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Gyros, döner kebabs, and image usage[edit]
This looks very strongly like a Döner Kebab and NOT Gyros ... the meat is minced, whereas gyros is from pork pieces.
...And it is used on many sites. Can this image be replaced with a proper one by someone please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.227.177.142 (talk • contribs) 14:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
- For the most part, if you disagree with the use of an image on a particular site, you need to change the image used on that site rather than try to change the picture here on Wikimedia Commons.
As to whether the this photo is a good photo of gyros, I'd say that it is representative of the majority of gyro sandwiches that I've seen here in the United States. The meat for most gyros of this type in the U.S. is an 80/20 mixture of ground beef & lamb, filler, and spices.[1] These meat cones are not produced on site, but instead come from a handful of producers in the Chicago area. The pitas on which the sandwiches are served are so similar from one place to the next that I believe that they too are baked in a handful of bakeries.
Döner kebabs are seldom found in the States. I suspect that few Americans would recognize the name. With the few I've seen Stateside, the meat on the vertical rotisserie is formed from stacked slabs (such as with this photo) rather than a ground (minced) meat cone. Where the meat is served in a sandwich rather than on a bed of rice, the Turkish-style pides are different than the commercially available pitas used for gyros.
What forms they take in Greece and Turkey, and how these sandwiches vary across the wider world, I don't know. — VulcanOfWalden (talk) 04:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
