German producers have sparked a dispute by filing an opposition to a Turkish application to grant the döner kebab’s special status at the EU level, initiating a six-month period to resolve disagreements.

A Turkish application to the European Commission for the döner kebab to be given similar EU recognition as the Neapolitan pizza and Spain’s jamon serrano has been opposed by Germany, sources close to the issue have told Euronews.

As reported, in April Türkiye filed an application to register the name döner in Europe so that it can be used only by those producers conforming to the registered production method and product specifications.

  • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    It may have been some sort of “style” but it was what they were putting on the spit to cut from and being sold as “döner” on the menu.

    Actually the pizza definitions do specify the thickness of the crust

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      It may have been some sort of “style” but it was what they were putting on the spit to cut from and being sold as “döner” on the menu.

      Then you should have contacted the authorities. Also shops using cheap meat don’t do their own skewers they buy them frozen – you can also get good meat in frozen form, but if a shop makes their own skewer they’re not going to use shoddy ingredients that makes no economical sense at all.

      Actually the pizza definitions do specify the thickness of the crust

      Sensibly so, there’s pizza styles with much thicker crusts than Neapolitana (also Italian ones). Not sure that’s necessary for Döner simply because noone is cutting the meat off in slabs. 2mm minimum btw sounds rather thick. 5mm are definitely too thick. Heck that’s an acceptable lower range for Wienerschnitzel. The maximum makes sense, a minimum not really.

      And, as said: If they want to register Bursa Döner to be like that, a specific type of meat without spices and cut in rather thick slices, they’re free to (though regulating the length of the blade is still BS). But why shouldn’t there be other Döner beside that.

      • raef@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Then you should have contacted the authorities

        I’ll let someone with more skin in the game take care of it. If people notice, they’ll go somewhere else, if they don’t, then I guess that shop gets away with it.

        I thought the sizes were pretty big. It’d end up looking like a steak burrito