I have eaten hundreds of shish kebabs in Turkey over the years

I have eaten hundreds of shish kebabs in Turkey over the years: "I have eaten hundreds of shish kebabs in Turkey over the years - they are great - however, I would take this warning serious even it was said in fun.

A frantic search has been under way for a python missing from the Ankara Zoo, even as a cabinet minister suggested the snake may already have passed through a kebab merchant’s meat grinder.

“I advise citizens not to eat shish kebab until the python is found,” he said, presumably tongue-in-cheek. "