Oldest kebab roll in the Netherlands has already turned a million rounds
World record:
It’s a party at kebab shop Amir’s Place in Lelystad. A kebab roll has turned a whopping a million rounds. That’s a world record. The number of rounds is still increasing, because the kebab roll is still there.
Owner Amir Amrani is over the moon. “We hung this kebab roll in October 2019. It was not my intention to break a record then. The turnover was so low that the role remained hanging for months. After that, there was another catering lockdown and because my customers stayed away faithfully after that, the role now has a million rounds on the counter.”
In the fall of last year, the kebab roll hung for exactly two years. “Then I found out how many laps were needed for a world record,” Amir says. “The old record was held by a kebab seller in Jordan. His role had turned over 900,000 rounds, but that was because no one looked at it anymore. The owner is deceased. With a million laps, the record is now in my name.”
How many rounds are left? Amir has no idea. “I hope this roll makes it to two million rounds. For the years there is still enough meat on it, but it is decreasing. On the one hand through natural decomposition, initially because someone orders a kebab sandwich.”