Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!bbncca!krossen From: krossen@bbncca.ARPA (Ken Rossen) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: What's it called? Message-ID: <1605@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 15:36:43 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1605 Posted: Mon Nov 11 15:36:43 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:53:50 EST References: <1250@decwrl.UUCP> <324@watnum.UUCP> Reply-To: krossen@bbnccp.arpa (Ken Rossen) Organization: ALEWIFE -- The only T station named for a fish. Lines: 11 I've always understood authentic gyros to be fresh grilled pita bread wrapped around slices of spicy lamb (usually beef, too) with onions, tomatoes and a yogurt sauce (sometimes the yogurt-cucumber sauce ... what's that called, sageki?). If you are Greek and know better, please correct me. I don't understand, however, what the difference is between gyros and the identical sandwich I thrived on in teenage years, souvlaki. What IS the difference between gyros and souvlaki? -- Ken Rossen ...!{decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,harvard,seismo}!bbncca!krossen --- or --- krossen@bbnccp.arpa