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“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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"Least disappointing experience" is how I would put the better kebab places in Berlin! Shawarma in Tel Aviv is not exactly the same but similar and so much better (of course there's a lot of variability in quality there too, and it costs something like 2-3x as much as kebabs in Berlin). I'm sure you can also get amazing specimen in Arab countries and in Turkey (I don't have first hand experience there).

Ok but I was talking about European cities, and Döner Kebab. You're comparing it to a different dish as made in a country from the Arabian peninsula. It's fine to say that the latter is the better food but it makes no sense in the context of arguing where to get the best kebab in Europe.

I'm not arguing about where to get the best döner kebab in Europe. Just saying it's sad that the best we can get is this mediocre.

Shawarma is basically a variation of the same dish:

    "The shawarma technique—grilling a vertical stack of meat slices and cutting it off as it cooks—first appeared in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century in the form of döner kebab,[1][14][15] which both the Greek gyros and the Levantine shawarma are derived from."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawarma

Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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Reviews probably have too much noise. It's not only the food that gets rated and people taking the time to rate a place might be doing so because of a particularly good or bad experience they just had. It's not really a day to day thing.

Not true -- restaurant reviews have a lot of signal. Generally an average score is quite reliable once you hit 100 or so reviews. Even 50 reviews is a pretty decent signal.

Maybe, I've heard statisticians say that 30 samples the mean is pretty much unlikely to change, but that's not the issue here, but that what we are measuring goes beyond food quality and gets skewed towards experiences

Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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I have a similar theory for restaurants at prime tourist location, the closer it is, the worse the food and service are.

And it kind of makes sense, as:

1) The real state is obviously more expensive, so little money left for the rest

2) The traffic is given, people walk in even if the place is on fire, so no pull is needed

I think a good test for this would be lookin at michelin star restaurants (better than gmaps)

Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”

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"Getting"? HN has always been like this. Christ this website can be so full of insufferable pedantry. I don't know why people think that such comments are a good contribution.

N gate died far too soon...

i made a markov chain off the site after converting to json and the first generate_sentence():

> "contextualize for a good old-fashioned shitfight about the internet. Hackernews does software they vote on their eggs in Google's ultimate"

I'm unwilling to share that json here, because of the implications.

btw i remembered both of you that mentioned it this week, and got up and pwshed it out.

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