Had a very nice Kebab from a nearby kebabery last night at Rancho Collapso. But there is one thing about the way they are served now that just annoys me.

(Warning – yes this post is going to turn into one of those “when I was a lad” type things a bit further down)

Why do they have to give them to you in a polystyrene box now!

All it does is make the pita bread go soggy!

Then you can’t pick the damn thing up and have to dismantle it and eat it out of the box. This is not the way you should eat kebabs!

You should hold them up to your face like some big meat stuffed mouth organ and Nom away, dropping bits of salad and chilli sauce all over the place. Normally down the late night high street – said trail of salad should leave a nicely weaving path for all who come later to follow. It’s tradition…or a bye law….or an old charter or something.

These modern box soggy kebabs are slipperier and harder to grip than a naked and freshly baby oiled Nigella Lawson!

(Pauses to enjoy that mental image…oh my….)

When I was in my prime kebab eating days, my early 20’s I suppose – kebabs came just wrapped in paper, which would be peeled back and allow you to get a grip on the bread as well, and then chow down without much problem.

And the chilli sauce of today? What is going on with that then?

What has happened to the chilli sauce of my youth that used to make it feel like your gums were dissolving? Stuff so hot that it would make your scalp start to sweat the minute you took a bite?

Still, it was a good kebab in its own modern way.

I am probably just suffering that delusion us old folks get where everything was better when you were younger.

Next thing you know I will be standing in a bus queue talking to total strangers about the weather………..

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