Shishcaba

OOK   Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:08 am GMT
What is a shishcaba?
I heard the word in a New York TV show,
Guest   Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:56 am GMT
I believe it's Khlav Kalash, as in the following:

Vendor: Khlav kalash! Khlav kalash!
Homer: Can you get me some pizza?
Vendor: No pizza, only khlav kalash.
Homer: Ok I'll take a small bowl.
Vendor: No bowl. Stick.

http://uloc.nerdtank.org/media/4f22_khlav_kalash.jpg
Kirk   Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:56 am GMT
Shish kebab /SIS k@bAb/ is a form of cooked meat, often on skewers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shish_kebab
Uriel   Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:16 pm GMT
Döner kebab -- I had one of those in England. It was pretty damn wonderful!

As I was watching Love, Actually, I noticed that Liam Neeson pronounced "kebab" to rhyme with "flab". In the US, it rhymes with "bob". (Or I should say, OUR version of "bob", which has the long A as in "father".)