Comments

1. Richard

   Thursday 30 August 2007 at 23:07

   If it’s bacon then it must be anti-imperialist.

2. girondistnyc

   Friday 31 August 2007 at 6:13

   Never mind the hummus and the shawmara, what about the fact that the Greeks and the Turks can ethnically cleanse each other in the wake of Severes and then stare across the line in Cyprus for decades, but Doner and Gyros are same damn thing, and Raki and Uzo are indistinguishable. Mind you, don’t tell them this. Also, everyone in the Balkans loves burek in between warfare and rioting at the water polo.

   Personally, I prefer a turkish doner with red sauce to a gyro with white and think that (generally) Persian expats make better versions of the dishes that arab expats make. But I alternate between kosher and halal felafel in NY all the time and can never tell the difference…

3. sphinx

   Friday 31 August 2007 at 16:34

   While we were walking around Palestine getting abducted by random militias and shit we were joking about how anti-imperialists boycott the shit out of coca-cola (even though hella Palestinians drink it), making Pepsi the anti-imperialist cola, lol.

4. Barbara

   Saturday 1 September 2007 at 17:26

   what about the fact that the Greeks and the Turks can ethnically cleanse each other in the wake of Severes and then stare across the line in Cyprus for decades, but Doner and Gyros are same damn thing, and Raki and Uzo are indistinguishable.

   Rick Stein nearly got it in the neck last week on his Med cooking show when he was in Turkey for remarking on the similarities between the cuisines. Also there is this savoury drink made with yoghurt and water they have

   Stein: It’s like - Its Exactly like Lassi! Like they have in India!

   Turkish guide: No. NO ITS NOT.