Meat--Famine or Feast and Other Thoughts on Greek Food

In Italy, we hardly ate any meat, except for prosciutto & salami. We could have had meat at the restaurants, but it was very expensive. I made chicken for dinner one night, but it was even expensive at the store. We decided when we got home we would be hitting the new Texas Roadhouse in AF. But then we went to Greece where we ate lots of meat--mostly pork. It was all yummy, but I began to crave a big American salad bar! We did have Greek salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, olive oil, oregano and feta cheese) many times and I did order a spinach salad at one restaurant and at another I had stuffed peppers and tomatoes. We also had souvlaki a couple of times, but our favorite, hands down, Greek food item was the gyro. They are SO YUMMY! I always thought they were prepared with lamb, and maybe they used to be, but all the ones we saw were pork. You could also get chicken ones (which I usually did). They were delicious and inexpensive (always less than 2 euro each). They come with the meat, tzatziki, tomatoes, & onions all wrapped in pita bread--but not pocket pitas. Thick, soft, delicious Greek pita. Mmm, mmm good. We discovered that we all like tzatziki and greek yogurt with greek honey drizzled on it and most of us like baklava. There are so many different kinds--I guess if we had been there longer we maybe would have tried more of them (kind of like gelato in Italy). So we have learned that our family not only likes Italian food but we also like Greek food. Maybe we'll make it up to Salt Lake next month for the Greek Festival??