# Does anyone else dislike mixing meats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974 "2007-10-25T15:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/21 "2007-10-25T17:19:53Z")
Not only do I not have a problem with it, it is one of my great joys. Bacon cheeseburgers. Bacon dogs. (No cheese. I don’t like cheese with hot dogs.) Club sandwiches. Pizza with at least 2 meats. (Pepperoni and bacon, ground beef and bacon, or all 3!) Roast beef and turkey sandwiches. Mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/22 "2007-10-25T17:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Cemetery Savior] Yes, and split down the middle, filled with one slice of sharp cheddar cheese. It’s a Frank-o-cheezie, and it is the proverbial “bomb”. -Cem [/QUOTE] Once you have added pork to the kosher products, I’m sure violating the prohibition against mixing meat and milk is easy. Just another example of that slippery slope argument. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/23 "2007-10-25T18:09:24Z")
[QUOTE=sugar and spice] Or “gyros” as it’s known around here by the Greek name. And a gyros can be anything from single meat to a mixture of meats. Some of the nicer Greek restaurants around here have 100% lamb gyros cones. Kronos, the main supplier of gyros around here, has a pure beef and a beef-lamb mixture. I’ve also had gyros made from 100% veal (in Hungary) as well as 100% turkey. So it’s not always a mix of meats. If my taste buds are to be believed, lamb-less, all-beef gyros spits are much more common around Chicago than you’d think. [/QUOTE] Wow…I can’t believe I typed “gyro”. I really meant to type “gyros”. However, I did not know they were one meat or the other. Maybe I’ll go to Greek Isles tomorrow for lunch! -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/24 "2007-10-25T18:55:18Z")
23 posts in CS about mixing meats and nobody has mentioned Gumbo?! What’s the problem with you people? So, Lib, is gumbo in your no-no list? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/25 "2007-10-25T19:17:32Z")
I should also add that, no, I don’t have a problem with it. My favorite mixed-meat concoction are cevapcici (aka chevapi, cevapi, chevapchichi…derived from the word “kebap”) or pljeskavica. Cevapi are little hand-formed sausage link and pljeskavica is pretty much the patty version of them. I make mine with a mix of lamb, pork, and beef or veal. So mixed dead animals = yummy! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/26 "2007-10-25T19:36:21Z")
**Lib** , your mother was frightened by a turducken while you were in the womb, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/27 "2007-10-25T21:00:22Z")
Geez, I’m starving. And no, I have absolutely no problem with mixing meats. I make a deeee-licious pseudo-gumbo with shrimp, chicken and beef sausage. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/28 "2007-10-25T21:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] No pepperoni. [/QUOTE] That is undoubtedly the craziest thing you have ever said on this board. When Zeus himself wanted to charge up a lightning bolt, he ate a slice of pepperoni pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/29 "2007-10-25T21:23:33Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] **Lib** , your mother was frightened by a turducken while you were in the womb, right? 😉 [/QUOTE] It actually happened to me late in life. Sometime in my late 40s. I just suddenly, for no particular reason, began to be repulsed by the notion of mixing the muscle of one animal with the muscle of another. I ate pepperoni pizza for many years and loved it. I still love the flavor of it (the way it’s seasoned). I just wish they’d use pork only. (Or beef only, but I think pork would be better.) Otherwise, I’m okay. Plants, no problem. Dairy, no problem. […sigh…] I’m just so fucking weird. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/30 "2007-10-25T21:32:05Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] …[…sigh…] I’m just so fucking weird. [/QUOTE] No doubt, but you’re allowed to be weird. In the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing more a quirk. (Just don’t make up a religion with this food requirement, OK?) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/31 "2007-10-25T23:13:30Z")
Gyro = kebab, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/32 "2007-10-25T23:30:11Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Gyro = kebab, right? [/QUOTE] Nope. It is more of a wrap in pita bread, all messy and drippy with all kinds of dead animals and yummy sauces. The meat could have come from a kebab, though. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/33 "2007-10-26T00:07:34Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > But I do have a hangup about eating eggs and chicken at the same time. No idea why. Probably the same time that you don’t eat your victims at the same time as you eat their menses, methinks. **Liberal** : [Gyros](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyros) (same word for singular and plural). [Shawarma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawarma) is the savory treat from the other side of the Mediterranean that Gyros wants to be when it grows up. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/34 "2007-10-26T00:10:52Z")
How can it possibly be that I’m the first person to mention only being interested in guy-girl-girl threesomes? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/35 "2007-10-26T00:29:09Z")
Awwww, shucks, **Liberal** , I’d have invited you for Christmas, last year we had a 3-bird roast (website - _“Free range duck, pheasant and pigeon all boned and stuff in one family feast!”_). And only the other day I was making a bolognese, with chicken liver & everything. Yeah, I don’t get it. Reluctance to the mincing, something textural, that I can fully understand. I adore the flavour of olives, love olive oil, but cannot stand biting on one. No idea why (well, other than it feels horrible 😛 ). I wonder whether you need a blind test. You’d need friends you can trust, to maybe prepare two sandwiches, both with a variety of fragrant meats, one from one animal, one from two. Etc. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/36 "2007-10-26T00:31:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Nope. It is more of a wrap in pita bread, all messy and drippy with all kinds of dead animals and yummy sauces. The meat could have come from a kebab, though. [/QUOTE] Note that there’s different uses of terms in different places. The entire serving, as you describe, would be a damn fine 2am kebab in Britain. (‘Gee-ros? Ya fakin wha?’) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/37 "2007-10-26T00:53:43Z")
As the leading expert on meatloaf, I can say that the best on the planet combines ground beef and ground lamb. And I put ground Jimmy Dean sage sausage in my turkey stuffing. Go ahead - gag. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/38 "2007-10-26T00:54:41Z")
I don’t have any problem with it! One of my favorite things in the world is a big sandwich on a crusty bun, with several kinds of deli meats - ham, roast beef, turkey, corned beef, salami, just about any combination, with provolone and maybe medium cheddar, mustard, tomato, onion and lettuce. And a kosher pickle (half sours, please) on the side. My wife calls me the king of sandwich makers. I like a bacon cheeseburger once in a blue moon, too. And Ball Park hot dogs. They plump when you cook 'em! BTW, there is a dish made from chicken and eggs. It’s called a Mother And Child Reunion. Now you know where the song comes from! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/39 "2007-10-26T00:58:27Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] Nope. It is more of a wrap in pita bread, all messy and drippy with all kinds of dead animals and yummy sauces. The meat could have come from a kebab, though. [/QUOTE] Nope, gyros is pretty much the Greek version of what is known as a doner kebab elsewhere. Gyros and doner are pretty much the same thing–meat on a spit, served in some sort of flatbread, with veggies and sauces. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974/40 "2007-10-26T01:19:36Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] As the leading expert on meatloaf, I can say that the best on the planet combines ground beef and ground lamb. And I put ground Jimmy Dean sage sausage in my turkey stuffing. Go ahead - gag. [/QUOTE] It was a gag that would put Elaine Benes to shame. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-dislike-mixing-meats/423974.md?page=3)