The Gyros Project

Today’s Web site is about a sandwich. I guess that will teach me to search for sites while I’m hungry. But I guess it really couldn’t be classified as a sandwich. I guess it’s like a salad, or rather, well, I ‘m just not sure what you would call it. Heck, I can’t even pronounce it. But you can read about by just clicking onward.

The site is called The Gyros Project. It is a study - a presentation, if you will - of the signs in Chicago that have become well known over the years. They are appreciated by both visitors and residents alike. Here you can see these masterpieces of art in which anonymous artisans have rendered a staple of the culinary underclass into an art form, and put that transcendence on the street corner. Fast food is not the usual subject of creative vision, nor ramshackle shacks and under-the-El storefronts its usual location, but that makes this accidental outdoor art show all the more pleasing. These snacks are snacks in name only. In some of these locations, you get them so large you won’t eat dinner or breakfast, they are so filling.

When I was growing up, Gyros was a character in Walt Disney comics. Now I see that it is actually an epicurean delight from Greece. Great food, in a great city. The Warp-o-Meter gives this site a 7.0.