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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: zappaisgod]
#22217236 - 09/10/15 02:52 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: I'm near NYC. Almost all the diners here are run by Greeks. The Gyros are made with this wonderful mystery meat that is cooked on a vertical spit and hand carved in thin slices. They are served on pita bread with the sauce lettuce and tomatoes.
The taco trucks and Mexican restaurants are definitely different. The taco trucks cater to all the Hispanic workers and the restaurants cater to Americans. You do not see many Americans at the taco trucks and you do not see many Hispanics, except for the workers, in the Mexican restaurants.
Felafels are also great. When I was in college there was this tiny take out restaurant called Faddoul's Felafels. It was owned by this Lebanese family that sent wave upon wave of of wrestlers to go to UB. UB had a pretty good wrestling team and the Faddouls were basically the Lebanese Olympic team.
There are plenty of sit down nice Mexican restaurants here in So Cal that cater to a mostly Mexican clientele, but there is a much larger hispanic middle class here compared to most places in the US.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22217312 - 09/10/15 03:12 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh I'm sure SoCal is different from NYC metro area
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: zappaisgod]
#22217553 - 09/10/15 04:17 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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You are making me hungry for souvlaki...with dill sour cream and cucumbers ....yum!
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: Thayendanegea]
#22217561 - 09/10/15 04:19 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I want Julia Child's mousakka, which isn't exactly Greek but I took it to a gathering once and people peed themselves.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: zappaisgod]
#22217754 - 09/10/15 05:10 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gyros are the shit. Much more worthy of the praise tacos seem to be getting lately. Like tacos are the new bacon. I can't stand when people overexagerate their love for tacos. Like could you try and sound any more trendy?
Gyros are the shit though, i could eat them all fucking day.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#22217762 - 09/10/15 05:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was into tacos before it was cool to be into tacos. Still haven't ever tried one of those Korean tacos that are all the rage with the foodies tho
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22217778 - 09/10/15 05:16 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Taco's are fucking delicious, homemade tacos are so easy and good.
I love greek food too but some well made tacos are so fucking good. With some bomb hot sauce and salsa
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: musiclover420]
#22218144 - 09/10/15 06:40 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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This thread is confusing idk what u guys are even talking about even ne more a taco is like a folded up pizza neway
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#22218146 - 09/10/15 06:41 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22218162 - 09/10/15 06:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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all food is basically diff styles of pizza. Dont you even no anything bout cookin
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
#22218181 - 09/10/15 06:49 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22218528 - 09/10/15 08:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Even when they use pita here in the US, I haven't had 1 that rivals a Greece-made gyro. Those are just so damn good.
and please nobody talk shit about tacos. Tacos are better than pizza, IMHO
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#22218538 - 09/10/15 08:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I have never seen a Gyro not on Pita 
"Better than" Is silly, some pizza can be so amn good when made right. Just like with tacos.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
#22218598 - 09/10/15 08:24 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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CHeifM4sterDiezL said: This thread is confusing idk what u guys are even talking about even ne more a taco is like a folded up pizza neway
lol. A friend of mine used to refer to guinea pigs as "flash rats" and pizza as "flash cheese on toast".
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: musiclover420]
#22218981 - 09/10/15 09:44 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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musiclover420 said: I have never seen a Gyro not on Pita 
"Better than" Is silly, some pizza can be so amn good when made right. Just like with tacos.
All of the sub shops sell them on tortilla wraps around here.
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#22219010 - 09/10/15 09:49 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's fucked up
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: nicechrisman]
#22219175 - 09/10/15 10:33 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I love chicken 'eeyros.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#22220338 - 09/11/15 06:24 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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musiclover420 said: I have never seen a Gyro not on Pita 
"Better than" Is silly, some pizza can be so amn good when made right. Just like with tacos.
All of the sub shops sell them on tortilla wraps around here.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: Giftofdeprivation]
#22220366 - 09/11/15 06:32 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Giftofdeprivation said: humus and baba ganoush are my favorites. All Greek foods are extremely easy to make too. Food's been around when Socrates was still in his cave, gawking at shadows.
You are aware that neither of the foods (or at least the names you call them by) are Greek, are you? Humus and baba ganoush originate on the other side of the Mediterranean.
Also, as I'm in full on anal mode anyway: I often read about Americans calling a Flatbread filled with meat "a gyros". As I understand it (and as it's offered here in restaurants) gyros is the meat (I think it's officially lamb) roasted in the form of a large tube on a skewer like shoarma and then shaved off into small strips. The meat itself is the gyros. If you order gyros here in a restaurant, you just get the meat with no bread.
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Re: Do any of you guys like those Greek wraps called gyros? [Re: koraks]
#22220434 - 09/11/15 06:57 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Gyros just means rotating. It technically refers to the meat, but in essence doner, gyros and shawarma are the same thing prepared in slightly different ways. I personally think the Lebonese do it best. As far as the who invented humus shit goes, that has been politicised to a ridiculous degree but since chick peas were first domesticated in Turkey it stands to reason that the first person who decided to mush them up was in that region and not somewhere else.
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