What do you call that sandwich?

[TahitiNut]

Poll question: What do you call that sandwich?

You know the sandwich I mean. It's the one that's mad from a small loaf of bread 6-12" long, filled with some combination of meats, condiments, veggies, dressings, and spices.

What do you call it?

[TahitiNut]

1. Let's see how "mainstream" we are.

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_64.html

[Superfly]

12. A "sarney"???

:shrug:

[ewagner]

2. There's a difference I think

To me, anyway,Subs and Hoagies are usually filled with cold cuts.

Grinders were always Italian sausage or meatballs, etc,,,

I also think there are some regional preferences at work.

Had my first sub in Atlantic City when I was only 4 yrs old....hooked on subs these days.....but not the Subway variety

[ixion]

3. lol... from dictionary.com

Sub

A large sandwich consisting of a long roll split lengthwise and filled with layers of meat, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, and condiments. Also called sub1, also called regionally Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, torpedo, wedge, zep.


Grinder

1: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States syn: bomber, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=grinder

[ProfessorGAC]

4. It's A Sub to Me

And i sure do like those babies, too!
The Professor

[Virginian]

5. Per a '60's radio show, a "Schrewsbury"

WBZ Boston used to come in loud and clear in Virginia in the evenings. We could listen to it in the car all the way from Richmond to Washington.

One of the DJ's had a thing about the Earl of Sandwich stealing the idea from the Duke of Schrewsbury. Loved that show. I wish there was something like it on the air now.

[NightTrain]

6. I call it "Steve."

:evilgrin:

[redqueen]

18. lol! I think I prefer Bob.

:)

OT: Has anyone else ever noticed that the 'LOL' acronym, if typed in lower case letters as above, looks like a person holding their hands up as if being arrested or something?

[phillybri]

7. In Philly, it's a Hoagie...

It seems to me that's just about the only place it's called that, though...

[judge_smales]

9. Let us remeber, though

that even with so few other people using the word it's still just plain RIGHT.

It's a hoagie. We're right and they're wrong.

In fact I happen to know the etymology of the word if you're curious. Just more proof that it's a hoagie.

[IronLionZion]

11. Yeah its a hoagie

but what's the origin of that term?

PA rules!

[Robb]

17. My dad called 'em hoagies...

...and he was from Winnepeg. :shrug:

[judge_smales]

19. Pretty basic really-

Once upon a time, down Sout' Philly there was the Hogg Island Ship Yard, and across the street there was a sandwich shop. The guy who ran the place- his last name started w/ a "C", but I can't remember it just now- came up w/ a big sandwich on a long Italian roll w/ meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and onion. It was big seller when he tried it out so he put it on the menu permanently with a name that gave tribute to the bulk of his customer base- the guys from the ship yard across the street: The Hoggie.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[NoPasaran]

8. Schpahlet

per my Ukrainian family in New Haven

[meegbear]

10. Lunch

[nemo137]

24. sounds about right.

[eyesroll]

13. I call them subs.

My mom started calling them "subs" when we got a Subway. Before then, she called them "poor boys." She's lived in the Chicago area all of her life. A "poor boy," as she made them, generally involved generous amounds of cold cuts, cheese, pickles and Thousand Island dressing.

I've always called them "subs" (my sister used to call them "summerine sammiches," when she was little).

My one exception is when it's a genuine "po' boy," and then I call it such.

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. SAM-midge!!!

mmmmmm sammidges.

[geniph]

15. Depends where I'm buying it from

here in the Pacific Northwest, we don't have a regional name for it. Some sandwich shops call them subs, some call them hoagies, and some call them grinders. Subs are probably the most generic term, but at least a quarter of the better places call them grinders. I still have fond memories of the veggie grinders at the Hungry U, near the University of Washington - that place made great sandwiches.

[geniph]

16. A popkin

at least according to Roland of Gilead.

[redqueen]

20. Used to call it a hero... now a sub (because of subway)

Is food discussed every day here? This is really cruel to those of us who skip lunch... I'm soooooooooo hungry!

[Jack_Dawson]

21. What the hell is a "Hoagie"???

Signed,

-Native Californian

[Avalux]

23. A Hoagie

Is what it's called in western PA where I grew up - but I have no clue what the word means. :shrug:

[Avalux]

22. It's a HOAGIE!

What's wrong with everybody? :crazy:

[bookman]

25. Now..

..that I'm in Texas it's a po boy. I usually called it a sub, sometimes a hoagie. I've heard New Englanders call it a grinder.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. Grinder or Sub

'grindah' is a common Boston term, but I've always called them subs.