JoeT85
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it's always cool to get the recipe. Might never make it, but nice to have it.
Jun 10, 2026 12:04 PM
JoeT85
30582
1410
11
it's always cool to get the recipe. Might never make it, but nice to have it.
obarey
When Gyro III?
Ebo352
Second best recipe promulgation.
Can't find the screenshot of the lady who put her cookie recipe on her tombstone after telling everyone for decades she'd share it "over my dead body."
Still left off the secret ingredient....the bitch
ButtscratchMcPherson
Needs more dill weed.
AlmostClever
Well that's just great, now I'll always associate 9/11 with unhappy memories.
ArdentSlacker
Well, crap, I just got caught up on Gyro season 1. :o
spattr
Kind of him to add the recipe. I'm usually wary of Greeks bearing gifts.
vorodar
The recipe secretly smuggles grease in your body.
arrbos
Perfectly fine sauce. Especially if you make your own mayo, which is a lot easier than people think. It's just oil, vinegar, and egg, with a stick blender. You can make the amount you need.
Good to have the basic commercial stuff in the fridge sometimes, though. They load it up with so many preservatives and stabilizers that it's nice to have a long-lasting alternative for small uses where it's not the main ingredient.
HunglikeaHamster
You should add a pinch of finely ground white pepper. Also first add the vinegar (about 2 tablespoons per egg) to the egg and gently stir, before adding the oil. The acid will kill any salmonella bacteria present in the egg.
hovelhopper
This reminds me of a Thai place I loved in college. When they went out of business, the owner wrote down the recipe for her curry and gave it to me and I put it in my wallet. That was also the day I learned about thermal paper.
bottledham
Recipe was too hot, eh?
CrimeSceneShoe
Just took nine years to post?
license2kilt
Anyone complaining about mayo, notice they called it white sauce, not tatziki, and please calm tf down.
Fargus57
TBH, calling someone a 'dill weed' was a brutal playground insult back in third grade or so. I haven't matured enough inside to forget that.
necessity
Y'all gonna be real upset if you ever see how many kabob and greek shops use mayo for their sauces.
adiving
"y'all" a small number of people who... very obviously do not share the general sentiment.
RubbleTrouser
Don't know about this secret sauce but gyro tzatziki is made with yogurt, chopped garlic, salt, chopped cukes and dill.
johnblood616
I used to work at a shitty restaurant that used to be a different shitty restaurant. MONTHS after it changed morons would come in and go "what happened to the other place?! I loved it!"
You loved it so much you didnt come here enough to notice it wasnt here. Also, no you cannot order from that menu.
willpostanything
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NaughtButOne
When my favorite Chinese shop closed, I asked for the recipe to their garlic spare ribs. Even offered to buy it. But they wouldn't share it. Which, I mean, is their right, but man I'm gonna miss those ribs. :c
hogninja
Jokes on them, nobody knows which are ounces by weight and ounces by volume.
supervillin
TrumpRapesAndEatsChildren0002
Using Kefir i.s.o. mayo, adding salt/pepper/garlic and subbing vinegar with lime will make it better.
peterchen
As a German, I am appaled at gyro white sauce that doesn't give you a 48 hour garlic aftertaste.
theobituator
So much drama!
I always thought gyro sauce was garlic, vinegar, and condensed milk...
IncognitoEnthusiast
dex5
Bros, they called it “white sauce” not “tzatziki”. It was a proprietary condiment. Chill.
nomadengineer
Chill, refrigerate, same thing.
ApplesdaKitty
The white sauce goes amazing with rosemary fries.
nickswoop
Hell yeah
Dajova
Well, tzatzili have cucumber and garlic in it as well, so... There's that.
RecurringNightmare
and salt and pepper...pretty obvious this is another sauce they had on their menu that people liked a lot...
Dajova
Plus, it's made in yoghurt, not mayo.
Cebrail
Who the F thought that was Tzatziki ? It has none of the ingredients........Tzatziki is Yoghurt, Cucumber, Garlic and sometimes dill and olive oil......
OriginalAndWitty
People that don't know the difference? Ask most people what the 'white sauce' is on pita gyros and I bet they wouldn't know what that is or how to pronounce it. I only know it because I used to live there and can make tzatziki from scratch, my wife was clueless on it when we met(now she loves it because it's delicious, lol).
spittleteets
Tzatziki is the only "white sauce" I've ever had with gyro.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
it's always just flavored mayo. always.
warpfactor1
That is literally what almost every "aioli" is
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Well yeah, mayo is a mother sauce. It's also one of - if not the - only sauces that combines being neutral enough to take on virtually any flavour, has good taste and texure while cold or room temp, a long shelf life, flexible enough to account for any dietary restriction, and a recipe suitable for industrial scale production, giving it an accessible price. W/o mayo the number of financially feasible sauces would be a fraction of what is accessible.
Though tbh I dislike mayo as well.
Jamesstin
Is it cause it's white like semen?
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
What?
EstoyPoopis
Hahhaha
IAMSRC
While I am not an eater of mayo based foods, sharing this recipe is a kind departing gesture from the owner to their loyal customers.
Arcanum3000
No fry sauce? No "special sauce" on burgers? Because like 90% of the time those are mayo + ketchup + spices and flavorings. Seriously.
Badprenup
Correct and no thank you. People going out of their way to fuck up perfectly good ketchup is what that is. There's a dozen good ketchup alternatives that aren't just adding mayo to something, and that's not counting variants like different flavors of BBQ sauce
IAMSRC
100% seriously. I can't stand "special sauces" (Cane's, Dave's, In/Out, McD's, etc). I wish I did, life would be easier. Mayo and beets are my only two major food dislikes. I do enjoy the Smashing Pumpkins version Mayonnaise although it's been a while since I've heard it.
wejustdontknow
My father swore he hated mayo and refused to eat it, even though he loved my mom's tuna salad and potato salad which he didn't know are loaded with mayo.
dohcohv
I'm in a similar boat to your father. I hate plain mayo on like a ham sandwich, or any cold sandwich in general, but I'll make an exception for tuna fish, but I don't like potato salad.
Mix it with a bunch of garlic or other strong seasonings and it's fine, plain mayo, bad.
imakesoap
My son won’t eat mayo, but loves my potato salad and my macaroni salad, although I go light on the dressing (and it’s half Mayo, half sour cream, which he hates too lol)
RevengeIsIceCream
I mean, for a long time I wouldn't drink straight up gin or straight up tonic water... a gin and tonic still tasted damn good.
Willowofwisp
Right, well I hated mayo as a kid, and I still hate mustard, but my mom's macaroni salad? Love it. The sauce is 50% mayo and 50% mustard. Dislike 100% of the components on their own, but together? Amazing. That's kind of what happens in cooking. Just because someone dislikes the base components doesn't necessarily mean they won't like the end product.
Mark0ftheBeast
Will 9-11 never stop haunting us?
Khelben350
Why is the ninth of November a thing?
Felderburg
"Remember remember, the ninth of November..."
Mark0ftheBeast
National fried chicken sandwich day. It also haunts me
2B4UALL
The ingredients add up to 45 oz.
theskepticinme
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
Yeah, someone making this at home would probably want to reduce everything to 1/4 portions except the dill. Def keep that same amount of dill.
DarthAndy
Something fucky is going on guys, this may be AI slop. Really fucking weird slop, but anyway... 9 November 2017 was a Thursday not a Monday.
welcometothedystopia
I think the month is September
RadioRandy
In the US they do the whole month/day/year thing.
DarthAndy
Well that's kinda fucked up, but if it's what they're used to then fair enough. As long as they don't assume that's normal anywhere else or things could get annoying.
ThailandExpress
wow, speaking as a white person, that looks way to spicy for me
GuyLuomo
Ha! Thanks for the chuckle :)
EmanNiemThcin
Is this some sort of american joke I'm too european to understand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrain
HypnagogicHallucinations
Do you not pick on the British for having bland food?
EmanNiemThcin
Not really, I think that's more of an anglosphere in-joke. I mean i've heard the stereotype, but us DACH people (Deutschland, Austria, Confoederatio Helvetica) engage more in jokes and stereotypes about each other than bothering to keep up with whatever it is the brits are doing in their island. Pretty similar to you guys in the anglosphere.
HypnagogicHallucinations
Then if it isn't clear already, there is a stereotype that white people do not eat spicy food. Often the reference might specify certain areas of the U.S. with a high percentage of white people.
There is another stereotype used for jokes that British food is not only mild (no capsaicin), but generally bland (no spices generally).
ThailandExpress
Jamesstin
Horseradish is spicy? I don't really like spicy but that's like wasabi mild
Cyandvai
it is. The cultural joke is that white people eat bland food and that Mayo is too spicy. Stateside horseradish is often service with prime rib.
Mairoa
To clarify for Europeans, it's the middle class/upper middle class white people. Mayo is spicy to my partner's family. Then the poor white folks go for the "anus prolapser" hot sauce
madflenser
Which is hilarious if you've ever been to redneck country
TheLastBootyBender
Wood chipper in your colon Hot Sauce
rdewalt
Or stopped at any "Truck Stop" gas station and looked at their "Why the hell is there a wall of hot sauce here?" hot sauces. You start from the eh, its okay "Devil's Spit", all the way up to "No this is locked behind a case you cannot have it without a prescription beard and certificate of adequacy from your toilet."
rdewalt
There are "White people" who think Ketchup is spicy. And then there are people that believe that unless your life is In Danger, it isn't worth eating. Growing up with a dad deep into the "Pain is the only flavor I want in my food" I learned you eventually get to where you're considering bear mace as a dessert topping.
Cyandvai
I'm Southern, ya, grandma's cooking was full of flavor. I never really understoon the joke, but I do know some people that just can't cook and their food is bland.
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
It's about upper-middle class WASPs and those who aspired to that social class.
69Voltage
To all those bitching about the owner using mayo……he’s been in business for 45 years(no easy feat), so apparently people like it
DianNaoChong
And it's a sandwich sauce, the horror
Sensiblyinteresting
I absolutely hate mayo but as you as you add anything to it, it's amazing.
CaptSchmidtGaming
Its not trendy to bitch about mayo. go eat your $25 designer bacon you hipster fuck
Poopoopeepeevagina
Don't fix it if it's not broken
JaimeLannistersRightHand
People who bitch about mayo being a negativity to life which I so not want
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
The Mediterranean restaurant I worked for made their garlic sauce - toom - using mayo as a base, and it was fucking amazing. I'd probably drink that shit straight from the bottle if I could.
Whitebeardthepirate
eh, some people are going to bitch no matter what anyone does. some are just terminally unhappy.
makesense
This recipe isn't that far off from Ranch dressing....so this was probably in the Midwest where people don't understand good tasting sauces. ;)
viva93
sure but people also go crazy for soybean oil with brown sugar and liquid smoke and go nuts for the "BBQ sauce". I mean Canes has been in business for 30 years and they make god awful chicken but super popular sauce. A business can slouch somewhere but make up elsewhere. Canes fans literally tell me to not even bother eating the chicken without the sauce because the chickens bland as fuck. A collective of people liking something doesn't make it good. a collective of the US wanted trump.
viva93
I'm all for letting people like what they like. but the recipe is literally sandwich dressing which is super popular only in England (not the UK as a whole) and I bet the same people who love the sauce would turn their nose up at a jar of sandwich dressing. I bet they made good gyros, id just not use their sauce because I've been spoiled by homemade tzatzki.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Seriously its eggs and oil. This is essentially pretty similar to making a compound butter. Now I don't think I personally would like it but I also have not tried it.
Antrobus55
Also hollandaise
Urgalicity
To run a restaurant for 45 years is statistically as close to a business God as you can get. Screw Wall Street, that is some 1:1bn odds.
dracklen
Though, 45 years ago the business may have actually been able to buy the property they’re on and have minimal debt within a few years. Now that is basically impossible unless the owner starts off wealthy :/
Urgalicity
Most restaurants stay in business less than 3 years, and less than 1% make it to 10 years.
Blud4BludGod
Obviously restaurants are a difficult industry with thin margins, but I gotta say that if we're talking about small/privately owned establishments it is also because the majority of people who open such places have no business doing so. They are primarily owned by people from wealthy backgrounds who think a successful restaurant will be a cash cow, who have never worked in restaurants themselves (or, often, a day in their life), and do not understand the industry they are entering.
Blud4BludGod
You also occasionally get actual blue collars with restaurant backgrounds, but unfortunately people like that are often opening shops by going into significant debt and have fucked financials out the gate, and are doing so as a last gasp attempt to escape the cycle of poverty that is working as a cook.
People who open shops with enough finances to give time to establish a customer base, the experience to make good decisions, and an actual plan are *extremely rare*
ProjectDA
as someone that works selling food stuffs, ive seen several restaurants that have no clue what they are doing or how to store products. storing things at the wrong temp to save space and blaming your products for going bad. not know how to cook recipes and asking that i make them recipes for their restaurant. the more common is the person that thought a restaurant prints money with minimal effort.
insaaanity
Also worth pointing out that types of mayo differ enormously. I do not believe we're talking about the store bought snot most are familiar with if it was this beloved. Homemade mayo is just an emulsion of eggs and oil, making it an eggcelent carrier of flavour.
warpfactor1
They should have called it an aioli
People that complain would pay double the price for it 🙄
Hornedequine
Drives me nuts that no one actually has aioli. Its just flavored mayo at this point
NorthSideSoldier
If you truly wanted to be accurate aioli is only a mayo and garlic mix.
emu314159127001
You can just sub in yogurt. That's what they use in tsatsiki anyway
williamshakesbeer
Ya but this is the sweet sauce they also offer, completely different from tsatsiki
emu314159127001
Well, if it was a secret recipe, can't be bad. Plus, while i really don't like mayo by itself, if it's an ingredient in a larger whole the sauce can be good.
emu314159127001
I'd throw in some diced cucumber, actually. Instead of pickles
MisterRichard
The number of people who bitch about mayo but don't like some sauce that is 70% mayo by volume is like 6 planet wide.
kershaw
Hey hey, I feel attacked here.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
You just have to tell them that it's an oil emulsion
DarthFutuza
People don't like mayo?
justheretocommentonce
Or that my kebab looks like horse ejaculate with a dash of meat in it. Go easy on the sauce.
JonnyTightlips
Nope...ALL THE SAUCE
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
Hey, proper kebab has toum on it... which is essentially a Lebanese take on aïoli (the real one, not that garlic mayo shit). Just garlic, oil, salt, and some lemon juice.
Making toum (or aïoli) is rather trickier than making mayo and flavouring it (or realistically buying mayo and flavouring it), hence the proliferation of garlic mayo/garlic sauce/"aïoli" (it also came about during the time when fats were evil and to be avoided, so changing the name fooled a lot of people)
purebordem
I think you are down playing how much you is garlic by volume
ElbowDeepInAPoliceState
You talking about toum? To make about 1 litre you're going to need 200~250mL of peeled garlic, against 600-700mL of oil. So yeah, it's a staggering amount of garlic, and definitely hard to actually do right at the scale that even a failing restaurant operates at. You need to use pretty fresh garlic, or else the taste is bitter and not at all enjoyable
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
It's not mayo, it's aioli!
PimpinKen
At the risk of being pedantic, an aioli has an actual recipe that involves more than egg yolks, oil, mustard, and acidity. It has garlic as well! /slight s
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
Most of the time the aioli is a lie, and it's mayo.
Canigetbannedagain2
Yep, it's mayo and garlic. Most people don't want to take the time to actually make aioli.
1stDrunkJoe
Next you're going to tell me the wasabi is horseradish dyed green.
Cataleast
mayoli
SailorPupitar
Mayolie
theshinobi23
My first job 25 years ago was at a Japanese Steakhouse. The yum-yum sauce has always been immensely popular. It was made in a 5-gallon bucket. 4 gallons of mayo, 7/8 gallon of water. Last 1/8 gallon was spices that the owner refused to let anyone else know. "Ancient Japanese Secret" he would say.
Akurei00
I looked up a recipe online a while back and one of the ingredients was ketchup. I was very hesitant, but it turned out spot on
Bastetsmorlock
Which means it was either Old Bay or Lipton Onion Soup Mix.
darthinebriated
Probably a mix of both with some msg to make it extra awesome
theshinobi23
Those may have been mixed in, but I remember catching him mixing it one time and seeing paprika, so that's the only thing I know for sure was in it. Point is, though, that it's literally 4/5 (80%) mayo.