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Recipes featured in this episode: - Gyro Meat with Tzatziki Saucemoreless
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Alton Brown
Host and Creator
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Contradiction: Although onscreen trivia here says the gyro was created over 2000 years ago, Deb Duchon says later in the episode that it was invented in New York City, probably in a Greek Orthodox festival around 1970.
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Onscreen trivia: Sheep were the first animals to be domesticated.
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Onscreen trivia: The gyro is said to have originated more than 2,000 years ago.
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Onscreen trivia: Columbus brought sheep to the New World on his second voyage in 1493.
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Onscreen trivia: Similar to "Farmer in the Dell", Gyro Oli is a favorite children's game in Greece.
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Onscreen trivia: Meatloaf, aka Marvin Lee Aday, was born in Texas in 1947.
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ALLUSIONS (3)
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MacGyver Alton puts together a home version of the upright rotisserie unit seen in many Greek restaurants, referring to it as a MacGyver. He's talking about Richard Dean Anderson's title role in MacGyver . MacGyver routinely invented and juryrigged his way out of trouble on the show, usually with commonly available items.
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Spin & Roast 3000, Close the Door and Ignore These bits from Alton's discussion of countertop rotisserie units mock Ron Popeil's line of rotisseries, and their tagline: Set it and Forget It. Ronco ads are staples of "paid promotion" programs, and most of them are for this line of products, one of their most popular.
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My Big Fat Greek Sandwich This title is a reference to the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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