Sunday, August 11, 2002

donner kebops

It seems that all of east Berlin exists on these things called donner kebops. What are those? you ask. They are these things that have shawarma meat in them (usually chicken) and the regular salads and sauces, all in this funny square or triangle shaped bread. Most of them are made by immigrants from Turkey, and ocassionally by people from Arab countries.

For some reason many of the places that serve these things look seedy, perhaps because they all have some sort of electronic jackpot machines, or because they are all cheap and attract old creepy-looking people, or perhaps because they all just seem dark, and people feel free to bring their dogs into the stores with them.

By the way, although all the dogs here are fairly friendy, they have no concept of leash laws. That just creeps me out. Also they seem to just go in to all the stores and hang out there. Sometimes it reminds me of a farside cartoon with a few animals in a bar just hanging out with each other.