166
submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The doner, known as Germany’s national dish, is being skewered by the rising prices of ingredients amid cost of living crisis, MPs are told

It has always been a delicious – if slightly greasy – treat for Germans, perhaps even their national dish.

But the mighty döner kebab has now become a symbol of the country’s cost of living crisis, amid warnings from some quarters that the dish will soon cost more than €10 a serving.

Peckish Germans are so concerned about rising prices that the issue was debated this week in the Bundestag, the German parliament.

Hanna Steinmüller, an MP for the Greens, raised the issue after she was approached by anxious members of a frisbee youth club in Gesundbrunnen, part of her Berlin constituency.

Among the frisbee players’ main concerns, she told MPs, was “increased kebab prices” which are estimated to have gone up from around €3.50 (£2.90) in 2022 to at least €6 (£5.10) in recent months.

In November, one major döner producer warned that it was becoming a “luxury” dish that could soon end up costing as much as €10 (£8.50).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] raef@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Have you seen the meat? It literally pours out grease. Fun fact: a main ingredient of döner meat is chicken skin.

[-] ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Depends on your local döner supplier's supplier. I'm pretty sure my lamb döner doesn't contain chicken skin, unlike the cheap "Drehspieß".

For reference, there was a legislation set in place thatandates that a real "Döner" has to contain a certain amount of quality meat, otherwise it can not be sold under that name.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

It's actually not a percentage, you're not allowed to used stabilising additives in the skewer which means that you can't use a lot of ground meat or it's going to fall apart.

But yes chicken skin is probably a good choice if you want structure for little money.

[-] raef@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm sure there is a range of quality.

Any döner sold for €3.50 contains largely skin.

[-] ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Then it legally couldn't be called Döner and your Dönermann is lying to you.

[-] raef@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They weren't making the meat cones themselves.

At a local place, they left an order catalog on the counter. It was a catalog for just döner shops. I was just flipping through while waiting for them to get to me. It had all ingredients and price points in it

this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
166 points (96.1% liked)

World News

39041 readers
2356 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS