If you feel pecking while exploring European cities, there are a variety of options available. While quick and casual bites can be found in familiar American fast food chains or local street food specialties, the kebab joint is a particularly ubiquitous option. These independently operated businesses appear throughout the continent to offer a always convenient and delicious meal. Some operations are even community fixtures, even blended with local flavors, innovating new dishes for Swedish barbecue pizza (such as barbecue croaker).
However, due to their success, the kebabs have also caused some controversy in Europe. Some feel guardian of the foreign origins of the dish, a fact that many barbecue shops operate further. In 2009, an Italian town in Tuscany even took legal action to cancel new licenses for foreign-run restaurants in the city center. Soon, more locations in Italy were accompanied by; Verona, Tuscany and Venice 2017.
Visitor hotspots didn’t pick out kebabs – all other takeaway foods except ice cream are included in the legislation. In fact, local media even specifically mentioned that the law is not a disgust of kebabs, but a efforts to maintain local cuisine. The Venetians have long been troubled by the lack of emphasis on local culture. Venice and other Italian cities are the best food destinations around, so you can still find a delicious meal – but this won’t be a Venetian kebab.
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Venetian officials ban kebabs to promote local ingredients and business
Scenic landscapes in Venice, Italy – valid/shutterstock
Of course, eating kebabs in Venice may not be an experience worth mentioning, but the consequences of the ban are crucial. Although the legislation does not directly close all barbecue shops operating in the city, it does enforce new strict rules for barbecue shops that are already running. Some believe such policies are nationalist and discriminatory. Also, like other delicacies, Italian food has incorporated many unrelated elements – so the boundaries of Italian are actually unclear.
Venetian lawmakers refuted the battle with kebabs, which had nothing to do with the dish itself, but rather the ingredients hired. One catalyst for the ban is to increase the use of local products in a harmonious way with urban culture. Kebab shops often import meat from manufacturing facilities; a method that is inconsistent with Venice’s goal of all traditional Italian dining. At the same time, the municipal government pointed out that there is a lack of friction in takeaway style. In fact, there is even a struggle to open a picnic area. One of the best ways to cultivate a meal in Europe. Not only that, city officials do not want tourists to consume kebabs on crowded city streets.
Five years later, the policy was renewed, this time as an additional angle for historical preservation. In addition to restaurants, the approach extends to shops and strives to retain Italian businesses only within heritage buildings. Subsequently, the hardship of foreign business owners continued and the barbecue kebabs were still not found.
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