A Greek dish of meat (usually chicken, pork, or lamb) cooked on a rotating vertical spit and served in pita bread with vegetables and sauce.
From Greek 'gyro' (turn, rotation), named for the rotating spit on which the meat cooks. The modern Greek dish became internationally popular in the 1970s.
Gyros became worldwide street food because the vertical spit design was brilliant—meat cooks by its own gravity while the outside chars, creating a texture that's crispy outside and juicy inside.
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