I've had the impression that we have more of a Middle Eastern presence, though, percentage-wise. So maybe that has something to do with it. (Haven't seen the film yet, so I don't know the context.)
It's a throw-away comment, but mostly, I'm wondering because of the number of reaction posts and review of the Avengers that has included things like stating that "yes, virginia..." it is a real food, and people saying that they don't know what it is, but they want some.
I guess you're right and it has to do with the relative numbers of people involved. I guess it's just strange because shawarma is such a common thing in Denmark and I'm used to the US having more experience? with all things ethnically not-run-of-the-mill northern European, and so to find the situation flipped for once is - a little weird.
(Why haven't you seen the film yet? *is curious* (and has seen it twice already and want to see it again, so...))
I don't know why I haven't seen it yet... I haven't seen the ones leading up to it except Thor and Iron Man 1, and I liked those well enough, but IDK, I just don't have any excitement over this. I've never read the Avengers, I have a love/hate relationship with Whedon's writing, and I don't much like the ads (oh look! Boobies right at the center of focus!) so I haven't much felt like it. Plus, just spent a week in Istanbul doing other things. But I probably will see it, sooner or later, since everyone seems to like it including critics.
I don't much like the ads (oh look! Boobies right at the center of focus!) I didn't waste much time looking at ads - some trailers and clips, but not so much ads. And during the movie itself I didn't really notice that much male-gaze-lingering-on-womanly-forms (there's some, just, not so much - and there's plenty of lingering-on-manly-forms too) and Black Widow is awesome :-) (I wish there were more women in the movie or that it at least passed the Bechdel, but - well, the women that are there are cool, at least).
That said, it is a very Joss Whedon movie - both the good and the bad of it. Mind you, it has given my a shiny new lab-partners-and-BFFs-forever ship in Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, so I'm happy :-)
Well, that would make sense, as döner kebab and shawarma are different regional variations on the same theme (and in DK they seem to practically interchangable anyway), so what name got established would involve which group of immigrants got there first, so to speak.
The US is multi-ethnic, but there are regional pockets where one ethnicity is more common than all the rest.
That said, New York City is probably one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth, and the fact that Tony had never tried shawarma -- well, the only explanation is that he's a rich man who only ever eats street food and fast food on a lark.
Also, I grew up in Texas, and shawarma was gyro -- Greek instead of Levantine, but substantially the same thing.
Making Light had an amusing thread about the movie in which people from NYC tried to puzzle out what shawarma place they could be referencing -- especially since most of the ones in the area where the fight took place seem to be kosher shawarma places.
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I guess you're right and it has to do with the relative numbers of people involved. I guess it's just strange because shawarma is such a common thing in Denmark and I'm used to the US having more experience? with all things ethnically not-run-of-the-mill northern European, and so to find the situation flipped for once is - a little weird.
(Why haven't you seen the film yet? *is curious* (and has seen it twice already and want to see it again, so...))
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I didn't waste much time looking at ads - some trailers and clips, but not so much ads. And during the movie itself I didn't really notice that much male-gaze-lingering-on-womanly-forms (there's some, just, not so much - and there's plenty of lingering-on-manly-forms too) and Black Widow is awesome :-) (I wish there were more women in the movie or that it at least passed the Bechdel, but - well, the women that are there are cool, at least).
That said, it is a very Joss Whedon movie - both the good and the bad of it. Mind you, it has given my a shiny new lab-partners-and-BFFs-forever ship in Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, so I'm happy :-)
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I saw some YouTube comment that was only "Hulk slash!" :-) That made me grin.
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That said, New York City is probably one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth, and the fact that Tony had never tried shawarma -- well, the only explanation is that he's a rich man who only ever eats street food and fast food on a lark.
Also, I grew up in Texas, and shawarma was gyro -- Greek instead of Levantine, but substantially the same thing.
Making Light had an amusing thread about the movie in which people from NYC tried to puzzle out what shawarma place they could be referencing -- especially since most of the ones in the area where the fight took place seem to be kosher shawarma places.