Jimmies! Because they're sprinkles!
Just for the sake of education Gyro is pronounce Your'os . The G is silent and you roll the "r". Ji-row does not cut it. If we can learn to say escargot instead of snail it seems like this should not be difficult. I was taught that by a Greek immigrant that opened a sandwich shop that had the natural Gyro from Greece. The meat seasoning and the sauce is awesome. I did find one place over the past 45 years that made them very much like his, but the meat didn't have the right seasoning. Close, but no cigar.Gyro. As in the Greek pita sandwich.
Drives me nuts.
Definitely jimmies!Jimmies! Because they're sprinkles!
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It is not pronounced like compare, and for some reason I keep hearing it pronounced that way on TV.![]()
How do you pronounce it? I don't personally know any Welshmen but on TGBBS I've noticed Mary Berry always said skon while Paul Hollywood says skown.This is regional in U.K. too.
Around here we just call them donairs and stay out of the fray.I swear the gyro sammich (just to annoy @SteveH)is pronounced 17 different ways. In the US, I have found its pronunciation is different to the geographic location you are in.
Guilty as charged; I don't pronounce it in-comp-ra-ble. I didn't even know it had to be but I suppose that is correct from a phonetic standpoint.
How do you pronounce it? I don't personally know any Welshmen but on TGBBS I've noticed Mary Berry always said skon while Paul Hollywood says skown.
Around here we just call them donairs and stay out of the fray.
My personal absolutely most despised mispronunciation isn't really one at all, its a purposeful colloquialism: taters. Why, just why? The word is poe-tay-toes and seriously people, it's not clever or funny. Unless you are Cletus on the Simpsons, if you say taters you are embarrassing yourself. And to actually type out mashed taters or sweet taters in a post discussing food? Somebody please call 911 - I'm having a heart attack.![]()
Or a hobbit.
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My personal absolutely most despised mispronunciation isn't really one at all, its a purposeful colloquialism: taters. Why, just why? The word is poe-tay-toes and seriously people, it's not clever or funny. Unless you are Cletus on the Simpsons, if you say taters you are embarrassing yourself. And to actually type out mashed taters or sweet taters in a post discussing food? Somebody please call 911 - I'm having a heart attack.![]()
I don't say taters but this cracks me up. It does sound hillbilly. Like totes or adorb (or totes adorb!) unless your 12 years old -- and I know a lot of 12 year olds, and they don't even use it -- you sound ridiculous.
However, I hope you don't need to call 9-1-1 when someone says they had these on the dinner table.
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I don't know of another term except tater tots.