[Sca-cooks] Chocolate yogurt

Avraham haRofeh goldberg at bestweb.net
Mon Apr 29 16:14:39 PDT 2002


> >My standard local grocery store sells a "pocketless pita" which is a good
> >approximation. You can (at least in America) get "beef gyros".
>
> Are these in fact gyros, which would be the equivalent of shwarma or
> even the more common lamb meatloaf stuff cooked on a vertical
> rotisserie, or are you talking about souvlaki? I ask because some
> people consider them interchangable. I've never seen or heard of beef
> gyros (unless you count those odd little frozen flat sausage-y things
> you can sometimes get in diners and coffee shops, and sold as gyros),
> but I've seen souvlaki made with chicken, pork, veal, lamb, and beef.

I do know the difference, Master A. <grin> Souvlaki is made with
shish-kebab/stew size cubes of meat. No, I mean the
sliced-off-the-vertical-rotisserie kind. I know I've seen places that had
two side-by-side, one bearing lamb, the other beef. Where? I wish I could
remember.

Avraham

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