[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Olwen the Odd]

Where I buy gyro is a small Greek place and he pronouces it ghee-rou with
all the spitty noises.

At this end of the earth they seldom use Hero or Po'Boy they use the term
sub(marine) or hoagie.  I think up north they call them grinders still don't
they?
Olwen
>
>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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