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What is the name of the spiced minced-meat mixture, stuffed into baladi bread and pressed in a sandwich grill until crisp, that is a working-class lunch staple?
Answer: Hawawshi — Hawawshi is raw spiced minced meat with onions and peppers sealed inside a split baladi loaf, then baked or pressed in a hot grill — invented by an Alexandrian butcher named al-Hawawsh in the 1970s, it became so ubiquitous that his name is now a generic noun.
- A Shawarma
- B Kofta sandwich
- C Hawawshi ✓
- D Feteer meshaltet
Hawawshi is raw spiced minced meat with onions and peppers sealed inside a split baladi loaf, then baked or pressed in a hot grill — invented by an Alexandrian butcher named al-Hawawsh in the 1970s, it became so ubiquitous that his name is now a generic noun.