Doner card
Kadir Nurman, a Turkish migrant to Germany who was credited with inventing
the doner kebab, has died at the age of 80. Although grilled meat carved from a skewer was already popular in Turkey, Nurman added salad and served it in a flat bread; and thus was born a staple of fast-paced life in West Berlin, and drunken pub chuck-out time the length-and-breadth of England.
But what most surprised me about this story, more than that anyone could claim to have invented something simply by serving it in bread,* is that there is actually an Association of Turkish Doner Manufacturers in Europe. And it's based in Berlin, no less.
Verily, thou dost live 'n' learn. Innit.
* Of course, the sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, but eating meat in bread probably predates him by centuries.