[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

At least this part of the north, which I suppose is more properly the
Midwest/Northern Plains, the local pizza chain calls them hoagies, and
everybody else, possibly from exposure to various national chains of
submarine sandwich establishments, calls them subs. [gasp]

Here, btw, is MN. Which is a weird state anyway, being that pretty much
every restaurant around has walleye on the menu.

Margaret FitzWilliam


On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> 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