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Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

My girlfriend asked me a question last night. One that had vexed me in the past. I could probably find the answer myself, but the result won't be nearly as entertaining if I ask you to find it for me!

When buying a kebab - and by this I mean the kebab that is meat and salad wrapped in a pita-bread like thing - the meat is on one huge vertical rotating thing, from which they carve the lamb/chicken/beef.

How do they make these huge meat-polls?!? Are they pure meat or some weird meat hybrid.

I'm really curious about their tasty greek goodness!

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Sorry to upstage Kayla, but I am very bored. Also, I used to work at a Greek place that had gyros. I think this is the same thing you call a "kebab" (probably a regional thing.) The meat was beef and lamb, which I think most commercial places use, formed into big truncated cones and mounted on vertical rotisseries. A lot of recipes for home use specify 100%lamb, but that's expensive. Anyway, your basic gyro is meat trimmed from the cone so that it's cripsy on one side, some salad stuff, and tatziki sauce (cucumbers, spices and yogurt, according to the food reveiwer below) topped onto pita bread and rolled up. Is that the same as a kebab?
This food wholesaler has 80% beef and 20% lamb gyro cones, and has flat forms and chicken too.

A gyro link

Another link to a gyro-worshipping food reviewer. The reviewer is quite right that freshness is key to a great gyro, especially for the tatziki sauce.

That Greek place I worked at had pretty good gyros, but what I loved was their fresh,made-from-scratch baklava.MMmmmmm I really made a pig of myself with that baklava.

[ August 25, 2003, 09:59 PM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

I love bakalava, but the Mad Greek at the local mall used to make me gag. I hated that entire end of the mall because of the smell of the Gyros. :vomit smilie:

Posted by dannyXcore (Member # 5332) on :

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:vomit smilie:

I would use that to it's FULL potential....

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

I can't stand bakalava.

But I know how to make it. [Smile]

Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :

I love it! My mom makes it so nicely. It's delicious.

I Had some kebabs on a brief trip to Morocco in 2001. The meat was tainted or something, but at the times it was delicious. However, I was sick for days.

Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :

Thanks guys! I recently found the best kebab place I've ever eaten at. Time for lunch!

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Interesting. To me a kebab is stuff (usually meat and/or veggies) cooked on a skewer or similar stick.

The shaved meat in a pita is schwarma -- YUM! There's some good schwarma available in L.A., but the best is sold in Israel. :salivating smilie:

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

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To me a kebab is stuff (usually meat and/or veggies) cooked on a skewer or similar stick.

I always thought so too... I guess there are many different names for things...

Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :

Mmm... gyros... ::drools::

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:vomit smilie:

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You know, we have one of these over at the sakeriver.com forum.
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Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

kabob

n : cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables

Also known as Shish Kabobs. [Smile]

(Actually, it is also kebab and shish kebab. Either one. I have no idea why they call gyros kebabs in Austalia. Silly Aussies. [Wink]

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[ August 26, 2003, 02:58 PM: Message edited by: Kayla ]

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Wait- is it Kebabs or Kebobs???

(stick with meat and vegetables)

[Confused]

Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :

stick with meat and vegetables works for me.

Posted by Zalmoxis (Member # 2327) on :

Best gyro ever:

chicken, long, thin dill pickle spears, yogurt dill sauce, and warm, soft french fries wrapped in a thin but not as thin as a tortilla pita.

Place: Springtime, Bucharest, Romania

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

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stick with meat and vegetables works for me

I'm beginning to think the same way... only it doesn't have the same ring to it...

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

Stick with meat and vegetables is known as kebab or kabob. Either one is acceptable. And where I grew up, it was shish kabob.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I love middle eastern food. I think in the afterlife, if I can rig it, I'd like to be able to subsist on nothing but lamb.