In Greece there is lots of street food, and it isn't necessarily healthy by any means. What it is though is tasty, filling, cheap, and available into the wee hours of the morning. Most people love to try Gyros which are the giant spinning cylinders of meat that gets shaved off. You can choose between pork and chicken. It is stuffed into a pita with tzatziki, tomatoes, onions, and loaded with French fries. Yum!
Recently however I stumbled across a new way of eating meat on the street. I was walking down the street in the capital of Crete, Heraklion, and I saw a bunch of smoke rising from a grill and the smell of souvlaki was overwhelming!
When I walked up to the shop it was literally a charcoal grill right in front of you with no glass in front. There were skewers of pork souvlaki, chicken souvlaki, greek burgers, and greek sausages all being grilled.
I ordered pork souvlaki because that's the best selling food at this shop. Each stick I ordered came with a grilled piece of bread and slice of lemon. I squeezed the lemon over the stick and the flavor of the lemon and oregano on grilled meat is just too good to be true. There's something about eating meat off of a stick that makes you feel like a caveman. There's nothing difficult or crazy about this meat, it's flavored simply, cooked simply, and simply freaking delicious!
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