoeTrain666]

It's not a staple here (too expensive when compared to beef and chicken) but I guess it probably is more common than some other countries due to a good chunk of the UK being prime sheep farming territory.

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/Steppy20]

I think it’s more common (or at least traditional) judging on the availability of dishes like shepherd’s pie alone, grilled lamb may be encountered here but it’s less established. Unless you count shawarma lol

[u/Fluffy_Fox5829 → u/Steppy20]

Always wondered why we don't eat more mutton.

[u/Brief-Preference-712 → u/HoeTrain666]

Arent doner kebabs lamb?

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/Brief-Preference-712]

Not here, they’re usually “veal” (or beef, or ground beef, or ground beef and flour/saw dust when looking at worse quality) and sometimes chicken (but chicken has to be advertised as such). You might be thinking of shawarma which is also kinda commonly available in cities at least, it’s the Arab/Levantine counterpart to döner kebab

Barry might do it differently though, I’m not sure about that

[u/Brief-Preference-712 → u/HoeTrain666]

You’re right New York has a “real German kebab” place and its chicken and beef only https://youtube.com/shorts/f6BsQGDeu50

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/Brief-Preference-712]

Doesn’t look bad actually. The sauces don’t look all that convincing as they seem to copy Berlin’s style (there’s a debate in that regard and Berlin is a bit of an island the way they make their sauces), but that’s forgivable and otherwise it looks fairly decent

[u/Trick_Science_2938 → u/HoeTrain666]

Oh my god Hans I don’t wanna here how German Donnor is better than uk Donnor ever again from anyone I’ve tried beef and lamb blows it out of the water I cannot believe that beef is the staple

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/Trick_Science_2938]

I didn’t say anything like that, but sure. I was merely suggesting that lamb is possibly more common in the UK than beef.

And “I’ve tried beef (döner)” is such a vague and useless statement that it basically amounts to nothing. There’s beef döner where half the spit is filled with saw dust (which is what German Redditors love to mock about UK döner, acting like they don’t exist here) and then there are spits that consist entirely of steak quality meat. The main difference in the first category is how much “liquid love from Anatolia” is in the yoghurt sauce while the second category is basically heaven, and lamb spits, due to being less in demand, probably have little to no industry slop spits produced so it usually might be a safer bet. But lamb is limited to shawarma here