Sho-arma...
Or Gyros...
Or Gyros...
The Shawarma factor
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Shawarma is the same thing as a gyro? Okay then. I no longer have to wonder what Shawarma tastes like then. Mystery solved. Thank you. 
I wouldn't say so, though I haven't had that many shawarmas. Depends on where you get them, but shawarmas usually blow gyros away...but then gyros have that cucumber sauce that often makes me nauseous after I eat it (which is why I stopped eating gyros). Gryros have thicker pita bread, while shawarmas are more like a wrap/burrito.
Oh for goodness sake, you can't try to get people to agree to adopt a meme and expect it to get any traction.. It's something that has to happen on it's own. That's what a meme is: an idea or concept that passes from one person to another through imitation.
You can use it yourself in your own vernacular by all means and if people start to copy it on there own, then it's a meme. If you try an *tell* people to imitate you, I can pretty much guarantee most won't and will ridicule the few that do and it will die a pretty quick death. Indeed, true memes last for generations, if not centuries and millennia. Most of this crap on the internet that are called memes won't last anywhere near that long, probably not even a decade before they fall into utter obscurity and so it's mostly just a series of fads. Seriously, try the "arrow to the knee" gag on someone in five or ten years time and all you'll get is a blank stare. Hell, try it right now and you're likely to get a flick round the ear hole.
You can use it yourself in your own vernacular by all means and if people start to copy it on there own, then it's a meme. If you try an *tell* people to imitate you, I can pretty much guarantee most won't and will ridicule the few that do and it will die a pretty quick death. Indeed, true memes last for generations, if not centuries and millennia. Most of this crap on the internet that are called memes won't last anywhere near that long, probably not even a decade before they fall into utter obscurity and so it's mostly just a series of fads. Seriously, try the "arrow to the knee" gag on someone in five or ten years time and all you'll get is a blank stare. Hell, try it right now and you're likely to get a flick round the ear hole.
Ugh. I hate this compulsion to create new words ("tween", "blogosphere") or phrases (i don't know..."nuke the fridge"...but nobody really uses that...maybe "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"?). What exactly is wrong with calling it the "post credit scene"?
Not cutesy enough? Not douchey enough?
Not cutesy enough? Not douchey enough?
^ You can never have too much douche!
Shawarma is the same thing as a gyro? Okay then. I no longer have to wonder what Shawarma tastes like then. Mystery solved. Thank you.
Well, basically, but with different ingredients/combination of foods in it. Gyro is usually a lamb "meatloaf"-like food, onions, and a cucumber sauce and has Greek origins.
Shawarma is a middle-eastern version but usually with different ingredients inside, the meat is more of shaved whole cuts of meat (usually lamb or some type of poultry.) Toppings and sauce can be different too.
Yeah, they're "essentially" the same type of food as both are very similar but they're also "the same" as, I dunno, lasagna is to a enchilada casserole.
I had never even heard the word "shawarma" until The Avengers, and to be honest, as a result it very much took me out of the movie. I kept wondering, "What the fuck are they talking about? Is shawarma the name of a new restaurant? Is it a type of food?" I was very confused.
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