and ummmm....WTF is a "gyro"?

A few days ago I ended a post with there are no GYROS in Whichita. I now have to answer a question I thought I would never ever have to answer. "and ummmm....WTF is a "gyro"?...... A gyro is a little piece of Greek heaven. It consists of the Gyro meat which is a combonation of lamb and beef. It is usually found in a 60 pound wheel and slowly cooked for days on a roaster that spins round and round. The meat is shaved and placed on a warmed pita bread. Then covered with fresh tomatos and onions and somthered with taziki sauce (a garlic cukecumber yogurt blend).

Heres another definitiuon....Gyro (yee-roh) - A Greek sandwich specialty. A proper Greek gyro is made with meat cut off a big cylinder of well-seasoned lamb or lamb and beef. This meat is on a slowly rotating vertical spit the name gyro, implying the circular spinning motion of a gyroscope). The sandwich maker slices off strips of the warm meat when the sandwich is ordered; heats pita bread on a griddle or grill, and then serves the meat on the bread, topped with the sauce, and usually garnished with lettuce and tomato.

Gyro is probably the most often mispronounced food name. Even its fans usually do not get the pronounced correctly - whether it is mispronounced as "jee-rohs," "jai-rohs," "gee-rohs," The correct Greek pronunciation is “yee-rohs.”

Ok I have eaten alot of drunken midnight Gyros in my life time but lettuce??? I have never and I mean NEVER seen lettuce on a Gyro. Even in greek town. So my dearest Scarlett I hope this answers your question on what a Gyro is. If you have a chance to have one and I mean a good one it will always be part of your late night food habbits.