Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Over here, "doner" is spelled "donair" and there are many places specializing in it.
Oh dear... I am aware that English speakers may struggle with the 'ö' and 'ü', which are also in use in Turkish, so I can excuse the "doner" spelling, but I never ever saw "donair" before... it seems so wrong.
However, I naturally now had to look up the proper Turkish pronunciation of the dish:
It actually kind of sounds a bit like a French pronunciation of "donair" - which seems to be more accurate than the common German pronunciation, which would stress the first syllable instead. So I guess the Germans get the spelling right, and the Canadians get the pronunciation.
I have been wondering before how döner is commonly pronounced in English, especially after encountering a British-made cartoon in a flash game depicting Donner (the reindeer) eating a döner, which I assume is phonetically more or less identical over there.
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
"gyro" is sold as a type of sandwich. See: https://www.onelook.com/?w=gyro&ls=a&loc=home_ac_gyro
Most Greek restaurants and takeout places here seem to sell gyro both as a sandwich with flatbread and as a main dish on a plate, typically with French fries and salad, which is usually the pricier option. I heard that this tends to be the way it works in Greece too.
Greek restaurants are somewhat common here, but döner kebap places can be found all across the country, even in many small villages. It is an extremely popular street food, in no small part thanks to the large amount of Turkish immigrants. Because they are such a common stop for people looking for a quick meal, many of those places also sell more "generic" takeout food like pizza, burgers, schnitzel and pasta, but they also usually carry other Turkish specialties like pide and lahmacun.
Oh, and I also attempted some Turkish lessons on Duolingo a while ago, in solidarity with all those Turkish immigrants who had to learn my language. Phew, what a mess... 
Good to know that there is a language out there with which I am struggling even more than with Hungarian.
At least I now know that bread means "ekmek" in Turkish, but that was about as far as I got. I can definitely now excuse all those kebap vendors who were instructed by me to "leave out the cucumbers, please", and who then proceeded to put nothing but cucumber on my döner before I corrected them.
Cannot eat too much of it though, but that´s pretty much how I like it. :f_biggrin::sfishy:
Looks great.
A lot of things you can do with that one, and I think I have an idea already.
Like last year, and two years before that on my own blog, we will draw some random Kinder Surprise eggs and do a "show and tell" with the little treasures inside it from December 1st until Christmas Eve. It will probably be the last season of this, though, as Kinder Surprise eggs have gotten pretty expensive and were not even that easy to get in the stores, I had to resort to online orders to get all twenty-four of them. Let's hope they will even arrive in time... but I'm looking forward to one more season of this nonetheless. 
