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The doner kebab is the most The doner meat is sliced very thinly popular fast food in Germany. by hand from the spit.

Eating a doner can be a chal­ lenge. The contents of the paper-wrapped sandwich often fall out and the gooey sauce leaks on your hands.

Berlin boasts some thousands of imbissbuden (snack shops) selling quick food fixes from all corners of the globe. The doner kebab is by far the most popular, but the currywurst is a cult classic.

Germany's most popular fast food

The doner kebab has Turkish origins, and its name means something like turned meat. As the story goes, Turkish guest worker Mehmet Aygun created the first doner kebab in Berlin in 1971. Traditionally, the marinated meat - usually a mixture of beef and lamb - is grilled on a spit, sliced thinly and then served with rice and salad. Berlin's on-the-go doner creation is served in a pita bread with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, white and red cabbage as well as your choice of sauce. These sauces - such as garlic, herb, or spicy - are most definitely not a Turkish tradition, and many Germans enjoy getting a combination of them added to their doner.

The doner's close cousin is the schawarma sandwich. It is made with marinated chicken that is grilled on a spit like the doner and then served in a pita with veggies and tahini sauce. Some 1,200 fast food joints and another 700 restaurants currently supply the denizens of the capital with a doner, according to the statistics compiled by the Berliner Zeitung.