ABSTRACT
Döner kebap is a fast food introduced and incorporated into the German market by Turkish migrants living in the Federal Republic of Germany (hereafter FRG). 1 Although döner (in the form offered in Germany) is itself a new and hybrid product that developed through Turks’ migration experience in Germany, it became the traditional ethnic food of Turks in the eyes of the Germans. Nothing else is so often quoted as döner kebap to refer to the positive effects of Turks’ presence in Germany. Indeed it functions as a positive symbol in multiculturalist discourses, more or less like the scarf worn by Turkish girls and women which has become mainly the negative symbol in discourses of the lack of integration of German Turks.
