Have you ever wondered why, just a block away from each other on Sonnenallee, there are two near-identical-yet-slightly-different rotisserie chicken shops – "City Chicken" and "Nhas City Chicken"? The story is more dramatic than you'd think, according to a ZEIT profile published over the weekend that exposed Berlin's bloody rotisserie chicken war. The piece details the friendship and fallout between the owners of the two joints – which ended with one would-be chicken king in prison for torture.
The cameras kept rolling, capturing Ramtin beating his victim for hours.
The two late-night poultry purveyors have "almost identical names and [offer] the same thing: half a chicken prepared according to an Arabic recipe, with hummus, garlic sauce, and coleslaw," ZEIT wrote. "They are, in a way, a bit like the Albrecht brothers, who made their fortunes with Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord."
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