> Crossing Sixth Ave, we enter the area of the
> Village I'm most familiar with. However, our
> only eating stop was for a falafel shop.
> There's a huge cone of meat, a good three feet
> in diameter at the top, about a foot across at
> the bottom. It is about four feet tall. Our
> insane tour guide tells us that it's made of
> layers of beef and lamb. The guy behind the
> stand slowly spins the meat cone and shaves off
> thin slices. The side of the meat cone that is
> away from him his being cooked by heat coils.
> This is called a doner kabob ("spinning"
> kabob). They go through one of these meat
> cones each day.

That's the most common fast food item in this part of Germany. It's more frequent here than, say, Fish&Chips shops in England. The meat cones are usually a bit smaller, though.

Fuzz"in some areas, you can't walk 20 meters without running into a döner opportunity"pilz

(PS)
As far as I know, they were invented in Berlin by an immigrant from Turkey.