One meter of silver watch display still separates the falafel shop and the shawarma snack bar.

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So, during their stay in Mina, Babar took her husband on a quest for some good shawarma.

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In a year, the shawarma snack bar and the small falafel shack opened.

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"There are so many things that I talk about that are absolutely foreign to him, ... even eating a chicken shawarma, the best sandwich in the entire world, " she added.

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Other popular jokes involve hummus and shawarma troubles.

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