gyros
Sign in to saveGyros, sometimes anglicized as a gyro (; , ), is meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced and served wrapped or stuffed in pita bread, along with other ingredients such as tomato, onion, fried potatoes, and tzatziki. In Greece and Cyprus, it is normally made with pork or sometimes with chicken, whilst ground beef and lamb are sometimes used in other countries.
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- Gyros
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- 235px
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- Gyros in Greece, with meat, onions, tomato, lettuce, fried potatoes, and tzatziki rolled in a pita
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- Gyro
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- Greece
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- Main course
- Food.type
- Meat wrap
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- Hot
- Food.main_ingredient
- Pita bread, pork, fried potatoes, lettuce, tomato, onions, tzatziki or yogurt
- Food.variations
- Chicken, ground beef, or lamb instead of pork
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Gyros, sometimes anglicized as a gyro (; , ), is meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced and served wrapped or stuffed in pita bread, along with other ingredients such as tomato, onion, fried potatoes, and tzatziki. In Greece and Cyprus, it is normally made with pork or sometimes with chicken, whilst ground beef and lamb are sometimes used in other countries.
==Name== The name comes from the Greek (, or ). It is a calque of the Turkish , from , also meaning . The name döner was formerly used Greece, spelled ντονέρ. The word ντονέρ was criticized in Greece for being Turkish, and the word 'gyros' proposed to replace it. The word gyro or gyros was already in use in American English by at least 1970, and along with in Greek, came to replace doner kebab for the Greek version of the dish. Some Greek restaurants in the US continued to use both doner kebab and gyros to refer to the same dish in the 1970s.