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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: Pizza Toppings
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.194857.7906@eff.org>
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- References: <9212280024.AA00368@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> <1992Dec28.150033.4818@eff.org> <BzzFDv.LK7@demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:48:57 GMT
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- In article <BzzFDv.LK7@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >:>I think I suggested a couple of years back that Hero was the New
- >:>Amsterdammer pronunciation of Gyro, but everyone disagreed, telling me
- >:>that Hero sandwiches were nothing like Gyro sandwiches.
- >:
- >: They may be the same thing in Amsterdam, but they aren't here.
- >:A Hero is submarine sandwich/grinder. A Gyro is the Greek lamb-burger
- >:thing. I don't know what they eat over there.
- >
- >New Amsterdam, NY.
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- Oh, well, they ain't the same thing, then.
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