kebab vs kabob

southsam

Are there just 2 different ways to spell the same thing?  Or are these 2 different things?  Am I an idiot?

lizlaughlove21

Wikipedia says its the same thing

southsam

I figured it had to be true!!

I think it is kabob b/c that's how it is said.  WhoTF says KEE BAAAAB?

BensBabe823

It's not an English word, it's just transliteration, so there are many ways to spell it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

Just like Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Chanuka... they are just phonetic spellings of a Hebrew word so there is not really one correct way, although some are more widely used than others.

mamakrystal

i kinda say both...Ina has it listed as kebab's in her cookbooks. But I've always heard it as Kabob. (kaaaaa-bob!)

lizlaughlove21

southsam:

  WhoTF says KEE BAAAAB?

LOL!!!!!!!! I've never heard of kebab, but then again...

My grandma calls a washing machine a WORSHing machine...

Tomato tom-oto

ect ect....

People are weird.

taraandkyle06

liz_ramirez00:

Wikipedia says its the same thing

they are basically the same but sometimes different.

a shish kabob, as we know it, consists of smaller pieces of meat on a skewer or stick that are cooked then taken off as pieces.

you'll also find kebab as a big hunk of meat (often lamb or beef tenderloin) that is slow-cooked on a long metal rod.  when cooked, the rod is stood up on its end and the meat is shaved off with a sharp knife.

blu-eyedwife

southsam:

I think it is kabob b/c that's how it is said.  WhoTF says KEE BAAAAB?

It's actually more like keh-bob, the vowels are short, not long.

(e as in ready, a as in awful) 

FieryIrishAngel

When I think of kebab, it applies to doner kebab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab, which isn't quite the same thing as a shish kabob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

taraandkyle06

FieryIrishAngel:

When I think of kebab, it applies to doner kebab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab, which isn't quite the same thing as a shish kabob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

exactly.  thanks for finding a pic of the first one - that's what i was trying to describe.

FieryIrishAngel

taraandkyle06:

FieryIrishAngel:

When I think of kebab, it applies to doner kebab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab, which isn't quite the same thing as a shish kabob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebab

exactly.  thanks for finding a pic of the first one - that's what i was trying to describe.

It took me a few minutes to think of the full name, so I can understand!

4321sophie1234

Everyone I know, who says kabob? It sounds ridiculous. Hang on... let me guess... you're an American aren't you?

Boris71w

It's an American thing. The USA uses Kabob, the rest of the world uses Kebab. In the rest of the world, 'kabob', if used at all, is particular to just Afghanistan versions of the dish. 'Kebab' is used throughout Europe - what the Americans call gyros (which is a Greek dish) the rest of the world calls a doner kebab (which is Turkish and is what the Greeks copied for a gyros). Shish Kebab refers to any meat grilled on skewers but meat cooked 'loose' on the grill is also a kebab, usually with another prefix i.e. Shami Kebab is an Indian minced meat pattie cooked on the grill (sorry, "ground meat pattie" for our American friends)