[Ads-l] Gyro

[Martin Schneider]

This post will help the taco discussion along, if we're having it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070828123040/https://washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_08/011939.php

The comments are lengthy and probably of use to the investigator.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 3:23 PM Martin Schneider <wovenstrap at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This reminds me. Some years ago the California-based blogger Kevin Drum
> tracked uses of the word "taco" in the undeniably East Coast pages of The
> New Yorker, making it clear that the term was all but unknown to its
> readers even as Californians were very familiar with the term. I think the
> time frame was similar. Might be worth a thread of its own.
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM victor steinbok <
> 000025123e35b025-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
>> OED has the earliest citation from NYT for September 1971. This one is a
>> few months earlier. It likely had been in use in NYC for close to a
>> decade,
>> at the point. Possibly earlier in Chicago.
>>
>> "There are two versions of the now-popular gyro sandwich of pressed lamb
>> wrapped in Holy Land bread..."
>>
>> New York Magazine, Volume 4, No.26 June 28, 1971, p. 64
>>
>> VS-)
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