Turkish fast food, comparable to
Greek gyros. "Döner Kebap" is actually Turkish for "spinning roast".
As you might expect for fast food, usually sold at stands on the street for around 3 euros. Consists of little bits of roasted meat cut from a spit, with
salad,
tomatoes,
onion and sauce (usually with lots of
garlic) in a white
bread or in a rolled up
pitta bread. As
Muslims may not eat
pork, the meat is usually
turkey, or
lamb. The details may vary though, and are usually quite negotiable, eg you can also get a vegetarian one with cheese and stuff.
As the legend goes, the
Döner Kebab was actually invented in
Berlin in 1971 (there's a large Turkish commune there in
Kreuzberg) as the fast food version of a traditional Turkish dish. In colloquial German it's called a
Döner - it'd be more correct to call it a
Kebab but that's somehow less common. Some newspaper claimed that the
Döner nowadays is the most popular fast food in
Germany. What I can say for sure it that every half-decent town there has at least 2 "Dönerbuden". I can recommend the "Kapadokya" at Martin-Luther-Platz in
Erlangen! My experience with Döner in other countries is unfortunately a bit limited.