What is gyro meat

One may wonder 'What is gyro'? What is Greek cuisine has the answer!
Gyro is the dish that consists of pork pieces from different parts of the animal. Is actually delicious meat from the neck of the pig. Is called gyro because the meat is cooked in a vertical threaded metal spit that spins around its axis, with fire on one side. Gyro is made with minced meat - like the famous kebab - meat and chicken. It's served wrapped in pita bread (unleavened bread), as well as serving. Served with various salads - tzatziki sauce - tomato, onion and fries. Today in Greece Gyro with minced meat is banned by Market Police because of the health violations that occurred .
The Arabian food shawarma and Mexican tacos al pastor are all similar to Gyro, and all derived from the Turkish Donner Kebab created in Bursa in the 19th century. The doner kebab is lamb or beef or chicken, but prevailed in Greece variation with pork, because Christians can consume this meat.
In Arabic, Emirates instead tzatziki sauce Sauce, Gyro is served with chopped pistachios, and even today in Crete they use yogurt.
Small shops that opened the 1922-1923 refugees from Smyrna and Constantinople after the war spread to every corner of Greece. On suitcases were refugees and recipes round, who traveled with them to the Americas and Australia.
Today, large companies focus such as Goody's, Everest (Constantinople) and McDonald's offer some variations of Gyro on their menu. In Germany and France the Donner is years favorite fast food, while pork Gyro is a well known Greek food.

Gyro is one of the most important dishes that aims to test the tourist during his visit to Greece, along with the moussaka and souvlaki.

A very usefull website that has unique HOME MADE recipes is What is Gyro.