Euros 2024: whoever wins the football, the Turkish kebab takes the fast-food crown

By Daniel Newman, Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Durham University

In a recent Amazon poll among its employees in European countries to mark the European football championships, the kebab appears as their favourite food, with the English beans on toast coming a distant second.

More than half of the 75,000 respondents said they partake at least once a week. And while even kebab aficionados will admit it’s hardly haute cuisine, its fan base cuts across all classes. It was reported, for instance, that one of the first things…

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