[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Elaine Koogler]

Actually, you know...that's something I wondered about.  I had heard of
heroes, but all of the stores around here that sell that particular type
of sandwich call them "gyros", pronounced "ji-ro" (long I, long O).  And
I thought it was a little strange, but, you know.....  and now I know!
The ever-educational Cooks' List fulfills its mission once again!!!!

Kiri

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
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