What makes Gyros Greece’s Most Popular Street Food

Gyros is a stack of pork or chicken grilled on a rotisserie spit, sliced off and served in fluffy pita bread with toppings and sauce. We discuss why it's one of the most popular types of souvlaki, grilled meat street food, in Greece. We discuss how to eat gyros, why it's an important part of Greek culture, what makes truly good gyros, when to eat it, its history and the great potato-tzatziki debate.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:30 The concept of Souvlaki
02:18 How Gyros is made
03:54 When to eat Gyros
04:34 The history of Gyros
05:08 The ingredients
05:51 The Tzatziki-Fries-debate
06:56 Outro

CREDITS
Report: Sarah Hucal
Camera: Marco Borowski
Edit: Philipp Czegka
Supervisind editors: Ruben Kalus/Mirja Viehweger

#gyros #souvlaki #greece
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[MrFiask]

Greek gyros
Turkish döner
arab shawarma
mexican burrito
All are so freaking delicious

[Camilo]

Went i went to greece i found no bad food, everything was delicious, from a cart on the street to any restaurant

[Ca_s]

I visited Greece a few years ago and I confirm that they have a very rich cuisine! 🖐🏼💙🇬🇷

[Johnny.africa]

I had "gyros" first when I lived in nyc but whatever they're putting there is total trash and I thought it was average at best. But gyros in Greece is on another level. The way it should be done and one of the best street foods out there

[buuhan]

It's so popular here in Germany that in my town almost 80% of restaurants are Greek.

[josefc.]

Greece is a great country with good people

[zaxlee]

Gyros is so big in Greece, i just stumbled upon this youtube video while eating gyros lol!

For the first timers, When you order a gyro, you say i want 1)a pita with 2)type of meat( pork or chicken gyro, or pork/chicken skewer or beef patty or sausage) and 3) toppings (tzatziki or mustard sause, tomatos, onions etc).

The standard version is:
For pork meat: tzatziki sause, tomatos, onions and fries (if it is a traditional place they may not add fries and you may need to say you want them as extra topping)
For chicken meat: mustard sause, tomato, lettuce and fries (same rule about fries)

So now you know you can either say for example I want a pita with pork gyro and with everything (standard version) or you customise it.

[UnCoolDad]

Gyros styles vary from region to region, city to city. The size, sauces, condiments, and spicing can vary greatly. Up north in Thessaloniki they put ketchup and mustard! Heathens 😂

[michaelogden]

I'm a native Texan, but the gyros I've had (with tzatziki) at Greek restaurants have been among my very favorite foods. I could be mistaken, but I thought the gyros I've had were made of lamb.

[ΜάρκοςΣταμούλης]

In Thessaloniki, when you said "Apo ola", there is meat gyro, onions, tomato, french fries, ketchup and mustard

[nerosore]

Juicy seasoned meat with tzatziki and garlic, fresh pita and vegetables. That's just simple and perfect recepie for a gyro!

[KCSiX]

What made gyros the most popular food, apart from the taste, was the low price as well. But now the prices almost doubled making it sometimes more expensive than a burger.

[gstrdms]

The whole "1st person" narrative is so awkward and weird.

[fotidim]

In Thessaloniki, pita-gyros is double size and with bigger variety of sauces. Tzatziki is not standard, my recommendation is to ask for paprika (pepper sauce, slightly spicy). Fries also come by default.

[freddozilla]

The beauty of Gyros is that you will not have the same in all of Greece - for example, let's say you get a Gyros with chicken. In some restaurants in Athens, they will give you tzatziki sauce and in some others, "pink" sauce (mustard and ketchup). In Thessaloniki, they can even put ketchup! In Corfu, its common to put their "special" red sauce.

[mikeymike]

I like gyros better than turkish donner as the donner so greasy

[supremachine]

With all due respect, Gyros belongs to the streets, just the streets.

[MIKRASIATISSA]

Tzatziki feels wrong, but not gonna lie pita is a brilliant choice for it. We do it wrong in Turkiye with lavash.
Greece feels like home <3 (not tryna invade i promise lol)

[rickbhattacharya]

No question just gib.

Better than Döner TBH, anything Chicken or pork is good.

[fbksfrank]

Souvlaki is the name of the place in Fairbanks, Alaska! more than thirty years, best cucumber sauce ever.