Crazy Duck

With the onset of more or less warm weather, the inhabitants of the United Kingdom pull out tarnished and cobweb-covered grills, barbecues and barbecues from garages and sheds, buy cutlets (burgers), sausages, chicken legs with wings and beer in stores, swearing and blowing on burned fingers ignite the coals and begin to pretend to be Americans.

This is a distorted Crimean Tatar word "shish" - "spit", "shishlyk" - "something on a spit." In Russia, such meat was called "turned" - turned over on a spit. In Armenia, shish kebab is called "khorovats", and in Azerbaijan - "kebab", in Turkey - "shish-kebab".