The kebab is the most popular fast food among Germans. But in the past few months prices have exploded. The Left Party is now outlining the “kebab price brake”.
It is the star among the street food dishes in Germany’s big cities, especially among young people: the kebab. But in recent months the prices for meat prepared on the rotisserie have risen sharply. Higher food and energy costs are to blame. According to a survey by the Lieferando delivery service, a doner kebab in the capital now costs around seven euros. In Hamburg they even charge up to ten euros.
The maximum price should be this high
The Left is therefore now outlining a “kebab price cap”. In the future, the snack should not cost more than 4.90 euros. The state should cover the additional costs. What sounds like a joke is actually stated in a paper from the party executive committee star is present. “Every year 1.3 billion kebabs are eaten in Germany,” it says: “If the state pays three euros for each kebab, the kebab price cap would cost almost four billion.”
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But the Left doesn’t want to leave it at a cap on kebab prices. All German citizens should receive a “doner kebab voucher” per week with which they can purchase a kebab for five euros, and a reduced price for students for 2.50 euros. The snack bar operators should be able to claim the excess amount back from the state.
The large supermarket chains should also be obliged to guarantee that basic food and hygiene products are offered “at affordable prices”. According to the paper, the guideline should be the citizen’s allowance standard rate for food and non-alcoholic drinks. The proposal was put forward by the Left’s youth policy spokeswoman, Kathrin Gebel. “It is hard to expect the food industry and supermarkets to lower prices now,” she told the star: “The price of kebabs will remain high if the government doesn’t change anything.”
The chances of implementing the Left’s proposal are close to zero. But the party is likely to hit a nerve with young people. For some, it has now become a kind of running joke to ask Chancellor Olaf Scholz to lower kebab prices at public meetings. Several videos of this can be seen on TikTok. After a performance in Munich, a young man called out to him as he was leaving: “I’ll pay 8 euros for kebab. Talk to Putin!”
Steinmeier received criticism with his kebab
It is the second time that the Berlin kebab was served on his trip to Turkey. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had one served in Istanbul as an expression of the German-Turkish bond. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan retaliated by putting Turkish kebab on the menu at the meeting with Steinmeier.
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In Germany, Steinmeier’s gesture was . He was accused on social networks of reducing Turkish culture in Germany to a cliché with the kebab.
Source: Stern
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