Obviously just exagerating, but it was not was I was expecting.
I had spent a few months in Turkey earlier in the year and been really disappointed to learn that the British do it better for once, so I was excited to get home and try it again. I moved to Scotland shotly after I came back, and I figured it would be just the same. It is not.
First of all, the pros:
In Scotland you have the option to get a munch box, which contains doner meat, a variety of pakore, and the legendary pink sauce. This shit is good, and the portions are abundant, to say the least.
Later though when I wanted to get a regular doner kebab, the salad was not on point, and the sauce, first of all they didn’t even have garlic sauce as an option, and when I learned that the chilli sauce was sweet instead of tangy, oof. Not good.
While I have continued to adore Scottish cuisine for being exactly the kind of food I imagine stuffing my face with when I am drunk or high, my rose tinted glasses were broken. If they can commit such a cardinal sin as this, what else can they do?
A doner kebab pie.
I saw one today in the co-op and immediately had to try it. This is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in my entire life, and the sweet chilli sauce made it taste vaguely Chinese, like char sui? God damn, I could eat these all day. I had an Irn Bru energy drink to go with it.
they didn’t even have garlic sauce as an option
Unforgivable. I’m sure the police understood why you burned the parlour down.
living under the English jackboot forces you to get creative I suppose. Ngl, this all sounds delicious
Scotland has out burgered burgerland with the munchy box. I’m pretty impressed
Irn Bru
I tried some of this stuff after hearing from scots how nice it is, I got it from a store that sells international things. It’s awful idk how anyone likes it
Scottish cuisine is largely a matter of convenience, which is why it so readily adapts to new dishes. Doner meat? Put it in a pie. Pizza? Put haggis on it. Burritos? Deep fry 'em. Deep fried haggis pizza is delicious, despite you feeling your arteries harden with every bite.