• MrGeneric@lemmy.today
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    The way I heard it, great potato famine wasn’t as big a deal as the extreme exploitation, colonization, and failure of industrialization as well as landlords and religious apartheid that began earlier.

    Which very much surprised me.

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      Exploitation led to potato being relied upon near exclusively due to how cheap it was per calorie. So when the famine hit, it affected many places but it affected Ireland uniquely severely.

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    What has kekab to do with potatoes? Don’t get near my kebab with those abominations.

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      In various places with turkish diaspora, the locals treat it as a generic takeway, so various other things are served that aren’t part of turkish cuisine, like chips, pizza, maybe fried fish.

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        Turkish people remind me of the Chinese in a way, they know how to adapt their cuisine to meet whatever the locals like. There are a handful of very successful bagel shops run by Turkish people near where I live.

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      In Armenia, they put potatoes into shawarma (a more common name for durum/kebab), so it’s a little bit of everything: meat, veggies, potatoes, sauce. But it’s non-essential and not a lot would change if it’s removed.

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        Years ago I’ve ate one with fries in Italy. It was okay ish. I mean its extra fat salt and carbs added so it must be.

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        I’ve never seen that, but it was my first guess as well. People here are already doing Doner-boxes with fries, meat and sauce in a takeout box, I’m assuming for people under doctor’s orders to eat a veggie-free high-grease and high-sodium diet.

    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      some places use french fries for volume instead of cabbage/coleslaw. Ngl, they be cookin, potatoes absorb the sauce and the meat juice, making it incredibly more tasty.

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      In Belgium, fries are added to the Dürüms. Surprisingly good. But in Berlin where Döner Kebab is at home, potatoes in the Dürüm is a special dish that only some places even have on the menu. I wonder where OP is from

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        But in Berlin where Döner Kebab is at home

        Listen here you Open Suse using Hans, Berlin is where the kebab is living at the moment… abroad. The home is somewhere in the ottoman empire.

        In Belgium, fries are added to the Dürüms.

        Goddamnit. There is only one awesome european hybrid kebab, and it’s the dutch kapsolon; Gouda Cheese and Döner Kebap, together at last.

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          Akschually, while the döner was invented by a turkish immigrant it was invented in berlin making berlin its home

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            Not really, döner sandwiches have existed before that, and this is Germans trying to take unjust credit.

            EDIT : If Döner is German, how come no ethnic Germans are cooking it? Turning Point Kebab

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        And I whish even less had it on their menu. I have had more that one dürüm ruined by such additions. Sometimes without asking and sometimes because I forgot how much I hated it the last time.

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          Okay without asking is a crime, but Gemüse Döner with greasy fried potatoes, zucchini and carrots is delicious and you can’t change my mind :D

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    If potatoes disappeared, i would probably just not eat potatoes. May need to eat more bread because of it, from 94.3% of all food i eat to 94.6% of all food i eat

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    You guys would be amazed how much potato meal is used for

    Potato starch goes into paper and board manufacturing, textiles, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, and also food as a thickener.

    Some potatoes are also fermented into alcohol (vodka) or bioethanol

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    Doner with potato? WTF. Where I come from, “Döner” is meat and vegetables in flatbread, I don’t see where potato is supposed to come in.

    Either way, before potatoes were introduced in my country, most people ate bread or grain-based porridges/gruels with every meal. Since it was usually wholegrain, that might even have been healthier than peeled potatoes.

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    Depends on how you define, “potato.” There are some really similar tube roots, like sweet potato and batatas. Taro, beets, parsnips and other veggies make really good chips.