Fears over €10 kebabs go all the way to German parliament
The doner, known as Germany’s national dish, is being skewered by the rising prices of ingredients amid cost of living crisis, MPs are told
It has always been a delicious – if slightly greasy – treat for Germans, perhaps even their national dish.
But the mighty döner kebab has now become a symbol of the country’s cost of living crisis, amid warnings from some quarters that the dish will soon cost more than €10 a serving.
Peckish Germans are so concerned about rising prices that the issue was debated this week in the Bundestag, the German parliament.
Hanna Steinmüller, an MP for the Greens, raised the issue after she was approached by anxious members of a frisbee youth club in Gesundbrunnen, part of her Berlin constituency.
Among the frisbee players’ main concerns, she told MPs, was “increased kebab prices” which are estimated to have gone up from around €3.50 (£2.90) in 2022 to at least €6 (£5.10) in recent months.
In November, one major döner producer warned that it was becoming a “luxury” dish that could soon end up costing as much as €10 (£8.50).
3,50€ for Döner in 2022 might be a Berlin thing, in other cities this price was more like 2012. A "major döner producer" is not a credible source for economical forecasting, hell it is probably one of the shittiest places to have Döner in general
Döner prices have gone up, as has everything else. Also there is no such thing as a right on having cheap meat.
As a Berliner, it doesn't match my memory either. I don't have historical data other than my own shitty memory, but I remember vaguely getting upset at Döner prices during the Pandemic being above 3,50€ (so in 2020).
I paid 3,50 in Hamburg in 2007. These days it's 7,90 at the same place. Just based on inflation over that period it should cost under 5 Euro.
Covid-profiteering.
{Confused American Noises}?
These days, the things people believe they have a right to are insane. It frequently spills over into preventing other people from doing or having certain things.