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The United Kingdom section

I have edited the United Kingdom section to better cover the traditional and most common street foods available in Britain. I did not mention the growing number of gourmet street vendors who are becoming increasingly popular in big cities like Birmingham and London. I am not sure how to go about that without making it extremely lengthy. The section is quite choppy at the moment and could benefit from being copy edited to make sentences flow more smoothly. I have not added any references as I don't know how to write them correctly. The potato ovens I am referring to are these: 1 which are common in busy shopping areas. Walker Slake (talk) 04:46, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to add sources to the text but to provide basis for my edits, an article on jellied eels by the Telegraph listing "pie, mash, jellied eels, and liquor" and mentioning its increasing scarcity in comparison to earlier prevalence 2, and an article where baked potato "waltzers" (a nickname for the mobile potato oven vendors I can't find anywhere else) are mentioned as traditionally serving chili con carne. 3 Walker Slake (talk) 05:12, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

regarding length, once a section has sufficient sourced content, then it is spun out into its own article such as Street foods in the United Kingdom, and a link to the new article and a summary is left here. This whole article is a mess and should probably be spun out to just be primarily a list of lists List of street foods in Africa, List of street foods in Asia etc. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 09:27, 9 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for adding the citation. I agree that the article needs some significant cleanup. I think the Turkish section in particular which has subsections for each major city and region would benefit from being in its own article. I'll go read up on citing sources. Walker Slake (talk) 01:33, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Injera??

The article says that injera is sold as a street food in Ethiopia. I very much doubt that. Can anybody verify that injera is sold that way?? Pete unseth (talk) 14:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Original research

Thanks to everyone for their contributions to this page. Please keep in mind though, that it's not acceptable to write articles based on your own experience, see Wikipedia:No original research. The large majority of this article has no verifiable sources, and appears to have been written by people describing what they know about their own communities. Certain things that are obvious facts or common knowledge, such as "Paris is the capital of France" don't require citations. But everything else must be something that has been published by reliable secondary sources, such as professional travel writers and food critics from recognized newspapers and magazines, or books. Otherwise the material is likely to be removed. Thank-you. -- IamNotU (talk) 23:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

'Punters'

In the Australia section, punters does not sound professional, but that is not what bothers me. When writing articles, people should assume that no-one knows the regional lingo, and should provide a definition if necessary. Not only that, but saying that it lowers drunken violence seems dubious to me. Akaishi42 (talk) 23:55, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]