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    Italy: Venice bans kebabs to ‘preserve decorum and traditions' of the city

    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raditions-city



    In an effort to “preserve decorum and traditions” in the romantic canal city of Venice, local authorities have banned new kebab shops and other fast-food outlets from opening.

    A law passed on Thursday will also limit shops selling pizza by the slice. Only shops selling artisanal ice cream will be spared from the measure, long championed by the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro.

    Paola Mar, the city’s tourism chief, said: “We want to put the brakes on types of activities which are not compatible with the preservation and development of Venice’s cultural heritage.”

    Mar said the city was not opposed to kebabs or other types of fast food, and stressed she did not have a problem with people eating outside, although the consumption of takeaway food in St Mark’s Square is prohibited.

    “The problem is that with a tourist city like ours, there is a risk of it losing its identity. There are local products that we must try to promote, this would be better for the spirit of the city and, at an environmental level, would be more sustainable.”

    Mar said there were plans to develop picnic areas to deter visitors from eating takeaway food in tourist hotspots.

    Venice is the latest Italian city to limit the sale of fast food in a country that prides itself on its national cuisine. Last year Verona stopped the opening of new kebab shops, while Florence has attempted to clamp down on “foreign food” by ruling that all new restaurants and food shops in the city’s historic centre must ensure at least 70% of their produce is local.

    In Venice, which receives millions of visitors each year, the authorities have long grappled with how to protect the city and its environment.

    The tourist influx has angered local residents, with several posters appearing across the city last summer with the message: “Tourists go away!!! You are destroying this area!”

    Local authorities have experimented with various measures to manage the number of tourists and make the city more “liveable”, including making tourists wait longer at popular vaporetto [water taxi] stops, on top of paying €6 more than locals for a ride.

    Recent reports also suggested Venice was mulling charging visitors a fee to enter St Mark’s Square. Mar said this might be something the city adopts on a trial basis, but no firm plan has been drawn up.
    Italians best kebab removers ?

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    This is a problem? Seems like a reasonable compromise to preserve the city's heritage.

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    But how will drunks feed themselves at 3am?

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    Some of the best lunches I'd had in Italy were at a little stand in Florence run by a couple Egyptians: those wraps were phenomenal! Great food for when you're walking around town.

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    Nice bait you have there, or rather the guardian. But making it about islam is as ridiculous as it can get.
    The new law greatly limits the amount of take-away fast-food shops, obviously kebab shops fall under this category as well as all others, for exampe McDonalds and even pizza take-aways. To make this news about islam you really need to far fetch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sztyrymytyry View Post
    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raditions-city



    Italians best kebab removers ?
    someone shouldve shoved some of those kebabs down your throat for the sake of diversity, which is a natural occurrence in nature. gene sharing is of utter imporatance for a species survival as well as eating of those kebabs

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    The city: regulates take away food stores, and looks into picnic areas.
    The guardian: Venice bans kebabs.
    Sour grapes: lolz, it smells bad anyway.

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    What i read was all new fast food shops, which of them including kebabs.

    Seems like another article that is written with the intend to bait by highlighting one specific element while it covers a whole range of shops. And to no surprise people fall for it easily, since reading is hard, outrage is easy.

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    A life without Kebab is a life not worth living, you may as well take curries and fish and chips with it!

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    Hard to see this got anything to do with islam as OP's picture is hinting. Venice is true to it's heritage sure, but may as well ban other foreign foods as well to avoid double standards. Any idea if McDonald has a restaurant there?

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    '"and other fast-food outlets from opening."

    Given, we'd ban Islam as a whole of we could.
    But you should bold that part too.

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    Pretty soon we will all be wearing blue jeans and listening to their music.

    Someone is going for a culture victory.

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    Meanwhile, kebab is originally a Greek food, stolen by Turks.

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    A lot of cities seek to limit certain kinds of restaurants in order to preserve a specific style or image. I have very little desire to visit most of them, Venice being near the top of the list of overrated places.

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    Anti fast food, not anti Muslim. They're even banning pizza

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    While people will undoubtly try to spin this into some form of race/religion debate I doubt that applies here. We have the same problem in Amsterdam, a massive increase in tourist shops like nutella salonas has led to a massive reduction in store diversity.
    Foreign investors jump on the hype train of whatever sells well at the moment. Do you really need 50 kebab stores in the city center at the cost of traditional italian, family-owned stores which add a lot of charm when visiting an Italian city?

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    This man is pleased:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Therionn View Post
    Anti fast food, not anti Muslim. They're even banning pizza
    Italians banning Pizza?!

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    They have removed kebab!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gabriel View Post
    What the fuck has Islam to do with anything here?
    Baiting reactions

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