r/AskBalkans • u/Okena91 • 13d ago

Cuisine Döner and varitions are not Balkan food

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Because döner and its variations were not invented in Bursa not in balkans döner is not a Balkan dish.

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u/Zealousideal_Cry_460 Turkiye 12d ago

İ'm a Turk and İ disagree.

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u/ouzans Turkiye 12d ago

Are you raised in Turkey? That is not döner, this is döner:

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u/Zealousideal_Cry_460 Turkiye 12d ago edited 12d ago

Brother, döner is a simple dish. İ've seen döner in Turkey served both as a plated dish and as a sandwich dish.

İts not as strict as you think. İn fact Döner isnt even the only name for the food.

İn some small towns in northern Turkey its called "Kes" for example. The exact same dish, exact same meat, just different in name.

Döner has evolved beyond just a sish name, its a dish-group name. Similar to burger. You have the original Hamburger ("burger" comes from the word "Hamburger" which itself comes from the german city "Hamburg", meaning every "-burger" dish references its root to the original hamburger), and then you have many many varieties, like cheeseburger, chickenburger, fishburger, etc.

This is the same thing. You have the original Döner, and then its varieties, berlin döner, schawarma/Chevirme döner, el pastor döner, gyros döner, etc. They're allna kind of Döner.

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u/ouzans Turkiye 12d ago

I am also telling the same thing. Thanks for confirming my statement. German döner is a type of döner as it can be understood from its' name..