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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by TFNA on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:42PM (#50373497)
Are they really excellent? Kebab shops elsewhere in Europe are often associated with shady dealings. For example, in Finland a family will run one for a while for immigration fraud, then hand it on to another immigrant family for rinse and repeat. Naturally, they serve the lowest-quality food they can get away with. In Poland many are owned by Gulf Arab investors who hire Bangladeshi laborers to run them with zero concern for food quality.

Modern döner-kebab meat is rarely the quality shaowarma of a century ago. It is highly processed and basically a big hot dog.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by slowin on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:43PM (#50373507)
Yes, they are really excellent.

> Kebab shops elsewhere in Europe are often associated with shady dealings.

No they are not, but there's a lot of racist propaganda that says they are!

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by TFNA on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:50PM (#50373573)
The press coverage and statements by police and tax officials are there for you to read. To get you started, here's one [0] from Finland's public broadcaster that is hardly a bastion of "racist propaganda".

[0] https://yle.fi/a/74-20191372

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by slowin on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:57PM (#50373623)
I mean that absolutely reads as racist propaganda!

> "All types of misconduct are clearly more common in foreign-owned companies,"

Spare me, anywhere with bankers hanging out is going to be an endless sea of far more serious crime.

None of this has anything to do with food quality anyway, which was my point.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by jryle70 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:15AM (#50375811)
The quote was from Finland tax authority. Are you saying they are racist?

> anywhere with bankers hanging out is going to be an endless sea of far more serious crime.

In Finland? Examples?

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by slowin on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:26AM (#50380288)
> The quote was from Finland tax authority. Are you saying they are racist?

Yeah.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by 488438721616 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:01PM (#50374147)
Hope you get stabbed later today.

So you get to enjoy the cuktural enrichment you jihadist advocate for.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by lifestyleguru on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:04AM (#50376444)
Kebab stores, local entrepreneurs unwilling to hire a local and pay EUR 1500, private universities, slumlords. That's how immigration and visa frauds operate in Poland, yes.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by asdff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:08AM (#50376479)
Are you saying a hot dog flame kissed and scraped off with a knife and dumped into a pita with some yogurt/garlic/mayo/what have you sauce would not be delicious? Come on. People outside the US act all high and proud about the hot dog but literally every meat eating culture has some other scrap meat dish, sometimes its the whole anus rather than minced and put in a casing for you. Waste of the animal to throw out fine meat if prepared well.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by TFNA on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:21AM (#50377006)
Cultures may have traditional offal-based dishes, and indeed they can be delicious, but the meat is not highly processed, because that is something that came about only with modern industry. Just compare a photo of a hot dog or döner-roll mystery meat to those traditional dishes.
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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by asdff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:59AM (#50381484)
Not much different than mincemeat kebab actually.
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