Remember that crazy promotion that CBC did a couple of weeks ago to celebrate the launch of Little Mosque on the Prairie? Where we paraded camels through Toronto’s Dundas Square, and made a 300-pound shawarma?

Well, here’s a question: What do you do with a 300-lb shawarma machine when it’s all over?

Answer: sell it on Craig’s List.

Here’s the ad:

Giant Shawarma Machine - Used Once - in Perfect Condition - purchased for promotion of new TV show - Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Location: Hamilton

According to The Hamilton Spectator, the job of cooking the world’s largest shawarma fell to Joshua Hendin of Hamilton’s BBQ Catering:

Normally a corporate events expert, he bought a mega-machine to cook the world’s largest shawarma (63.5 kilograms of chicken) in Toronto’s Dundas Square at the Little Mosque premiere party….But Hendin admits the machine was a one-off purchase. He doesn’t need it for his usual work: large corporate events.

Asking price for the giant shawarma machine: $2,200, “substantially less” than what he paid for it.

(Photos courtesy of Christopher Bird at Torontoist. He enjoyed the free food, but complains that it wasn’t really one big sandwich.)

[Editor's note: If I win this week's 6/49, I'm buying the shawarma machine for installation in the Barbara Frum Atrium. Then people can just come by at any time and cut themselves a big hunk of halal meat. CBC'ers, design students, folks lined up to see an Air Farce taping – just help yourself!]

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