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Examples
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It was getting dark and after buying a kebab (or what we know as a donair) I waited at the station for over an hour.
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I'm not sure I've heard of all the variety concerning pizza dips, but down east we tend to drown it all in donair sauce.
Skinny Dipping Michele 2006
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Marilyn, I have never heard of dipping pizza in donair sauce, but from what I remember donair sauce is sort of creamy and garlicky too isn't it?
Skinny Dipping Michele 2006
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Hello again ~ I forgot that donairs and donair sauce are mostly a local phenomenon.
Buttermilk dressing | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Donair meat is ground beef with lots of spices that is cooked on a spit, then shaved off and loaded into a warmed pita with lots of chopped onions, tomatoes and donair sauce.
Buttermilk dressing | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Here in Nova Scotia, we like to dip our pizza in donair sauce.
Buttermilk dressing | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Fortunately the local pizza place makes a fantastic donair.
Buttermilk dressing | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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The sauce and pizza are incredible together, and most local pizza places also serve a donair pizza.
Buttermilk dressing | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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Calgary Sun reports: "The city has activated its emergency response plan after the old building, at Centre St. and 2 Ave., housing a karaoke bar and donair shop among other businesses, caught fire about 5 a.m."
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Our food runs the gamut, from hummus, pita, lamb tagine, maza and donair to fish and chips, steaks, chops, wings--mild, medium and suicide--and a fine assortment of salads.
alexz commented on the word donair
I didn't encounter the 'mediterranean wrap' version of this til the early 90's in Vancouver.
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2013/12/take-off-that-tuque-and-grab-a-donair-the-most-canadian-words.html
it seems to be a Canadianism.
December 28, 2013