6 Questionable Things Lebanese People Have Done To Food

Fortunately for Lebanese people, there’s a lot of room for creativity in the culinary world. Maybe some people have taken it a bit too far with their creations, so much that we were able to compile a list of questionable things Lebanese people have done to food.

Have you tried any of these questionable things? Leave a comment below!

1. Shawarma-fying everything

Shawarma pizzas? Burgers? Croissants? *insert that one Haifa Wehbe clip of her saying PLZ KHALAS*

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Can we leave shawarma alone? What happened to just enjoying a simple lahme or djej? All these food trends are turning us into shawarma purists.

2. Combining foods that have no business being combined

Another food trend that was cute and innovative the first few times. Not everything needs to be combined.

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You don’t need to be eating your fajita in a kaake. You also don’t need manouche versions of your favorite meal that is CLEARLY not even a breakfast food.

3. Arabic sweets-turned-ice cream

We need at least a good 5 people to tell us they prefer the ice cream version of their favorite Arabic sweet. Would we rather choose a daoukiye ice cream over normal daoukiye? No, we would not. Even in the sweltering heat, we wouldn’t.

4. Making everything into a type of fatteh

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What is up with Lebanese restaurants and turning everything into fatteh? Why is fattet shawarma a thing? Why are restaurants making fattet wared? Fattet wara2 3enab? IS ANYONE REALLY ORDERING THESE DISHES?

5. Creating unnecessarily giant portions of food

Do we really need a meter-long croissant? Or a burger the size of a bicycle wheel? An abnormally large pizza that can easily feed like 3 families? Sounds gimmick-y.

6. Frying wara2 3enab

We don’t know what happened with this one. This has to be the weirdest thing we’ve seen in a WHILE – and we’ve seen a lot of weird things. This is probably how the French feel when we put shawarma in their croissants.

If you’ve tried any of the above mentioned questionable things (or something we may have missed), please let us know your thoughts. Please. We can’t be the only people tired of this.

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