Mahmut Aygűn died in January 2009. Who he? The savior of Saturday night drinkers across the Western world. This snack-food visionary invented the Doner Kebab. And you thought it was a traditional Middle Eastern staple.

Born in Turkey, Aygűn, who was 87 when he died, moved to Germany to save up money to open a restaurant. Working at a snack stall, he says he suddenly realised how much easier it would be to serve kebab meat in a way that diners could carry it off with them, instead of stand around scooping the rice-and-roasted-lamb mix up off paper plates with plastic forks.

On March 2, 1971, his restaurant 'Hasir' in Berlin became the first anywhere to serve meat with salad and sauce inside a pitta bread. 

That's not all. He also invented the crucial spiced and garlicked yogurt sauce that is drizzled over the filling.

The name he came up with for this First Aid kit for weekend revellers comes from 'Dondurmek', the Turkish word for 'rotate.'

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