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