[Sca-cooks] RE: Gyro? Hero?

[Michael Gunter]

This is from Baroness Alys, the original poster
for this question.

Gunthar

I found this on line:

    Hero

To a New Yorker, a hero isn't a guy who rescues children
from burning buildings or jumps on a grenade to save his
comrades in arms. No, a hero is a really big sandwich. This
term for a sandwich, called in other parts of the country a
submarine, a grinder, a poor boy, or a hoagie, dates to 1955.
It's origin is a bit of mystery with two theories contending
for the honors.
The first is that a hero is so big, it takes a heroic effort
to eat it. The other is that it comes from gyro, a type
of Greek sandwich. Gyro, is pronounced "hero" not like the
first two syllables of gyroscope, and upon finding itself
in America became hero through the process of folk etymology.
"Word and Phrase Origins" are copyrighted by David Wilton
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