Interesting to see fried chicken mentioned in that thread. I wonder what the British take on it is. I should have gotten some while I was in London. Of course, I also should have avoided that kidney infection, but them's the breaks.

I must be so unsophisticated, I actually enjoy a kebab whilst sober.

I'm glad you owned up, in fact since this subject started I've had an uncontrollable urge to go up to the town centre for one! I've not had one for months, possibly a year or more - trouble is, they tend not to open at lunchtime.

Second to which, the girls in the office were talking about maltloaf, something which I haven't had for years, but will be getting this weekend! More to the point, they were talking about picking the sultanas out and leaving the loaf for slimming purposes - weird and sacriligious.

Anyway, Indian buffet day today, a variety stretching all the way up one side of the restaurant - and all for £4.99 (Plus the Cobra to wash it down with).

And, on the way back I'll buy my kippers in the market for weekend breakfast. Manx kippers, they're not the red, but grey, but taste much better.

I'm just a slave to my tastebuds.

Bitt, I don't think I've had fried chicken in my life, I think of KFC, and more positively, the Blues Brothers!

Come to think of it, I'm not a great chicken fan all round! But there's plenty of it around, fried and otherwise, in this Country.

You've obviously never had the misfortune to spend any time at Weston-super-mud then.

Not to be outdone by those Greeks, the USA apparently has 14 pronunciations.

Been an uneducated Brit, whose previous experience with the word was limited to describing part of a helicopter, I used to pronounce it GaIro. My wife corrected that to dZaIro, but since her upbringing was somewhat cosmopolitan, what does she know?

http://linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-1641.html gives the Boston pronunciation as yiro.

Technically, "gyros" is the singular, so you should always pronounce the "s", but that would probably end up being more confusing in the real world than any of the fifteen thousand ways to pronounce the beginning of the word. I usually just stick with "hee-ro" or maybe "yee-ro".

I just ask for a #2 plate, and don't worry about the pronunciation.

Cheeborger! Cheeborger!