[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

The Armenians who ran the deli next door to a place I worked at in a
former life pronounced it "jy-roh".

It's very hard to concentrate on ISP problems when next door is baking
baklava at 8 am.

Margaret FitzWilliam, being difficult

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Michael Gunter wrote:

> I just got an email from my compatriot
> in the kitchen, Baroness Alys, who
> had a random thought. She realized that
> a gyro is pronounced "Yee-roh". She
> also knows that a submarine sandwich
> is referred to as a "hero" in that
> area.
>
> She feels, and with a good argument,
> that it may be named be that a long
> sandwich with meats as a "Yee-roh"
> and then Americanized to "Hero".
>
> Or it could simply be coincidence and
> the sandwich was so named because it
> was of "heroic" proportions.
>
> Yeah, I'm ready to go home from work
> today.
>
> Gunthar