[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Gyros (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/17/2016 1:06:00 PM EDT
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Do restaurants in the country have gryos, you know the kind that
has meat shaved off a vertical rotisserie or is it just a city thing? |
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Perhaps the most mispronounced food item in the U.S. There's a ton of gyro shops near me and I'm convinced now there is no right or wrong way to say it. When I was in Greece they called them "year-ohs"....then again, the gyro was invented in the US so who's to say that's right? |
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If the meat isn't supplied by Kronos or homemade it generally tastes like shit. No idea about rural gyro joints, though. I had one in Iowa City and it was disgusting. I just watched a video on YouTube that was a tour of Kronos I think it was on zagat's channel. Pretty neat but kind of wish I hadn't watched it. Edit I believe the Kronos guy said they supply over 90% of the gyro meat in the country |
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I just watched a video on YouTube that was a tour of Kronos I think it was on zagat's channel. Pretty neat but kind of wish I hadn't watched it. Edit I believe the Kronos guy said they supply over 90% of the gyro meat in the country I'm not a picky eater but that's one thing I am about. Pretty much everywhere in the Chicago area has Kronos supply gyro meat and Vienna Beef supply hot dogs and Polishes (one of the bright spots of this shithole is the food). I can really taste the difference when a place offers other brands and so can most people I know. Those joints never really last. |
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Plenty of good Greek restaurants with authentic Gyros here on Long Island. Ironically though, the best Philly Cheese Steak I've ever had was in a small Greek restaurant near the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Yeah, but too bad all the good greek diners have become banks. 
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Perhaps the most mispronounced food item in the U.S. I never actually heard it mispronounced until I moved out here to Ohio. I mean, I had heard that people do that, but hadn't actually witnessed it until I was out here. (And it's not like I never went out for gyros.) |
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Yeah, but too bad all the good greek diners have become banks.<img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle> Quoted:
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Plenty of good Greek restaurants with authentic Gyros here on Long Island. Ironically though, the best Philly Cheese Steak I've ever had was in a small Greek restaurant near the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Yeah, but too bad all the good greek diners have become banks.<img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle> Try the Mediterranean Snack Bar in downtown Huntington. I think the Spartan in Farmingdale is out of business though. I went to HS with a girl whose father owned that place. |
| The Mad Greek in Baker, CA has the best Gyro. Drove by it many times and thought the "world's best gyro" sign was a BS gimmick to get you to stop. Guy at work told me they actually were good so I stopped once and they were damn good. Also great Strawberry shakes. |
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Perhaps the most mispronounced food item in the U.S. We had an excellent Greek place here. Little, fat greaseball of a man who could cook like you wouldn't believe. Best spanakopita, baklava, gyro, potato pancake, ever. I asked him one day about the proper pronunciation of gyro. He says, you can call it jee ro, gy ro, jhee ro. You give me five dollars and I give you good sandwich. 
But, not. Not too many good greek places out in the country. Or any ethnic food, really. Around here, if you're not in the Dayton/Cinci trough, you're in the sticks, more or less. And you get home cooked country food at mom and pops or fast food...some small towns have decent pizza joints and Americanized Chinese take out. 
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Perhaps the most mispronounced food item in the U.S. Geero? The old guy I mentioned explained that it's a greek letter/sound that Americans don't have. It's a soft g (like you're making the dog growl sound) with a y included. gggyee ro. |
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We had an excellent Greek place here. Little, fat greaseball of a man who could cook like you wouldn't believe. Best spanakopita, baklava, gyro, potato pancake, ever. I asked him one day about the proper pronunciation of gyro. He says, you can call it jee ro, gy ro, jhee ro. You give me five dollars and I give you good sandwich. <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> But, not. Not too many good greek places out in the country. Or any ethnic food, really. Around here, if you're not in the Dayton/Cinci trough, you're in the sticks, more or less. And you get home cooked country food at mom and pops or fast food...some small towns have decent pizza joints and Americanized Chinese take out. <img src=http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_abused.gif border=0 align=middle> Thanks. |
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We have a place in Greenville, SC that sells Gyro off of a rotisserie. They also sell shawarma.
http://www.pitahousesc.com/ The food is good, but about everytime I go I see libtards, beta-cucks, and hipsters. |
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I have always heard it pronounced as such and being the deep thinker I am; I figured out it was a marketing name based on the vertical rotisseries the meat was prepared on. |
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If you're ever in Bowling Green Ohio, there's a little shop there called South Side Six that has amazing gyros.
http://southside6.com/gyro-challenge 
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