It’s a wrap! Gyros crowned the world’s best

Gyros has been ranked the fig 1 champion wrap worldwide.

Online nutrient travel usher TasteAtlas has rated the Greek street nutrient fig 1 successful their top 20 champion wraps October ranking with a 4.5-star rating.

While Gyros is listed fig 1 connected the social media post, the TasteAtlas ιστότοπος has it astatine fig two down Lebanon’s Shawarma.

Gyros is 1 of Greece’s astir beloved street foods — a savoury crockery made from slices of seasoned meat, traditionally pork oregon chickenhearted successful Greece (and often lamb oregon veal elsewhere), cooked connected a vertical rotating spit.

The tender nutrient is shaved into thin pieces and served successful warm pita bread, typically with tzatziki, sometimes chips and caller vegetables similar tomato, onion, lettuce, and cucumber (depending where you get it).

The word gyros comes from the Greek gheereezo, meaning “to turn,” a motion to the perpetually rotating spit.

Some trace its origins backmost to the clip of Alexander the Great, when soldiers were said to person roasted nutrient connected their swords implicit unfastened fires.

Another theory points to the aboriginal 20th century, when Greek refugees from Constantinople and Smyrna brought the crockery with them successful 1922.

Many opened small nutrient shops where gyros became a section favourite.

Following World War II, gyros spread acold beyond Greece’s borders — taking clasp crossed Europe, Australia, and the United States — and today it remains 1 of the world’s astir fashionable and recognisable street foods.