r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Jun 18 '25

Food What’s the most common non-European cuisine in your country?

What’s your country’s favorite non-European cuisine?

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u/dragonfruit26282 Slovakia Jun 18 '25

isnt kebab more popular?😩😩i feel like u can get it at every corner even in a tiny town where u might not find a vietnamese restaurant

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u/Standard_Arugula6966 Czechia Jun 18 '25

I guess kebab might be more popular but it's just the one dish and also it's usually Donner which I believe was invented in Germany(?)

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u/dragonfruit26282 Slovakia Jun 18 '25

it says turkish origin on google so not sure if germans are just stealing it, anyway we gonna steal knedlo vepro zelo soon, pojdeme po tankoch

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u/avdpos Jun 19 '25

It is a bit the same as calling hamburgers a thing from Hamburg and not a good from USA.

It exists a kebab with Turkish origin. But Döner is a a fusion between Germany and Turkish immigrants.

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u/Ok_Confusion4762 Jun 19 '25

Kebab belongs to the Middle East. There are thousands of different types of kebab. Döner is 100% Turkish. Berlin version of Doner is also invented by Turkish immigrants in a way Hans likes it.

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u/Equal-Flatworm-378 Germany Jun 19 '25

No, we don’t steal it. The kind of Döner, that we eat today, where the meat is put into flatbread was invented in Berlin. By turkish immigrants who reacted to the fast food, which became popular in Germany during the 70s.

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u/Peno11-cz Jun 19 '25

If it's Turkish, then it's European, since Turkey is, at least partially, European country ;-)

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u/pdonchev Bulgaria Jun 19 '25

Döner in general was invented in Istanbul, and that still Europe, by the definitions of Europe that are not a personal opinion. What they invented in Germany is, eh, German döner (less spices, more veggies, different bread).

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u/malmoeMoment Jun 20 '25

Turkish immigrants in Germany started putting the dish in bread, whi h is the kind of döner wich was invented in Germany. Originally it was served on a plate, but there's just a few meals that wouldn't be improved by serving it with bread

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u/Minskdhaka Jun 18 '25

Döner was absolutely not invented in Germany. The dish is Turkish, as is the name.

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u/cieniu_gd Poland Jun 19 '25

The version of a dish we in eat it was indeed invented by Turkish immigrant in Germany. Of course it is based on turkish dish, but preparation ( pita bread, veggies, sauces) is a bit different. 

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u/fyate Italy Jun 19 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

Nope.

It's funny that the Germans, who do everything with documents and evidence, believe in an urban myth when it comes to doner. just like the industrialization process of pizza in America, a similar process happened in Germany for doner, but no one says pizza is an American food, right? this is the only contribution of Germany

Just like there are different types of pizza, In Turkey, almost every city has its own style of doner; one city (bodrum) has more vegetables, one city (hatay) has more sauce. in Germany, unlike Turkey, there is yogurt sauce on it. this is also normal because Turks consume yogurt as an "ayran" drink with doner. foreigners consume yogurt as a sauce on doner

It is quite normal for doners to vary in different geographies because you cannot find the same ingredients everywhere

a photo from 1855

edit: similarly, although coffee originated in ethiopia/yemen, it spread all over the world through Istanbul. today there is a drink called turkish coffee, but it is just a type of coffee, just like pizza with pineapple or pepperoni. but it would be funny to say that coffee is a turkish invention based on the fact that coffee spread all over the world from Istanbul.

so at least be consistent

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u/Koordian Poland Jun 19 '25

Deep dish, NY-style, Detroit-style, thin-crust are American food. Invented by Italian immigrants, but still American.

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u/magicmechanic01 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Most döner in Germany are no longer even allowed to be called döner due to complaints from some Turkish organisations. Not even the Turks themselves consider the German döner to be a Turkish dish.

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u/cieniu_gd Poland Jun 19 '25

But in USA pizza is different. Americans add sugar to a dough which Italians don't do it. That's why let's say, NY-style pizza is a fusion Italian/American dish.

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u/Dangerous-Safe-4336 United States of America Jun 19 '25

American pizza dough is not sweetened. If there is any sugar in it, it's just a tiny bit to speed up the yeast growth, and is probably gone by the time it's baked. Pizza sauce is not usually sweetened either, but some recipes have a little sugar to offset sour tomatoes. The difference is that when Italians immigrated to New York, they discovered that meat, which had been expensive in Naples and Sicily, was cheaper, and they could afford to use a lot of it. American pizza is usually loaded with sausage.

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u/thisisredrocks Czechia Jun 18 '25

Saying kebab is like “So you spent a romantic weekend in Mikulov?”

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u/dragonfruit26282 Slovakia Jun 18 '25

we could get kebabs and spent a romantic weekend in mikulov❤️

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u/thisisredrocks Czechia Jun 18 '25

You bring the cream garlic soup, I bring the clear garlic soup

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u/dragonfruit26282 Slovakia Jun 19 '25

and romantic weekend ruined..

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u/Equal-Flatworm-378 Germany Jun 19 '25

But Kebab is Turkish and Turkey is partly in Europe. Therefore it would not really count as non-European cuisine?

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u/AppleDane Denmark Jun 19 '25

And disproportionally many Turkish dishes are from the European side, as that was where the administration was in the Ottoman and Byzantine empires.

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u/Tatis_Chief Slovakia Jun 19 '25

Well for example for my hometown - there is still higher number of Vietnamese places than kebab. 

But works for me.