Anything interesting happening?

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

quite common these days.
also what's happened to kebab's they are not as nice as they used to be.

I blame the introduction of those kebab shaving things

Some decades ago when I was skint, on the dole and squatting, someone showed me these cheap Turkish pizzas you could get in the kebabies. About two quid.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[redgunamo]

Some decades ago when I was skint, on the dole and squatting, someone showed me these cheap Turkish pizzas you could get in the kebabies. About two quid.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

That's what I had, the Lahmacun. They fill it up with meat and salad and all the fixings and then roll it up in foil.

Costs about twice as much as a doner nowadays.

[redgunamo]

You went to a kebab shop and had a pizza? How interesting...

It was incredible! I can't stop talking about it.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

That's what I had, the Lahmacun. They fill it up with meat and salad and all the fixings and then roll it up in foil.

Costs about twice as much as a doner nowadays.

That's the bugger. Though it was much cheaper than a kebab back in the '90s. That's why I could afford one back then. Other than that once in a blue moon, I only ate at greasy spoons. The one on the corner of Mare St and Brenthouse Rd.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

And a pint.

For me, the kebab (or indeed some kind of pizza from a kebab shop) is one of the stages of post beer recovery.

Step one - Finish drinking, leave the pub
Step two - Go outside, get some fresh air and assess whether it is worth walking from the pub or if an Uber is needed (depending on distance and how drunk I am.
Step three - Stop for food on the way back, stodgier the better.
Step four - Get home, drink a pint of water.
Step five - Go to sleep.

The idea of adding a beer into step three doesn't make sense to me.

[WES]

That's what I had, the Lahmacun. They fill it up with meat and salad and all the fixings and then roll it up in foil.

Costs about twice as much as a doner nowadays.

Mangal doner appazza

Not available a Paris, I'm not happy

[redgunamo]

Mangal doner appazza

Not available a Paris, I'm not happy

Invented in Germany apparently, the Doner. Who knew.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Mangal doner appazza

Not available a Paris, I'm not happy

When I was living in St Michel on the left bank in '95, we used to walk past Notre Dame every night and go to the Kebab area at Chatelet cos one sold Huit Six under the counter and another sold Marlboro Rouge {which I normally hate, but there was no other choice as it was what most people smoked back then.}

So given all the tabacs and allies {alimentations, or baras, (pl.) verlan for arab, as in arab shops} were shut by then, we could go and get our beer and fags from the Chatelet kebab shops until 6am.

I can't find anywhere near where I stay to get a beer after 4am - there's a shop in Bastille open until then but nothing later. 2-3 years ago, I went to see if there were still kebabies in Chatelet selling cans at 5 in the morning but there didn't seem to be the kabab area there any more.

Have you ever had a look? Wouldn't be far from the Frog and Rosbif.

I remember listening to the end of the Euro 2004 final on the radio, playing on our babyfoot table outside our truck on some site or at some small festy down Toulouse way. I remember the French commentators thinking it great, they were saying that all the Sandwiche Grec shops in Chatelet must be buzzing and fans in Paris should go there to join the fun and buy a kebab. Guess it made up for the French defeat in the QFs.