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[Bill]

Oh dear

Andri --- the elephant's foot refers to the shape the meat is moulded to .

It's placed on a vertical grill and rotated -- slices taken off when the exterior 5mm of the meat is cooked.

It's very nice when it's been freshly put up but after a few days of sitting there being reheated every so often it can be pretty rank.

It's full of fat and is often made from a mixture of the bits of meat that are not saleable --- but then again so are Hamburgers / beefburgers.

I guess you don't have this delicacy in your area of the US

Bill

[andri_cy]

No sorry, I will claim my ignorance. It is mine. So it is a reference to pieces of doner kebab then?

[Bill]

Hi Andri

Elephants foot refers to a huge lump of meat either reconstituted or layered meat that resembles a elephants foot and about the same size-- placed on a vertical grill and the slices shaved off this are what we know as doner -- packed in a pitta with salad and some sauce

Bill

[andri_cy]

Sounds good lol
Even I the goddess of knowledge learn something new every day

[Bill]

Andri

I'm 60 years old -- have been working for the same company for 43 years in various departments -- I'm the one they come running to for solutions to problems and yet I still don't know every thing .

But I have over the years learnt to bullshit with the best of them on things I haven't a clue about .

You know the old saying -- your never to old to learn something new .

Bill

[G.Man]

Hi Andri

Elephants foot refers to a huge lump of meat either reconstituted or layered meat that resembles a elephants foot and about the same size-- placed on a vertical grill and the slices shaved off this are what we know as doner -- packed in a pitta with salad and some sauce

Bill

A proper elephants foot is made from spiced minced lamb, with added egg, moulded into blocks about 3 inches thick, that are then stacked on a skewer seperated by small pieces of breast of lamb to support the weight..

And a good one is very nice...

Sadly most doner shops now buy the foot from a dodgy wholesaler and its rank.... full of fat, made from mechanically reclaimed lamb (dont ask) and really should be avoided at all costs..

[BOF]

and if you buy it from a kebab van after a night on the lash, ( in the U.K.) then consider this next time.........
where are the toilet facilities for the vendor? and where does he wash his hands......

[G.Man]

LOL, if you worry about not washing their hands after peeing when ordering a kebab, you are not drunk enough to eat one from a van in the first place...

Thats the LEAST of your worries...

[villawagen]

sorry i have been offline for a couple of days, but i think your replies have answered my original question

thanks