Cooking with Kids: Toy Doner Kebab
Sadly, I noticed this too late to put it on a Christmas list, but it’s not too early to start next year’s list. Not my daughter’s list. Mine.
It’s a plush doner kebab sandwich. “The fuzzy cloth pita opens up to reveal all the fixings necessary for a traditional gyro, including lamb meat, tomato slices, onion rings, lettuce, and pepperoncini. Don’t like onions in your kebab? Take ‘em out!” If there’s one thing I hate on my sandwich, it’s polyester onions.
Like all toys, this one comes with a warning: “This gyro has such a delicious appearance that they should be kept away from small children, lest they mistake the play food for the real thing.”
I think this is a good idea. My daughter is five, but I don’t want to take any chances. After I get my toy doner kebab, I’m going to play with it all day and refuse to share.
One other advantage of the toy kebab. “There’s nothing like eating an amazing doner kebab and then walking into a room where someone tells you exactly what you just ate from only smelling it on you,” wrote Jenn Sit in her East Village eats roundup last January. “This is the magic of doner kebab.” The toy doesn’t have this problem.
Toy food sure has come along way since the days of plastic french fries, hasn’t it?
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3 Comments:
Well, is it a doener or a gyro? The similarities end with the meat roasted on a spit concept. Doener typically is served in a 90 degree wedge of Turkish pide bread and garnished with quick pickled red cabbage, onions, maybe a tomato slice, and either a garlicky spread or a spicy red sauce. No pita bread, no tzatziki, etc. While similar sandwiches, they're as different as Bill and Roger Clinton.
Sorry for the rant, I lived in Berlin for a while and consider doener my all time favorite food...of all time. I'll take 20 of these plush beauties!
lagomorph at 11:56AM on 12/31/08
I think I shold buy this for my husband as he loves donner kebabs so much! In the UK donner kebabs come in pitta, the ones we've had in Germany are much nicer though as I love the bread they come with! Our gyro we had in the States was not so good - too much garlic sauce which I didn't enjoy! Hoping to try a decent one after a few drinks in NY in March!
Iheartcupcakes at 2:36PM on 01/02/09
lagomorph, you raise a good point, and I am not qualified to say whether this is a doner kebab or a gyro, since I have not tasted it.
mamster at 4:32PM on 01/02/09