In short a kebab is small chunks of meat threaded onto a skewer and grilled or cooked over coal. There are many types of kebab such as doner kebab, Kofta kebab and Shish kebab

The Doner Kebab is made using slices of marinated meat (lamb, beef or chicken) which is threaded onto a tall vertical skewer and then grilled as it is slowly turned. The cooked meat is cut off the spit into thin slices and then usually served in a pitta bread.

The kebab has steadily grown in popularity since it was introduced to the UK in the 1960's, and today there are over 20,000 kebab shops trading today.

Kebabs have a less than perfect reputation with doubts about quality of meat, food hygeine and nutrition. Generally the kebab bought from a takeaway today is much different to the dish it evolved from, usually containing high levels of fat and salt. The National Association of Kebab Shops is the organisation responsible for improving the image we have of the popular fast food.

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Today's Zaman, Turkey - 27 Jan 2008
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7DAYS, United Arab Emirates - 16 Feb 2008
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Daily Mail, UK - 59 minutes ago
Wasn't the picture of a pieeyed Jermaine Jenas ordering a doner at the end of a plainly uproarious night the perfect antidote to that? ...


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Guardian Unlimited, UK - 21 hours ago
... body healthy mind has a lot to be said for it, it doesn't take into account the rejuvenating effect on intellectual study of a doner kebab and chips. ...

The world record for the largest kebab was achieved in the northern Mexican City of Chihuahua. The kebab weighed 3.9 tons and was 13 feet tall and was the equivalent of 24,000 portions.

Tom Sanders (Professor of nutrition at Kings College London) tested 9 different fast foods for their harmful Trans fat content and concluded that the kebab was the most unhealthy. A Doner Kebab contained 10 times more trans fat than a portion of chicken tikka masala and over 6 times more than a Big Mac and fries.

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The Age, Australia - 28 Jan 2008
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The Moscow Times, Russia - 10 hours ago
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'I was only eating a kebab'
News & Star, UK - 26 Jan 2008
The kebab is cold in the bin. I don't feel like eating it now. "It was an interesting phone call to my wife afterwards. I phone her every night and she was ...

PM skewered over crime and kebabs
Times Online, UK - 23 Jan 2008
Almost all dodgy events feature kebabs in some way. This was no exception. "What's happening on Britain's streets," demanded a Tory backbencher, ...

The minister, Jacqui Smith, street strife and a late-night kebab ...
Times Online, UK - 20 Jan 2008
An aide said later that the Home Secretary, who has full-time police protection, was not afraid to go out and had recently bought a late-night kebab in ...

London's top 10 kebab joints
This is London, UK - 23 Jan 2008
By Charles Campion, Evening Standard 23.01.08 Which is the more damning indictment - that the Home Secretary should be going out for a kebab at 5pm, ...

Jacqui Smith has a kebab at the dead of teatime in a bid to ...
Daily Mail, UK - 23 Jan 2008
When our intrepid Home Secretary Jacqui Smith ventured into the uncharted territory of Peckham for a lamb kebab, and came out of the ordeal unscathed, ...