Topic: Donner in a tin

[Onions]

Well, I've not encountered chicken doner to this day ...  Chicken blended with lamb, without a doubt (look at the cost saving) but 100% chicken (modulo rusk, spice, etc) never.
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** Phil.

If we're demanding 100% lamb as well, then I doubt you would ever have found that in the 90s either! Both of those elephant legs turned, and both dripped the same amount of god's good fat down their sides as the other...

[George]

The Iceland product is primarily beef, followed by chicken and with only a very small amount of lamb. It's probably a similar mix to what I've occasionally enjoyed from kebeb shops and vans over several decades. Thank you SS for pointing it out.

[Peripatetic Phil]

The Iceland product is primarily beef, followed by chicken and with only a very small amount of lamb.

Agreed.  56% beef, 33% chicken, 6% lamb, 5% mutton, which adds up to 100%.  However, the total meat content is only 58%, the remainder being soya protein, rusk, spices, etc.

[Kashmiri Bob]

Have been having LA Diner Cooked and Cut Doner Kebab Meat from Farm Foods recently.  65 % mech sep chicken, 10 % beef and 5 % lamb.  Rusk, a pile of stabilizers, MSG and a couple of spices.  £2 for a 600 g bag.  It's not great so I toss in a little Laziza paste.  Then it is OK'ish.  Reckon Manchurian/Chicken 65 style spicing would be good with this product.  Would give a similar doner kebab as was available from Shazanz Kebab House here in Birmingham.

Rob

[Peripatetic Phil]

Have been having LA Diner Cooked and Cut Doner Kebab Meat from Farm Foods recently.

Fairly sure I have tried that one in the past and was not impressed.  If that is the case, I may well have some lurking in the freezer — I will take a look (tomorrow) !

[Peripatetic Phil]

I am minded to invest in some Iceland King Kebab meat and try re-heating it under the Tepro steak grill on minimum power ...

Cooked some that way this evening — initial reaction was positive, but pleasure started to fade long before I had finished the pitta.  Rather bland, needs salt, not really a patch on the Real Thing™.  The Lidl "shish" (= "seekh") kebabs, on the other hand, remain excellent and I now have 5 packs of six in the freezer and one in the 'fridge.  The only thing that really livened up the Iceland doner kebab was a pickled chilli that I must have had in the 'fridge for well over three months !
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** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

Rather bland, needs salt, not really a patch on the Real Thing™.

Well I did warn you that it wasn't as good as the real thing but I still think it's the closest to it of all the brands out there. And also, as an inveterate halophile, almost anything would taste bland to you. It's not perfect but the one thing it isn't is in need of is more salt.

[tempest63]

I am minded to invest in some Iceland King Kebab meat and try re-heating it under the Tepro steak grill on minimum power ...

Cooked some that way this evening — initial reaction was positive, but pleasure started to fade long before I had finished the pitta.  Rather bland, needs salt, not really a patch on the Real Thing™.  The Lidl "shish" (= "seekh") kebabs, on the other hand, remain excellent and I now have 5 packs of six in the freezer and one in the 'fridge.  The only thing that really livened up the Iceland doner kebab was a pickled chilli that I must have had in the 'fridge for well over three months !
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** Phil.

I feel I may be missing out. From memory I don’t believe I have ever set foot in a Lidl and certainly haven’t been in an Iceland in over 20 years.
Was Iceland once Bejam or similar?
T63

[Peripatetic Phil]

It's not perfect but the one thing it isn't is in need of is more salt.

So what should I add to liven it up (apart from pickled chillies) ?  And please don't tell me "chilli sauce" because I Do Not Eat Chilli Sauce With Doner Kebabs (or any other kebab, for that matter).  In fact I don't eat chilli sauce at all, because I dislike the vinegar content, but I do eat a very great deal of chilli oil (with shrimps or scallops) with Chinese food.
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** Phil

[Peripatetic Phil]

I feel I may be missing out. From memory I don’t believe I have ever set foot in a Lidl and certainly haven’t been in an Iceland in over 20 years.
Was Iceland once Bejam or similar?

In brief, and to the last, "well, sort of".  In 1988, Bejam bought the Victor Value supermarket chain off Tesco. Then, while it was still hugely successful, Apthorp [the founder of Bejam] sold Bejam to Iceland in 1989, and all of the stores used the Iceland name.

As to "I don’t believe I have ever set foot in a Lidl ", I suppose if one has Fortnum's, Harrod's and Selfridge's on one's doorstep, one has little need for Aldi or Lidl, but for those of us banished to the colonies (read: Cornwall), one has little option ...
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** Phil.