when you would ask for extra zatsiki (the cucumber sauce), the counter guy would shout out to the cook in the back, "One Gyro on a pita, EXTRA JIZZ!" 

I've never eaten one before that wasn't cut right off the slab of rotating meat.  So it being done any other way, is news to me.  We do things right in chicago. 

 

There are only a couple places here that sell them and they sell so few that they have to go with prepackaged meet and heat it up. It just doesn't taste the same. Which is why I was so happy to see that pressed meat and meat byproducts spining away.

 

My favorite gyros place was with Athens Gyros (now closed) in Lakehurst Mall or in Harlem Irving Plaza there was a little place (Coney Dogs?) where the guy couldn't count change and would always try to take an extra .25 cents or so.

I had some killer falafel last night for dinner.

 

What the heck are those?

 

Gyro's nearly killed me. It was the summer we were moving out of our house, so we were showing our house almost everyday. I got into a gyro kick. Turns out that when you live on gyros as much as I was, you gain weight REAL easy. Who woulda thunk it?

 

I laid off the puppies for about a two year period, and had one again only about 6 months ago. It's like going home. Nicely browned pita, a little well done meat so there are some crispy pieces...man...tasty.

 

Never tried one with feta, but I bet it would rule the world and I would start on my path to tubbyville all over again.

A true gyro has feta on it.

 

Falafel is a fried ball of fava beans and/or chickpeas. Usually served in a salad with tahini, hummus or tsatsiki sauce, salad, spices and chilis.

 

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