German love of certificates

I don't think this could happen in any other country; according to der Spiegel there is now a training course in making kebabs!

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If your only, or main, qualification is making kebabs what other jobs are opened up so that you are "re-employable"?

Makes you wonder what other daft qualifications are out there.

I don't think it has anything to do with Germans loving certificates. It's just the German way of reducing the amount of untrained people in the statistics. For example, for years anyone that could use a shammy leather could be a window cleaner, then they made a profession out of it.

It is the German love of "making a course": if you want to paddle in the river, "make a course"; to teach skiing - "make a course"; to brew coffee... ..."make a course".

I believe you have to "make a course" if you want a fishing license.

Do you have to "make a course" to practice intercourse?

why? you offering?

Just invite a sex gutachter round to observe a session.
I think I have found a new line of work.

VHS Mobile telefon für anfänger teil 1 und 2

You can also do a two, yes two part course in using a mobile phone at the Volkshochschule and get a lovely certificate at the end of it.

I have never wanted to do a course so much in my life. How to use a mobile. That is quite simply fantastic. It's gotta be worth going to, it'd be pure comedy.

Jusat what is the permit called?

A "Dönerkebapmachergutschein"?

um is it to slap the meat on the bread and add the sauce or is it to creat the fleischspinndel thingy. honest question I could actually see finding the meat on the which ever animal and slapping it together in that form could actually require some training.

Maybe all of Toytown should sign up for it, or make it a tt flash mob. My imagination tells me they will have a giant phone like alan jolly. "Ja, Hallo...Ja...ich bin im Handy Schule...Ja es ist scheise... Ja..." etc.

May-be it's an Elephants leg!!!

Easy to fucking scoff isn't it. (sic)

Might seem ripe for a joke at first glance but this is about getting people from migrant backgrounds who don't have a row of German qualifications (cos they get a raw deal at school mostly) to get certificates to help them into jobs. Youth unemployment amongst people with migrant backgrounds is particuarly high.

And with all the scandals around dodgy meat over the last few years, I'm happy if the Turkish lad serving my kebab has an idea about food hygene.

It's NOT a German love of bureaucracy, cos the people serving you a Kebab in the UK also have to have had training in food hygene.

I think it's a good idea. Most Döner Kebabs in this city are disgusting: low quality turkey meet, with rotten onions and other dirty veggies, stale bread, and that disgusting creamy sauce they throw on it. Who knows what's in that? Gross. Puke. BLAAAAH!!! I am convinced they are poisoned in some way or another. It's like the Turks subtle way of revenge: look at all the Europeans walking around with bad breath.

Kebabs in Munich are VERY 50-50. I only eat them from a handful of places where I know they are decent.

Maybe but maybe my point was it might not just be how to slap a sandwich together and maybe more along the lines of butchering said elephants leg and reattaching in a nice and healthy fashion so it can sit and grow bacteria at a lovely warm temperature in a doener kabab shop.

Absolutely. I spent my 1st year here sampling as many kebab joints around town. There are many shite ones, but there are some pure gold ones too. I have my secret fave spot which uses beef and feta cheese. It is the schiznitt.

Now that maddeningly persistent German virtue known as order is being imposed on the untidy kebab.


A Kebab Specialist Diplom?