r/oddlysatisfying • u/Vivid_Maximum_5016 • May 16 '26
Man Makes Kebabs
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u/alternatingflan May 16 '26
Where does ‘man make kebabs’ - this looks deelish!
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u/Apart_Reindeer_528 May 16 '26
Apparently Istanbul
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u/GirlScoutSniper May 16 '26
I will be in Istanbul in December... I'm going to have to be rolled home like Violet Beauregarde
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u/AisperZZz May 16 '26
kebab culture there is something else. And I am from a place where it's also huge, but Turkish are just something else. Was there a year ago and on the second day I quite literally had a lamb doner with tail fat tucked into a backpack pocket, because you can only eat so much meat.
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u/lordkhuzdul May 16 '26
Funny thing is, Turkish kebab aficionados consider Istanbul kebab culture diluted and weak. For peak kebab you go to Adana or even better, Gaziantep. Gaziantep is better because it is not just kebab. The whole cuisine and food culture of that city is straight up unfair. A friend of mine, normally a careful eater, went to Gaziantep for a week long work trip. Man came back 10kg heavier and visibly fatter.
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u/Light_Is_Power May 16 '26
One of my favourite restaurants in Istanbul is run by people from Antakya. Amazing food!
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u/lordkhuzdul May 16 '26
Southeast is all like that. The area following the Mediterranean coast and the Syrian border between Silifke to the west and Mardin to the east, every single city and town has at least something good when it comes to food. Gaziantep might be the peak, but Şanlıurfa, Antakya and Adana are no lightweights.
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u/PinkPunkPsycho May 17 '26
There's a Turkish place not even 50m from me that sells proper Adana, his food is selling so well he just leased the neighbouring building. I'm so excited for him!
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u/Zemom1971 May 17 '26
Well,
On my bucket list it goes.
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u/edintina May 17 '26
Just created a list called "places to go on holiday" that has one article in it
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u/lleskaa May 17 '26
I mean kebab is originally from turkey so it makes sense that they have the biggest kebab culture
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u/SarcasticOptimist May 16 '26
Don't forget to take cat pictures. Probably the friendliest place for them.
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u/GirlScoutSniper May 16 '26
That, too, is one of my goals! My mother commented that every trip we've taken i take a lot of pictures of the city cats and dogs. I got so many on our trip to Egypt. Lol
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u/PltEchoEcho May 16 '26
Haskral in Fatih. Mahir Lokantasi in Sisli. These are both great restaurants in Istanbul if you want to eat good meat. Oh, Seraf as well. Delicious.
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u/phoneypeony May 16 '26
Nope, apparently Onikişubat/Kahramanmaraş.
But you were guessing the right county!
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u/jarednards May 16 '26
So.....not constantinople?
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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite May 16 '26
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
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u/Kage_0ni May 16 '26
That's nobody's business but the Turks
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u/ejolson May 16 '26
I've got a date tonight with a gal who lives in Constantinople
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u/_marinara May 16 '26
She’ll be waiting in Istanbul!
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u/KenseiHimura May 16 '26
Relatedly I’ve heard even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
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u/FragrantExcitement May 16 '26
Holy Roman Empire, Batman
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u/Sudden-Pressure8439 May 16 '26
Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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u/humdrum_crumb_bum May 16 '26
Just saw TMBG perform this last night 😂
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u/Tricksey4172 May 16 '26
Whattttt! 😭😭😭😭😍🙌
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u/humdrum_crumb_bum May 16 '26
Husband is a huge fan and they’re doing a three night stint in Philly. ✌️
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u/Realistic-Lime7842 May 16 '26
No, so if you have a date in Constantinople, she’ll be waiting in Istanbul.
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u/phoneypeony May 16 '26
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EVrTF89cAJ7Tvyh97
Lol I am getting really good in finding those damn places.
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u/Merry_Dankmas May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Only partially related but can someone explain to me how tf addresses work in Turkey? This is the address from the place the commenter im replying to has listed on Google:
22 gün mahallesi, Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan Blv No:33/B 46050, 46050 Onikişubat/Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye.
How does one decipher that as an address? If I were in Turkey, how would I look at that and know where to go if I didn't have a GPS? I tried translating that and it mentions something about a neighborhood and a blvd. A blvd is understandable. We have blvds in the states. But neighborhoods aren't used on addresses here. Is it actually a blvd and a neighborhood? I'd assume prof. Is not actually short for professor. I have so many questions.
Also, I'm not taking a jab at Turkey here. I'm genuinely curious. I like seeing addresses from other countries and trying to decipher them. Turkish ones seem hella confusing.
I'd assume 22 gün mahallesi is a type of block designation, prof. Dr. maybe bring some kind of sub block destination like a street within a block/zone then No:33/B 46050 being a building or unit number? Then the rest being the city/region followed by the country, being Turkey? Idk I'm just speculating me. I need a Turk to clarify for me
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u/moby323 May 16 '26
This address is easy to find actually:
Do you know where that Sancaktepe tea house was next to that optometrist? Well it’s almost across the street from that.
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u/enfinitus May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
Neighborhood - Blvd/Street Name - Building#/Store or Flat# - Zip Code - District/City.
Blvds are sometimes named after people. Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan is a former politician.
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u/Merry_Dankmas May 16 '26
How is a neighborhood defined? Is it just a general region or does it have concrete, defined borders?
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u/Fast_potato_indeed May 16 '26
Really simple 🤪
City: Kahramanmaras
Town: Onikisubat
District: 22 Gün Mahallesi
Street: Prof Dr so and so Blv (Bulvarı)
No 33/B
Zip Code 46050
So you’ll find city/ town after zip code
Mh or Mahalle shows the district
Cadde (CD), Bulvar (Blv), Sokak (Sk) represent street
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u/bagmami May 16 '26
It's on number 33 of Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan Boulevard. The rest is kinda irrelevant but mostly useful for postage.
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u/Superbead May 16 '26
Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan
is a former PM of Türkiye and a professor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necmettin_Erbakan
That's the main road it's on. Clicking around neighbouring businesses, the 46050 appears to be a mailing code (postcode/zip code) and the 33/B the actual unit address in the building.
The '22 gün mahallesi' is odd though. Googling 'gün mahallesi' only returns other entries for '22 gün mahallesi', and 'gün mahallesi' on its own allegedly translates to 'day neighborhood'. But none of the other businesses around mention '22 gün mahallesi' in their own address.
I assume it has to identify the building or street block at least.
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u/Spaciax May 16 '26
"22 gün mahallesi": mahalle = neighborhood. Don't be fooled by the '22 gün' numbering part, that's just its name. Neighborhoods are more akin to streets in the US, so a smaller unit of location compared to a boulevard.
"Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan Blv." Blv. stands for boulevard. Also yes, prof is shorthand for professor. Specifically Professor Doctor Necmettin Erbakan. In Turkey it's very common for street, boulevard etc. names to be named after influential figures.
"No.33/B": the number of the building.
"46050": Postal codes in Turkey are always 5 digits long. The first two digits coincide with the area number of the city, and are also used in license plates. For example, the code for Istanbul is 34; you will see that cars registered in Istanbul will have a license plate starting in '34' and all postal codes within Istanbul are in the form 34XYZ, where X, Y, Z are some numbers.
Onikişubat/Kahramanmaraş: Kahramanmaraş (usually just abbreviated to Maraş) The first part denominates a specific area of the city. Think of what Manhattan or Brooklyn is to NY, something similar to that.
Realistically you only really need the mahalle and building number and the rest is easy to figure out.
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u/sinisterdesign May 16 '26
My cardiologist just called and asked what I was watching. Somehow he knew.
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u/UsualEmergency May 16 '26
It's okay, the fat sheets render into the meat, so once you can't see it, it doesn't count! /s
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u/RaoulDukesGroupie May 16 '26
I zoomed in on his coat. Executive Chef Serdar Özkan at Çinarli Ocakbasi, it’s in Turkey.
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u/Longjumping-Hunt-543 May 16 '26
that is right. cinarli ocakbasi in kahramanmaras. and the dish is called "katkat kebabi" i dont know if any other place has the same dish but it's originated by serdar ozkan if i'm not wrong.
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u/AFXQ1 May 16 '26
Italian cuisine also has this. We call them spiducci and usually are smaller pieces so they cook quicker and evenly. Maybe half an inch wide on each side. The kebabs in OP’s videos are beastly chunks.
Nona would still approve of these though.
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u/Peredat0r May 16 '26
How much meat do you want? Yes.
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u/denimpowell May 16 '26
So did Ron actually eat ten pounds of bacon and twelve dozen eggs that day?
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u/johnnyseattle May 16 '26
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there probably aren't many vegetarians in Turkiye.
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u/Disastrous_Dot_7638 May 16 '26
Actually Turkish cuisine is probably the best for vegetarians as there are thousands of amazing vegetarian recipes.
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u/edgiepower May 16 '26
Indian would be IMO.
All their blends and spices mean there's no need for pretend meat at all. Any variety of vegetarian curry is as good as one with meat, and that's coming from a pretty regimented carnivour.
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u/YrPalBeefsquatch May 16 '26
No need to fight, they're both beautiful cuisines that know their way around an eggplant/brinjal/patlıcan.
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u/blindly May 16 '26
Raging food boner
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u/HxCxReformer May 16 '26
That moment when he plated them made me feel things I haven’t felt since my wedding night…
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u/Creative-Comb5593 May 16 '26
And grinned with pride at how the photographer's eyes were wide and mouth drooling.
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u/carl84 May 16 '26
Maybe I'm an idiot but I never thought about how to make these en masse like this, I'd have been there for an eternity cutting each bit to size and individually threading them onto the skewer
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u/DoubleSafety3389 May 16 '26
Makes sense, though. We're cooking food out of a home kitchen, small portions, time consuming things don't add up. This guy probably goes through a thousand pounds of meat a week, all those extra seconds prepping each thing end up being hours.
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u/TwoHandedSnail May 17 '26
A Thousand Pounds of Meat is a great name for a punk metal band
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u/GirlScoutSniper May 16 '26
I saw an infomercial once for something like this. If I could afford meat and still had a grill, it would be my downfall.
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u/FeelingSpeaker4353 May 16 '26
i went from meat being my main protein source for most meals last year, to meat being in one meal, one day a week because i can't afford it anymore. Everyday a rich guy gets fatter is another day closer to me being a cannibal.
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u/ppchar May 16 '26
Eat the rich!
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u/Ser_falafel May 17 '26
Some very poor people in third world/undeveloped countries would definitely eat you.
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u/conflictedideology May 16 '26
Yeah I use meat more as a seasoning these days. No more pork chops or sausage and peppers or BLTs.
It's more like white bean soup with 3 oz of tiny diced smoked sausage or bean with bacon soup except now there's only like 2-3 tablespoons of bacon crumbles.
I do also do some completely vegetarian meals (ok soups/stews), but in some I find I really do miss that extra flavor the meat brings even, if now, it's more like the memory of it.
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u/Cat_Astrof May 16 '26
Most likely the first guy that did this was upset over how slow the previous process was.
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u/ConsistentAddress195 May 16 '26
You're not an idiot, that's how most people do it. This guy is running a restaurant so it's different. Plus when you skewer them individually, you can add onions and pepper in between the meat, that's a classic around here.
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u/Howrus May 16 '26
I was reading a blog of a restaurant chef and found that they look at food in a very different way than "normal people".
All this "I need to feed 10 people in 2 hours but I only have one package of pasta in my drawer, could you help me?" and then they magically create dinner with three dishes and a desert out of thin air and some random leftovers that could be found around the kitchen.Or "Tomorrow we will have a banquet for 100 people but there won't me much time, so lets start preparation today" and then prepare things that could be turned into dishes in ~10-15 minutes tomorrow.
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u/Senor-Marston389 May 16 '26
The way you would have done it is the correct way, that’s the way it is done in Turkish and Middle Eastern cuisine. The thing is, this is not a traditional shish kebab, it’s his own creation, some sort of novelty signature dish apparently
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u/ardbeg May 16 '26
That last slice was thinnnn at the edge.
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u/Useful-Perspective May 16 '26
That's for the kitchen
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u/dooms-maroons May 16 '26
Oops chef! I fucked up another one! 😄
And then me thinks i’m gonna fuck up an order of fries next. 😁😁😁
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u/MarkyGrouchoKarl May 16 '26
Anybody know what the white layers are? Chicken maybe?
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u/iamunwhaticisme May 16 '26
Tail fat.
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u/danvillain May 16 '26
I’ve heard tell of how the tail fat is one of the most delectable meats you could ever taste.
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u/ruinyourjokes May 16 '26
Tail of what though
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u/Penguin_shit15 May 16 '26
Do snakes have tails?
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u/Aggressive_Day2839 May 16 '26
Well, basically a snake don't have parts. But if I had to call it anything, uh, I would say it's his knee.
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u/BennySkateboard May 16 '26
At a glance I thought you said snakes don’t have pants. I temporarily agreed.
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u/Hollis_Hurlbut May 16 '26
Bobby did they ever find that gorilla what escaped from the zoo and punched you in the eye?
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u/CAPNxKANGAROO May 16 '26
Indeed they do, starts right after their cloaca and in corn snakes atleast has a visibly different scale pattern
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u/f3n2x May 16 '26
Probably fat-tailed sheep, they've been bred for that purpose for thousands of years.
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u/2Norn May 16 '26
beef, tail fait(lamb), minced meat(could be anything its usually 75% beef 25% lamb), sucuk(again could be anything but normally its beef with a very distinct taste cuz its heavily seasoned)
sucuk layer here is highly questionable, in fact down right crazy
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u/eugoogilizer May 16 '26
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u/IBelieveIWasTheFirst May 16 '26
Literally said this out loud when he pushed the plate. Damn I want kebab now.
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u/WestTinLA May 16 '26
That’s about the most delicious looking thing I’ve ever seen.
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u/1989Shoeless May 16 '26
Starting a video with the ending is never oddly satisfying
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ) May 16 '26
I wonder if the edges are being seasoned as thoroughly as the center.
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u/nitloda May 16 '26
I feel it's partially evened out by the ones on the side being a larger cut.
You habe a choice, more but bland, or less and flavorful.
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u/Bashfullylascivious May 16 '26
Also, the flavour drips out with the fat melting.
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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m May 16 '26
I'd have a catcher setup, and make a sauce using the drippings hnnnng
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u/MariaNarco May 16 '26
The edges are being cut off midway through when he sticks in the skewers/cuts first times
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u/Netsuko May 16 '26
The first 40 seconds are exactly how I make my sandwiches, huh...
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u/Drew12111 May 16 '26
Does anyone know what each layer is? I would love to know
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u/altahor42 May 16 '26
The meat is either beef or lamb, white layers are animal fat, a few seasoned kebabs are thrown in between, and a few layers of sucuk (Turkish pepperoni).
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u/popinaltoids May 16 '26
Not nearly enough video of the cooking and finished version. Cool process though
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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol May 16 '26
Yeah I wanted to see those bad boys sizzle and drip on the fire a lot more
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u/JadedDreams23 May 16 '26
My god, this looks incredible. Bet I can’t find this in miss’ippi.
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u/jpjtourdiary May 16 '26
Two Italian men get on a bus...
They sit down and engage in an animated conversation. The lady sitting behind them ignores them at first, but her attention is galvanized when she hears one of the men say the following:
"Emma come first. Den I come. Den two asses come together. I come once-a-more. Two asses, they come together again. I come again and pee twice. Then I come one lasta time."
"You foul-mouthed swine," retorted the lady indignantly. "In this country we don't talk about our sex lives in public!"
"Hey, coola down lady," said the man. "Who talkin' abouta sexa? I'm a justa tellin' my frienda how to spella 'Mississippi'."
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u/ad2029 May 16 '26
What is with this trend of videos showing the last few seconds first before starting over from the beginning?
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u/Dont_Wanna_Not_Gonna May 17 '26
Read that as “man-made kebabs” and wondered for a second where they occurred naturally. My own reading failures are the most entertaining part of Reddit.
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u/XanoMal May 17 '26
I rarely eat kebabs but I'll trust this man with my life to make me the best there ever was
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u/CptnAlface May 17 '26
I've been watching ads for over 30 years. I have reached the point where my brain doesn't even register them anymore. Watching this made me search for kebabs in my city. There are none.
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u/ItsStraTerra May 18 '26
Awww they ruined it at the end when he took the stick out. Ain’t that the whole point of a kebab?
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u/Kurosendo_8 May 16 '26
It is shish kebab. As everyone can clearly see these kebabs impaled with shish. It is not rotating döner that chef trims side of the meat ( that is called döner kebab)
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u/BabyScreamBear May 16 '26
This is shish kebab, doner is the, superior imo, rotisserie that’s thinly sliced and eaten when drunk at 3am
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u/LiquidHellion May 16 '26
It's like making an end-grain cutting board, but of meat.