And what about Gyros Pita?

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  2. TBH I had no idea what that was until I googled it and the only thing that popped into my mind is a “Donner Kebab” as in “The Donner Party” and I was like “well thats fucked up….”.

  3. I guess if you want to get technical, but no reasonable human is going to say “I’m going to make a sandwich” and then make a gyro.

  4. I’ll be honest, Doner Kebab is not very common in the US, but googling it: yes it’s a sandwich.

    And yes for Gyros.

  5. I’ve never actually had doner kebab but I know it’s similar to a Greek gyro.

    Personally, I just consider a gyro a gyro. It has all the properties of a wrap but nobody would ever order a wrap and expect to get a gyro and vice versa.

  7. It is in the sandwich family, but would not be called a sandwich.

    At best it would be a wrap, but really it is it’s own thing.

    In a place that has that type of food they may call their options:
    Pita
    Bowl
    Salad

    You would not see it referenced as a “sandwich”

  8. No. Its its own thing.

    If a restaurant has it on their menu, it will be listed among the sandwiches though. Same with gyros.

  9. I would consider the German-style doner kebab to be more of a wrap than a sandwich.

    Gyros are also wraps to me.

  10. By this informative guide I’d call it them tacos.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2267988-is-a-hot-dog-a-sandwich

    But really I would consider it a wrap since you wrapped it in bread, I guess. For some reason we don’t make that distinction with tacos though, so I might just call it doner kebab or gyro and not really focus on if it’s a sandwich or whatever.

    We don’t really have doner kebab here but we have tacos and gyros and generally we just call them by name. Not everything needs to be categorized.

  11. Yes, the döner kebab I am familiar with would be a sandwich. I would think of a gyro on pita as more of a wrap rather than a sandwich, though.

  13. It take things very simply: If it’s held together by bread, it’s a sandwich.

  14. As uncommon as döner is in the US, most folks here will probably be googling it. The few places it is served in the US is usually in what’s regarded as a wrap, not in a small döner box, or döner teller (plate) as is seen in Germany.

    I’m of the opinion that döner kebap is it’s own thing, having been exposed to it in Germany for years. If I’m in a real hurry, I’ll order a small döner box mit pommes (fries) for eating on the go, no bread/wrap.

    The local döner joint that I usually went to had some fantastic Turkish baked pide (in a form that Americans might regard as a flatbread) with cheese, veggies and strips of döner on top of it, god that was good.

    And I’d call gyros “wraps”.

    EDIT: In retrospect, it may seem rather arbitrary to mention Germany in my post, but seeing döner stands in Germany is quite common, plus the OP has a Germany flair.

  15. If you order a Dönor Kebab in Germany, you get a sandwich. If you want a wrap, you order a Dürüm. However, in the US Doner often conflated with a Gyro (Gyros Pita), so you frequently get it served as a wrap.

  16. I’m on the Döner is a sandwich train. It’s meat, veggies, and sauce encased in bread. It has all the components. If you sever the back end so that two pieces of bread hold it, there’s no question.

  17. I haven’t had one, but I’d like to. As such, I don’t know if it’s a sandwich or a flatbread, but I’m eager to find out.

  18. I’ve never had doner, don’t know if I’ve ever seen it in the US, and hate the “is it a sandwich” argument.

  23. no, but my kebab guy calls it one (to differentiate it from a yufka, I guess)

  24. When I Google doner kebab the first image Google shows me is what I would consider a taco.

    Gyros are typically wrapped in pita. If food is stuffed inside of a pita I’d consider that a taco.

    A sandwich requires two separate pieces to f something to hold all the internal ingredients.

  25. Unfortunately, Doner isn’t really a thing here. You can only find great Berlin-style doner in a handful of places, in only a handful of cities like NYC.

    It’s truly something I miss about Germany. The doners I had over there is some of the best drunk food on the planet.

    No, no. We have its faithful and loving cousins instead: shawarma and gyro.

    Anyways, sandwiches require bread. So the question entirely depends on the construction of the doner. I’ve had doner wraps, and doner in a pita.

    A wrap is not bread by definition. Bread needs to be leavened. A wrap is unleavened.

    So gyro pita? That’s a sandwich. Durum? Wrap.

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