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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Where are the green things?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cucumber as the dish is Tsaziki.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know, that's like 5g of vegetables with 100g of saturated fat on the tray. This is a very unhealthy menu.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sorry, I've read 'what' instead of 'where'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OP probably decided against the green things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I hope OP stays healthy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For 8€ it should be more. But the quality looks good.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Does it? Not 1 single green thing in sight? For a work cafeteria I would hope for a balanced meal.

Edit: my bad, the pool of cream has some green bits in it, so it's technically a salad. Carry on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I cant decide if the red and white stuff is onion or some veggie. Stuff doesn't need to be green to be tasty and balanced.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it is onion and yes, it is some veggie because onions are vegetables 😀

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you can’t recognize a fucking onion im sure your diet is perfect.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is a similar looking type of salad that is often eaten in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Purple cabbage. And it does look similar

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Its eaten like salad though.

We do have actually purple cabbage but its usually eaten hot and looks different.

There are some dishes with it where its eaten cold, but it makes the cabbage usually more purple beyond it being mistaken for something else also due to the texture. Many Döner stores put it in the Döner dishes cold as well, tastes great.

Love cabbage. Sauerkraut based, high on vitamins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, here in the US it's often used as a garnish to add a pop of color

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

XD thats some use of it in the Premium Dining here as well, but i think it tastes too good to just eat it in small quantities for the color, its healthy and tastes great when done right.

They call us Krauts for a reason XD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree! I'll just eat it raw lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

“Where’s the green stuff?”

“We got this purple thing”

“Excellent. Carry on”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think that’s what “quality” means here. It refers to the competence with which the food is executed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is your employer not subsidizing it? Its a common practice in austria. 8€ was the price people outside the company had to pay but we only payed like 3€. Also at a large industrial factory.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Germany used to treat its workers well, too, but that was 40 years ago. Since then it has been going down the drain, thanks to a certain former working class party selling out their core voters to big business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's also how I know it from Germany (Siemens, SEW, BASF)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I don't recognize the main dish or dessert -- beyond being some sort of pudding presumably with blueberries and something else on top.

What are they called?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Main dish is probably a gyros

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That depends on whether you are Greece (call it gyros) or Turkish (call it kebap) or whether you want to risk a fight (calling it gyros in front of Turkish people or vice versa).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The way it's served here matches what I've had at greek fast food places in Germany

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Username checks out. Hmm Zwiebeln!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

With a Döner plate usually mixed salad is served and the yoghurt dressing would be on top of the Kebap meat. With a Gyros plate usually Tsaziki and coleslaw are served.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The things on top of the pudding look like decorative fake coffee beans made out of coffee flavoured chocolate. I'd be willing to take bets that the pudding is also coffee flavoured to stick with the theme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The mainndish is just kebab meat with some salad with tons of Mayo and some slices of onion

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Damn, the weird sauce that always catfishes me as Mayo catfished me again!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Germany is way too liberal in what they call a "salad"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nobody in Germany would call this a salad, though.

This, on the other hand

Wurstsalat is actually made of the Wurst

or this...

Fleischsalat is made of the Wurst, too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Apparently not Mayo, yogurt with a sprinkle of random veggies. It's tzatziki

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

yogurt with a sprinkle of random veggies

Don't let Greeks or Turks hear that.

You need yoghurt, the heavy stuff with 10% fat, olive oil, garlic, cucumber, pepper, and salt. Nothing else. No, no dill, no mint (WTF?), no nothing.

Julienne the cucumber. Very fine is better than fine as long as you're not producing mush. Salt it, let it stand for 10 minutes, then squeeze dry, toss the water. Add yoghurt, should be about two to three parts of yoghurt for one part cucumbers, by volume, don't sweat it. Take about a clove for 500g of yoghurt (that's a clove, not a bulb, yes it's quite little, but it's raw and it's going to infuse), surgically remove the sprout (that's where the nasty stuff is in garlic), chop finely. I said chop, not squeeze, yes it makes a difference. Add with pepper and salt and some olive oil, put in the fridge for at least one hour better a day, well covered (closed container is good, cling film if you have to), mix again and do final taste and consistency adjustment with pepper, salt and olive oil. Pepper should be subtle AF, supporting the garlic, not supplanting it.

...it's absolutely fine to do other yoghurt sauces and in fact in Germany you'll see three or four at any Döner shop, but don't call the non-tsasiki tsatsiki, please. If you want a herb sauce, call it herb sauce. There's no herbs in tsatsiki. (Sauces differ regionally in Germany -- there's always going to be tsatsiki, around here you also generally get curry, hot or mild, as well as cocktail sauce (no, not mayo based, it's still yoghurt)).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I make tzatziki, an that, it is not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

With is basically a kebab sandwich menu, minus thé bread and a few veggetables.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Choc / Caramel Mousse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd miss some salad, e.g coleslaw.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's like serving a hamburger patty beside a slice of cheese and a squirt of ketchup, with the bun on a separate plate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Döner Kebab in bread is a much more recent invention than the same thing on a plate. Traditionally you'd get rice dunno how it's in Turkey but in Germany there's generally a choice of rice or fries.

Thus what you're looking at is a Dönerteller mit Pommes, arguably a very sorry one. Technically the salad is present, in practice, no, salad generally consists of more than just onion. You can order "Nur Zwiebel" instead of "Mit Alles" but they're going to feel sorry for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Depending on the meat it could be considered a Gyros especially with the Zaziki

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Mit pommes frites should be on the pommes frites. The whole thing belongs in one mess of a bowl. Deconstructing a kebab like this is a travesty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We need a bot to tag posts pertaining to German food as nsfw. I do not thank you, OP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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You can open your eyes again

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Very reasonable, that is basically what you will pay for a similar meal here in South Africa.

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