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Pieces of spiced pork meat are stacked on each other on a spit. The meat mountain is slowly grilled on a vertical rotisserie, then sliced into paper-thin bites. This is Gyros, the Greek delicacy served wrapped in pita bread together with tomatoes, onions and tzatziki sauce. But Gyros has competitors: …

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Greek delicacy “gyros” is among the top food items Brits struggle to pronounce when they are abroad.Embarrassed about wrong pronunciation, Brit would also not order the specific food, a study found. According to a study of 1,000 UK adults by travel company the Bolsover Cruise Club, one in ten Brits …

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The Association of Greek Meat Processing Industries (SEVEK) is taking steps to have the famous Gyros to be recognized with the European Union as a product with Protected Geographic Indication like Greek Feta and Greek Yogurt. Gyros is the Greek delicacy where pieces of spicy meat are placed on a …

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Kebab and Gyros narrowly escaped the “death sentence”  in European Parliament earlier on Wednesday, when MEPs  were called to vote thumb up or thump down to a proposed ban on phosphate, an additive substance that can be of health risk for human consumption. According to Deutsche Welle, the vote needed an …

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Hardly had the news that the European Union will ban Kebab and Gyros for food safety reasons, the hashtag #Free_Gryos became trendy in Greek Twitter where hundreds of Greeks added their own tzatziki sauce on the upcaming real or fake news ban. Εχουν βάλει συντηρητικά παντού, μολύνουν το περιβάλλον, βομβαρδίζουν …

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