Coming Soon to Your Phone: This ‘Stuffed Flatbread’ Emoji?

Nothing says a feast like “stuffed flatbread.” (Photo courtesy of the Unicode Consortium)

As we patiently wait for the approved bacon, avocado, and croissant emojis that are due to be released in June 2016, the Unicode Consortium is hard at work deliberating other potential emojified foodstuffs.

The latest item up for debate is something the UC’s emoji committee is calling “stuffed flatbread,” which is based on the popular German fast-food dish Döner kebab. According to the formal request that was sent to the UC, the effort to legitimize this snack was headed by a German journalist named Max Zierer, who works for a radio station called PULS. Zierer was apparently inspired to write a formal request after the station posted a video which laments the absence of certain essential emoji from the standard set, much like American news outlets (including Yahoo) have done in the past.

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As I reported last month, the Unicode Consortium recently updated its guidelines for approving new emoji, adding an extensive list of requirements an illustration must meet before it is passed on for a vote from the entire organization. In this case, its special emoji committee likely renamed the Döner Kebab to “stuffed flatbread” to make the symbol more versatile without realizing that that name sounds like a disgusting Subway special. But in the end, the only thing that really matters to the committee is that the name is vague and the symbol looks like a pita stuffed with delicious ingredients.

Anyway, it’s still not a sure thing that this thing will make the cut. But judging from a Tweet from Adobe representative Ken Lunde, they have at least one supporter in the consortium’s main voting body.

Your move, redheads.

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