In Finland you can also get pancakes with jam and cream, but any mention of pancakes will reduce ET to flame wars, so I'll say no more ;-)

English Fish and Chips should only be eaten north of Northampton. The Mecca of the dish is Harry Ramsden's near Leeds.

I never understood the Dutch fascination with 'croquettes', and as for the Dutch/Belgian desire for mayonnaise with their chips - the mind shudders.

I rarely eat street food these days, unless driving long distances by car at night. Then I might stop by a Maccari (McDonalds) and get a hamburger unique to Finland AFAIK - A MacRye, with the normal bun replaced by two dark ryebreads. Just a little bit healthier...

Though there is other localization; the Kiwi Burger in New Zealand, the Maharadja Mac in India, a meat-free McNistisima menu for fasting Greek Orthodox in Cyprus. <so it says here>

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As for British kebabs being the most spicy, is that straight Kebabs or the more spicy Khofte kebabs?

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

And Ice Cream.  Yum!

I never ate the street shashlik in Russia (but what is that red sauce they put on it?  YUM!!!) but I always got ice cream (in the dead of winter! crazy Russians!) and khachipuri from street kiosks.  Man, I really miss Georgian food...  I could totally go for some shashlik and khachipuri.

I also like the potato pancakes the outdoor German markets serve in the winter here.

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Acland Street is famous for its cakes, which are rainbow coloured, disgusting in both taste and texture and should be avoided like the plague.

Closer to home, Gaby's, a small shop on the street between Leicester square and Trafalgar square does reasonable falafel (but no Acland Street).  For meat-eaters, however, I've been told that its salt beef sandwich is to die for.

And there are simit carts all over the city, selling Turkish bagels.  They come in several different varieties-the most common, and our favourites, were the puffy, brioche-like one and the sesame.

ie sausages in a thin potato scone (sort of a potato tortilla).

Then add lovely crunchy stektløk (crunchy fried onions), ketchup and/or sennep (mustard)

Yummmm....

Others have mentioned falafel, which is called taamiya here and is eaten in a variety of ways for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Another fava bean favorites is fuul, a brown bean paste which could be called the national dish (although I can think of at least three other "national dishes") and is also eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner.   It can be served with tahini or without.  It's usually served with a variety of things you can add if you like -- chopped raw onions and tomatoes, fresh lemon juice, spices you can sprinkle in.  (Lebanon has its own version of fuul that's a bit different -- it's not pureed, and it's seasoned as it's cooked, so it's served without the garnishes.)

Shwarma, of course.  Chicken or lamb, usually.  Everywhere.  I like the Lebanese version of chicken shwarma, which comes with a very zesty garlic sauce and usually has fries & pickles rolled right into the sandwich.

Koshari is one of my favorites -- rice, brown lentils, macaroni and fried onions, with a spicy tomato sauce, and then at the table you can add vinegar (if you want) or more chili sauce.  Mmmmmm... a carb-fest.  I love this stuff, seriously.

At a place near my office, I can get nice little fuul and taamiya sandwiches in tiny bread pockets, and also a really tasty egg-and-basterma sandwich that I never get tired of.  Basterma is an Ottoman thing, I think -- it's seasoned air-cured meat.  (I'm pretty careful where I eat it because, yow, raw meat, but boy is it good.)

Also, there are all kinds of things sold from little carts on the street, depending on the season -- roast corn on the cob, roast yams, fresh cactus fruit (not sure what these are called, they look like prickly pears), roast nuts of all sorts (in midwinter, roast chestnuts are a star), fuul nabit (which are sprouted fava beans still in the shell, boiled and salted and very yummy).  The roasting is done on the carts, which have little stoves.  Lately, I've been seeing a lot of sugar cane, sold by the five-foot stalk -- I think mostly it gets juiced, people love sugar cane juice here.

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A bit out of the way for most people on the EuroTrib, but.

Meat pies are the most expert-friendly fast food in Oz, since they run the gamut from delectable to nearly inedible to severe regret. For example, if tempted to buy a train station meat pie, buy an apple and hang on until you reach civilization. Khebabs are far more uniform quality, from so-so to pretty good.

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In the Netherlands, you should not get a hamburger from that machine. Get a frikandel! Or a kroket! Better yet, don't get it from the machine! Go to the counter and ask for a broodje frikandel speciaal. Hmmm...

I have to admit that I never tried that Madrid food. Should go to Spain someday.

The local food in Berlin is Curry mit Pommes, which looks like this:

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Although more people eat Döner.