This might be the most Nova Scotian thing you've ever seen.
November 15, 2017 12:58 PM Subscribe
A 24-hour live stream of donair. (SLYT)
We've talked about the donair before, as well as its antecedent, the döner.
We've talked about the donair before, as well as its antecedent, the döner.
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This is the first time I've ever properly used the "tile windows side by side" function on this computer.
I'm trapped. I need to see it in action. Someone order a donair, damnit.
Also, Red Dwarf and other British comedy references used to confuse the hell out of me when they described döner kebabs, because my yonger, sillier self was glomming onto the word kebab as in Americanized kebabs (meat and veg chunks on small metal skewers) and none of that mapped to how it was described in, say, the Red Dwarf books and I was really confused about why they were being described as so stupendously messy and stereotypically slovenly drunkard's food.
(I JUST SAW A HUMAN! A HUMAN IS AT THE... false alarm damnit!)
I don't think I actually made the connection that the closest analog to donair/ döner I had on the west coast was a gyro and maybe falalfal joints and that they're often essentially the same thing, and my reaction was just like "Oh, duuuuh. Those things are frickin' delicious. And really messy. Oh, that all makes so much more sense now."
(More humans! TOUCH THE MEAT! TOOOOUCH THE MEEEEEEAAAAT!)
posted by loquacious at 1:32 PM on November 15, 2017
I'm trapped. I need to see it in action. Someone order a donair, damnit.
Also, Red Dwarf and other British comedy references used to confuse the hell out of me when they described döner kebabs, because my yonger, sillier self was glomming onto the word kebab as in Americanized kebabs (meat and veg chunks on small metal skewers) and none of that mapped to how it was described in, say, the Red Dwarf books and I was really confused about why they were being described as so stupendously messy and stereotypically slovenly drunkard's food.
(I JUST SAW A HUMAN! A HUMAN IS AT THE... false alarm damnit!)
I don't think I actually made the connection that the closest analog to donair/ döner I had on the west coast was a gyro and maybe falalfal joints and that they're often essentially the same thing, and my reaction was just like "Oh, duuuuh. Those things are frickin' delicious. And really messy. Oh, that all makes so much more sense now."
(More humans! TOUCH THE MEAT! TOOOOUCH THE MEEEEEEAAAAT!)
posted by loquacious at 1:32 PM on November 15, 2017
If you're having as many problems with the stream as I am, try https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=AfhkvQFjwUg instead. (In other words, exactly the same URL as in the FPP, but with the gaming subdomain rather than www.) Bonus: You can hide the chat pane and fiddle with scrolling a little and really maximize that lucious hunk o' meat in your browser window.
Speaking of the video's chat, there's a remarkable number of German speakers active right now. Go figure.
posted by ardgedee at 2:12 PM on November 15, 2017
Speaking of the video's chat, there's a remarkable number of German speakers active right now. Go figure.
posted by ardgedee at 2:12 PM on November 15, 2017
Ugh, now I am missing shawarma. Or rather, the shawarma I grew up with. Around here (SF Bay Area) they first of all put odd stuff in it (pickles, raw onions, and beets), but I could deal with that by making them customize it, but what is really missing is the garlic sauce. Oh, sometimes they slather on yogurt weakly flavored with garlic, but it is usually hummus or tahini. And never the true toum, which is just raw garlic, oil, and a touch of salt and lemon. Slathered on the pita, it melts into the meat and bread in glorious spicy garlicky joy.
Fortunately, I go home to visit next month and can go to the Lebanese Taverna for a proper shawarma.
posted by tavella at 2:20 PM on November 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Fortunately, I go home to visit next month and can go to the Lebanese Taverna for a proper shawarma.
posted by tavella at 2:20 PM on November 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Is this at the King of Donair on Quinpool?
When I lived in Halifax I used to pick a donair there when I was on the way out of town to go bouldering on the coast. I once tried to feed a bit to a seal that was bobbing just offshore but he wasn't interested - too garlicky perhaps.
posted by Flashman at 2:22 PM on November 15, 2017
When I lived in Halifax I used to pick a donair there when I was on the way out of town to go bouldering on the coast. I once tried to feed a bit to a seal that was bobbing just offshore but he wasn't interested - too garlicky perhaps.
posted by Flashman at 2:22 PM on November 15, 2017
Can someone please explain why this is the most Nova Scotia thing ever? Do they use moose meat or washed out hockey player meat?
posted by NoMich at 2:28 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by NoMich at 2:28 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Yes @tavella, I grew up in a small town with a sizable Lebanese population and the Lebanese restaurants would make shawarma with a super garlic-y sauce. Getting shawarma in the Bay Area is definitely not quite right. Fortunately one of them has started selling the sauce in grocery stores, so I may just bring some back with me next time I go home. Anyway jsut for some regional rivalry sake: Chicken shawarma wrap from cedars in Charlottetown > any Halifax donair. Fight me. Also I miss home.
posted by Space Coyote at 2:40 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Space Coyote at 2:40 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Homesick and hungry.
posted by hydrobatidae at 2:46 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by hydrobatidae at 2:46 PM on November 15, 2017
→ Can someone please explain why this is the most Nova Scotia thing ever?
Unless it features the revolting Halifax donair sauce (seemingly 50:50 condensed milk and vinegar), I'm not sure how, either. Donair seems to require sub-hotdog quality meat, worse even than the damp cardboard that goes into some gyros. I can't compare either to Glasgow döners, though, as you have to be well munted to even want a döner. If I had one in Glasgow, I'm certain not to remember it.
Yep, file me under haters. Halifax has amazing Turkish food, and donair ain't it. Also, I live a couple of blocks from the Shawarma Strip on Lawrence East. Al Tanoor is beyond compare: freshly-carved chicken or beef on an Iraqi samoon, with beets, garlic sauce, tabouleh, tahini and their home-made Scotch Bonnet harissa …
posted by scruss at 2:47 PM on November 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Unless it features the revolting Halifax donair sauce (seemingly 50:50 condensed milk and vinegar), I'm not sure how, either. Donair seems to require sub-hotdog quality meat, worse even than the damp cardboard that goes into some gyros. I can't compare either to Glasgow döners, though, as you have to be well munted to even want a döner. If I had one in Glasgow, I'm certain not to remember it.
Yep, file me under haters. Halifax has amazing Turkish food, and donair ain't it. Also, I live a couple of blocks from the Shawarma Strip on Lawrence East. Al Tanoor is beyond compare: freshly-carved chicken or beef on an Iraqi samoon, with beets, garlic sauce, tabouleh, tahini and their home-made Scotch Bonnet harissa …
posted by scruss at 2:47 PM on November 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
NoMich this particular iteration of döner (donair) is unique to Nova Scotia.
posted by dhens at 2:48 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by dhens at 2:48 PM on November 15, 2017
NoMich, Halifax donairs are a thing. I wouldn't even call it a NS thing because the rest of the province is copying Halifax. Which, I mean, you should.
Halifax donairs = spiced beef on spit (as seen in live feed) + raw tomatoes + raw onions + sweet garlic sauce. NOTHING ELSE. No lettuce, cheese, garlic sauce.
You stand with your feet planted shoulder width apart, lean forward and bite into the donair. Sauce (sweetened condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic powder) will go everywhere. Or, you eat the meat out of the pita until you can close it and then bite down on the donair.
Also a NS thing because we love our donairs and will watch them on a live feed.
posted by hydrobatidae at 2:51 PM on November 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Halifax donairs = spiced beef on spit (as seen in live feed) + raw tomatoes + raw onions + sweet garlic sauce. NOTHING ELSE. No lettuce, cheese, garlic sauce.
You stand with your feet planted shoulder width apart, lean forward and bite into the donair. Sauce (sweetened condensed milk, vinegar, and garlic powder) will go everywhere. Or, you eat the meat out of the pita until you can close it and then bite down on the donair.
Also a NS thing because we love our donairs and will watch them on a live feed.
posted by hydrobatidae at 2:51 PM on November 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Do they use moose meat or washed out hockey player meat?
Congratulations. That last part might have turned me vegan, and may actually be the least appetizing imagery I've ever had, and I was (virtually) there for Flavortown.
I've met old washed up pro-am hockey players and what they do to their bodies... and I'm split between guessing that they would be tough and stringy or deeply tenderized via marination. I'm guessing why not both? Tough, stringy sinews and gristly meaty bits like the wrong end of an overcooked steak with lots of fatty, floppy marinated sweetmeats.
I'm actually on a diet, so, thank you, thank you.
posted by loquacious at 2:54 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Congratulations. That last part might have turned me vegan, and may actually be the least appetizing imagery I've ever had, and I was (virtually) there for Flavortown.
I've met old washed up pro-am hockey players and what they do to their bodies... and I'm split between guessing that they would be tough and stringy or deeply tenderized via marination. I'm guessing why not both? Tough, stringy sinews and gristly meaty bits like the wrong end of an overcooked steak with lots of fatty, floppy marinated sweetmeats.
I'm actually on a diet, so, thank you, thank you.
posted by loquacious at 2:54 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Ah Gyros, goes well with pita, onions and cucumber sauce.
I fail to see how this isn't a Chicago thing.
posted by MikeWarot at 3:05 PM on November 15, 2017
I fail to see how this isn't a Chicago thing.
posted by MikeWarot at 3:05 PM on November 15, 2017
I don't think I actually made the connection that the closest analog to donair/ döner I had on the west coast was a gyro and maybe falalfal joints and that they're often essentially the same thing
Also tacos al pastor.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:23 PM on November 15, 2017
Also tacos al pastor.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 3:23 PM on November 15, 2017
Count me in with those who say that condensed milk does NOT belong in garlic sauce; the ne plus ultra of which is LA's Zankou Chicken.
posted by brujita at 3:37 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by brujita at 3:37 PM on November 15, 2017
Yeah Halifax's Donair sauce is what keeps me from loving the Halifax Donair fully. Its that condensed milk... way too sweet for my palate. Coincidentally, I've eaten at this particular Donair shop. And yes I was drunk.
Shawarma Strip on Lawrence East
Oh man you literally can't lose on that strip. Lots of great places.
posted by Ashwagandha at 4:02 PM on November 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Shawarma Strip on Lawrence East
Oh man you literally can't lose on that strip. Lots of great places.
posted by Ashwagandha at 4:02 PM on November 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
just raw garlic, oil, and a touch of salt and lemon
Okay, now I am officially hungry.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:13 PM on November 15, 2017
Okay, now I am officially hungry.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:13 PM on November 15, 2017
Halifax donairs = spiced beef on spit (as seen in live feed) + raw tomatoes + raw onions + sweet garlic sauce. NOTHING ELSE. No lettuce, cheese, garlic sauce.
You might want to try it with a little beetroot.
posted by LeLiLo at 4:24 PM on November 15, 2017
You might want to try it with a little beetroot.
posted by LeLiLo at 4:24 PM on November 15, 2017
Why do you North Americans insist on taking perfectly good drunk food and turning it into goo+added fat?
A proper late-night kebab is:
Pide
Toub and/or Hommus
Chopped lettuce
Meat
Tomato and onion quickly fried with sumac
Pickled turnip (turned purple by a little beetroot in the pickle juice)
Maybe some pickled green chillis
More sumac
Garlic sauce and/or hommus (if hommus has not already been applied)
Chilli sauce or flaked dried chillis
NO cheese
NO chips/fries
Best eaten in a deep, deep, beery haze, and vaguely regretted for at least 24 hours.
(I keed, this is good)
posted by prismatic7 at 4:49 PM on November 15, 2017
A proper late-night kebab is:
Pide
Toub and/or Hommus
Chopped lettuce
Meat
Tomato and onion quickly fried with sumac
Pickled turnip (turned purple by a little beetroot in the pickle juice)
Maybe some pickled green chillis
More sumac
Garlic sauce and/or hommus (if hommus has not already been applied)
Chilli sauce or flaked dried chillis
NO cheese
NO chips/fries
Best eaten in a deep, deep, beery haze, and vaguely regretted for at least 24 hours.
(I keed, this is good)
posted by prismatic7 at 4:49 PM on November 15, 2017
In defense of donair sauce, I will fuck with donair pizza happily when I'm in the maritimes and the occasion calls for pizza. Somehow the sweetness works better in pizza form.
posted by Space Coyote at 4:51 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by Space Coyote at 4:51 PM on November 15, 2017
Can someone please explain why this is the most Nova Scotia thing ever?
the most nova scotia thing i ever saw was a guy in a kilt drunk on schooner beer at the iona kaliegh pretending to be a tourist from new yawk in the bahston states
a cylinder of glorified lard rotating in a space heater doesn't even come close
but then i'm not sure people in cape breton thought much of halifax anyway ...
posted by pyramid termite at 5:18 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
the most nova scotia thing i ever saw was a guy in a kilt drunk on schooner beer at the iona kaliegh pretending to be a tourist from new yawk in the bahston states
a cylinder of glorified lard rotating in a space heater doesn't even come close
but then i'm not sure people in cape breton thought much of halifax anyway ...
posted by pyramid termite at 5:18 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Great, now I want a kebab, and there isn't a kebab shop for miles.
posted by turbid dahlia at 5:57 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by turbid dahlia at 5:57 PM on November 15, 2017
Not the most Nova Scotian, but definitely the most Haligonian. I suspect, though, that calling it that would have left most here puzzled. I get the feeling many of you may have heard of Nova Scotia, far fewer would recognize Halifax.
And it's the most Haligonian because the donair is our official food, which of course sparked a lot of controversy because our city council actually wasted time voting on an official food instead of bringing world peace.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:02 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
And it's the most Haligonian because the donair is our official food, which of course sparked a lot of controversy because our city council actually wasted time voting on an official food instead of bringing world peace.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:02 PM on November 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Also hate donairs. How are they a thing? It's a white washed shawarma with sweetened sauce. Bleck.
The rum runners cake is delish tho.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 9:18 PM on November 15, 2017
The rum runners cake is delish tho.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 9:18 PM on November 15, 2017
I get the feeling many of you may have heard of Nova Scotia, far fewer would recognize Halifax.
Is this where we start in with Barrett’s Privateers?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:22 AM on November 16, 2017 [6 favorites]
Is this where we start in with Barrett’s Privateers?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:22 AM on November 16, 2017 [6 favorites]
This came up in my FB feed, as posted by noted vegan George Stroumboulopoulos. This and his occasional postings from the CNE's food building suggest that he misses his former omnivore self from time to time.
posted by Capt. Renault at 6:42 AM on November 16, 2017
posted by Capt. Renault at 6:42 AM on November 16, 2017
Omgomg, they are changing the spool of meat right now!
Also I want a paper King Donair crown.
Also I want a Donair Kebab.
posted by dirtdirt at 10:38 AM on November 16, 2017
Also I want a paper King Donair crown.
Also I want a Donair Kebab.
posted by dirtdirt at 10:38 AM on November 16, 2017
The live chat is back to being 100% German. Interesting.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:07 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:07 PM on November 16, 2017
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