This was last night’s dinner. It’s called a chawarma (pronounced shwarma), and it’s a popular “fast food”
item here. Originally from the Middle
East, it’s a flatbread filled with roasted meat (usually beef, although I think
there might be chicken ones, too), tomatoes, onions, parsley, and a sauce,
which varies somewhat depending on the place.
I think the sauce usually includes mustard, and one version I had tasted
reminiscent of tahini (which wouldn’t be surprising, given its origin). And yes, it has French fries. I think that must be a local adaptation
rather than authentically Middle Eastern.
There seems to be a great fondness for French fries here. Pretty tasty, I must say.
On a random side note, when I went to Mexico,
there was a taco stand that we ate at a few times. They had a “California-style” burrito (which
I didn’t try). What made it
“California-style”? No, it wasn’t served
on a surf board. It had French fries in
it. Go figure.
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