Talk:gyro

I don't know the usage in English, but actually – to my best knowledge – gyro or gyros is the meat, which is cut from the roasting spit. The sandwich is a gyros pita. Gyro is also often served on a plate, isn't it? In German, we also often call the sandwich Gyros, but most people are aware that more correctly it's actually just the meat. I'm surprised that the English entry gives only the sandwich meaning.Kolmiel (talk) 00:11, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Hmm.. other dictionaries are divided on this; Merriam-Webster defines "gyro" as "a sandwich...", Dictionary.com defines it as "meat... usually served in a sandwich"; notably, none of the dictionaries includes both senses at the same time. In use, the "sandwich" sense does seem to be considerably more common than the "meat" sense: I ran the phrase google books:"filled with gyo" through Google Books in an effort to find uses like "sandwiches filled with gyro" (where "gyro" would have to be taken to mean "meat"), but in fact the only two relevant hits are books that speak of things being "filled with gyro meat", i.e. the sort of meat that is found in gyros = Greek sandwiches! And all the books that speak of google books:"eating a gyro" or google books:"two gyros" Greek are speaking of sandwiches, not meat. I did manage to find one book (by a Greek author) that uses "gyro" to mean "meat": Citations:gyro. - -sche (discuss) 01:08, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

the wikipedia article calls it a meat. it might be hard to find published works that refer to gyro as meat if the sense is more commonly used on menus to distinguish it from other sandwiches with different proteins.

the word is probably used for both senses (though tbh i've only heard it to refer to the meat) SheepTester (talk) 09:09, 22 March 2024 (UTC)