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Had an omelette with gyro meat, polish sausage and Tzatziki sauce. I think this is my new go to at my diner.
 
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eatler said:
Okay hear me out.

Had an omelette with gyro meat, polish sausage and Tzatziki sauce. I think this is my new go to at my diner.
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I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

My favorite omelette at a Greek type diner is feta cheese and olives though. With a side of Greek style baklava.
 
Got to try a pizza cone for the first time at a fair. A bit small, but very tasty. Would definitely have one again if given a chance.
 
eatler said:
Okay hear me out.

Had an omelette with gyro meat, polish sausage and Tzatziki sauce. I think this is my new go to at my diner.
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I don't know how you prepare your tzatziki, but its usually made with fresh cucumbers, dill, quite a bit of raw garlic and some vinegar. Imagining the boiled garlic suspended in a omelet doesn't sound very good. Also wouldn't yogurt just make the egg watery, how did you cook it (scrambled, folded or like a casserole)? IMO it would probably be better if you subbed the tzatziki with feta, halloumi or almost any other cheese.
 
CallmeCicada said:
I don't know how you prepare your tzatziki, but its usually made with fresh cucumbers, dill, quite a bit of raw garlic and some vinegar.
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I could see a garlic/dill sour cream, but yeah, I don't think I would prefer tzatziki sauce on an omelette.
 
Kosher Salt said:
I could see a garlic/dill sour cream, but yeah, I don't think I would prefer tzatziki sauce on an omelette.
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When he is saying he had an omelet "with" sausage, gyro meat and tzatziki I am assuming he had cooked all three in the omelet was my understanding. But I will change my mind and say he meant they were on the side since that makes way more sense. But that tzatziki should never touch an omelet either way.
 
CallmeCicada said:
When he is saying he had an omelet "with" sausage, gyro meat and tzatziki I am assuming he had cooked all three in the omelet was my understanding. But I will change my mind and say he meant they were on the side since that makes way more sense. But that tzatziki should never touch an omelet either way.
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I assumed that the meats were cooked "in" the omelette and the tzatziki was a condiment.
 
CallmeCicada said:
When he is saying he had an omelet "with" sausage, gyro meat and tzatziki I am assuming he had cooked all three in the omelet was my understanding. But I will change my mind and say he meant they were on the side since that makes way more sense. But that tzatziki should never touch an omelet either way.
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I've seen that in probably dozens of Greek run diners. Usually with feta, olives, tomatoes, etc. in the omelet itself.
 
Kosher Salt said:
I assumed that the meats were cooked "in" the omelette and the tzatziki was a condiment.
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Who knows, he wasn't very specific about the preparation. Either way Tzatziki and egg sounds awful especially if it that garbage you get from restaurants in the US which is made with most watery yogurt and almost nothing it besides some oregano, salt and maybe some cucumber.

AnOminous said:
I've seen that in probably dozens of Greek run diners. Usually with feta, olives, tomatoes, etc. in the omelet itself.
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I have never seen this in all my life. I have never seen it here in the US or in Greece. I believe you, but it is just so strange to me. Maybe its a regional thing.
 
CallmeCicada said:
Who knows, he wasn't very specific about the preparation. Either way Tzatziki and egg sounds awful especially if it that garbage you get from restaurants in the US which is made with most watery yogurt and almost nothing it besides some oregano, salt and maybe some cucumber.
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I agree, yogurt sounds like a terrible substitution for sour cream; cucumber does not belong anywhere near an omelette, and vinegar, only if it's in hot sauce.
 
Kosher Salt said:
I agree, yogurt sounds like a terrible substitution for sour cream; cucumber does not belong anywhere near an omelette, and vinegar, only if it's in hot sauce.
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Is even putting sour cream in a folded omelet actually good though? I imagine it would make the egg watery and not creamy.
 
CallmeCicada said:
I have never seen this in all my life. I have never seen it here in the US or in Greece. I believe you, but it is just so strange to me. Maybe its a regional thing.
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I'm pretty sure it's an American Greek thing, like Cincinnati "chili," and may be a regional thing, also like Cincinnati chili. I think I've mostly seen it in those greasy spoon type diners built into a retired train car.
 
AnOminous said:
I'm pretty sure it's an American Greek thing, like Cincinnati "chili," and may be a regional thing, also like Cincinnati chili. I think I've mostly seen it in those greasy spoon type diners built into a retired train car.
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I am Greek American and this is the first I've heard of it. It's definitely not common where I am. We have lots of diners like that around here and a good majority are Greek as well. Usually a Greek omelet if its on the menu would just have feta cheese, and maybe some sautéed veg mixed in.

Also, first time I heard of Cincinnati "chili", I love how diners can just make the strangest food combinations and people don't seem to care. It's amazing

I always learn about new foods/food information I've never heard of from reading your posts. Your Ghost pepper jelly also sounded very interesting.
 
CallmeCicada said:
I am Greek American and this is the first I've heard of it. It's definitely not common where I am. We have lots of diners like that around here and a good majority are Greek as well. Usually a Greek omelet if its on the menu would just have feta cheese, and maybe some sautéed veg mixed in.
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I've been looking for menus with this on it, and can't find them, but the places I've seen that offer it, it seems people order the feta cheese omelet off the menu and then since the place also serves gyros, they also have the sauce.

It might just be I know a bunch of weirdos who order stuff like this and it happens to be available because they have the ingredients.

I personally love just a feta omelet, nothing but feta.
CallmeCicada said:
Also, first time I heard of Cincinnati "chili", I love how diners can just make the strangest food combinations and people don't seem to care. It's amazing
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This is actually ridiculously popular in the Midwest. There are competing brands. It is not "Greek" in any sense, it's just a weird sauce someone invented that is now served over pasta. Things like firehouses trying to raise money often have something like a chili night that involves serving it over spaghetti.

And I just went to WP and it said it's actually apparently popular in parts of the Middle East, too. Why? I have no idea. It's actually pretty good if you want an abnormal sauce for pasta.

Earlier today I got to pillage the remaining tomatoes out of a gardener friend's garden (the one who has been giving me tomatoes all year) and I'm going to make very traditional marinara sauce out of the five pounds of plum tomatoes I got before he mowed it under because the season is over.
 
AnOminous said:
nothing but feta
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You talking about tomatoes and feta reminded me of one of my favorite ways to eat Feta, Dakos. If you can find a Greek specialty store that carries the Rye rusks I highly recommend trying it. Also an interesting note about feta, apparently a lot of it that we get here in the U.S. is not actually feta but a different type of white cheese that they just heavily salt. The feta I buy now from a store that opened here recently told me about this, and the feta they have is so much better, it feels like it melts on your tongue. I'll have to figure out what brand it is, I just get it by weight like how a deli gives it to you so I am not sure what it's called. Anyway I rambled too long, attached pic is what I was talking about earlier.

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CallmeCicada said:
The feta I buy now from a store that opened here recently told me about this, and the feta they have is so much better, it feels like it melts on your tongue.
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I have a Bulgarian feta I currently prefer. It's called other names but it's basically a feta.

Also in recently eaten, I got this hard candy that is salty licorice. It's salty and very bitter. My first thought on tasting it was this is fucking horrible. But then when I chomped down on it and finished it off, my next thought was I want some more of this and then devoured multiple pieces.

It's called salmiak and is almost an anti-candy in that it has predominant flavors of bitterness and salt, with only mild undertones of sweetness.

I love this kind of shit though, where the flavor is actually shocking.

It's also in licorice form. Warning that it is almost the Malort of licorice and licorice flavored candy.
 
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