Souvlaki.

I’d recently started renting in Melbourne and went for a walk along Chapel St.

I came across a shop called Lamb on Chapel and went inside.

I looked at the menu and said to the person behind the counter I’d like a lamb sandwich.

‘Would you like that in a pita bread instead?’

‘Yes, that sounds good.’

‘Some salad?’

‘Great. Thanks.’

‘Tzatziki?’

‘Sure. No idea what that is, but when in Melbourne…’.

It was the best lamb sandwich I’d ever had.

A week later I returned to the café.

There was a different person behind the counter.

‘I’d like some lamb in pita, with salad, and some of that yoghurt … I can’t remember the name…’.

‘Tzatziki?’

‘Yes!’

‘So you’d like a souvlaki?’

Often experts don’t know more than we do about what we need.

They just know what it’s called.