Our History
Çöpşişçi Mehmet -Denizli
It is a correct claim to say that the trash skewer culture started with the train. The place where it starts is Pamukkalle and its surrounding areas, where the trains on the Denizli/Aydin Temdidi railway line reach some district distinctions...
Today, the best-known place for the garbage skewer is Çöpşişçi Mehmet, near Pamukkale on the Denizli-Ankara highway…
It is an invention of the local people to meet the hot meal needs of very hungry passengers coming from Afyon and heading towards Denizli Aydın during the train's 10-minute transfer maneuvers. Small pieces of meat lined up on spears thrown onto the grill when the sound of the locomotive was heard would be cooked as soon as the train arrived at the station.
Mehmet, the garbage skewer seller on the Ankara-Denizli highway, claims that foreign engineers first discovered garbage skewers as a result of a different food culture and popularized them among the public. Garbage skewer Mehmet's explanation is as follows: "Foreign engineers working in the Denizli Aydın railway construction had a lot of difficulties because of different food cultures. They thought about what to do for a long time and found that the safest dish was to cook the meat on sticks over the fire. If you ask why meat is cubed, larger pieces, Since they were cooked directly over fire, the outside was burnt before the inside was cooked.
Seeing that engineers started making this kebab all the time, our citizens living in this region started making and selling this food to the engineers themselves. In fact, years ago, I read in an article published in the Sunday supplement of a newspaper that the poor children of this region carried garbage skewers to the engineers with barbecues they hung around their necks.
This taste has been the indispensable taste of this region for 140 years.
The reason why garbage disposal is more advanced and adopted in this region than in other regions is that the district is also a junction of railways. Because the trains were making transfer maneuvers at the mentioned intersection, which lasted 15-20 minutes. As soon as the sound of the train was heard, the tiny pieces of meat lined up on the grill were cooked as soon as the train arrived at the station. Again, in accordance with the old tradition, it was sold to train passengers in small barbecues hung around the neck or served with onions in bread or lavash...
OF COURSE, TIMES HAVE CHANGED WITH TIME. The era is the highway era. The railway has fallen out of favor. The 1st generation family of garbage skewer Mehmet, one of the first garbage skewer makers in this region, made a living by selling garbage skewers to train passengers coming and going from the station for years, and garbage skewer Mehmet pioneered the whole family to adopt this business... In these regions, they talk about a woman called "the butcher's wife". According to garbage collector Mehmet, he is the first entrepreneur who was instrumental in moving this business to the highway. Garbage skewer Mehmet's 1st Generation Garbage skewer family over time, one by one, settled in abandoned lands next to the highway. Even though the butcher's wife knows that there are garbage collectors on her land, she does not receive rent from them and supports the continuation of this beautiful tradition. All garbage collectors consider this family their benefactor. This is the beginning of the story of the famous garbage skewer...
Çöpşişçi Mehmet
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