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Title: Speaking of different terms for different things around the country...
Post by: 280plus on February 16, 2006, 09:02:47 AM

What do you call a sandwich on a long roll where you are? I know about 5 different names. I'm wondering how many different ways there are. Tell me your state if you don't mind. I don't want to mention the names I have till I hear yours.

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Post by: charby on February 16, 2006, 09:06:10 AM

Iowa- Sub (short for submarine) or Hoagie

a short sub sandwich has also been called a torpedo

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Post by: mtnbkr on February 16, 2006, 09:06:56 AM

hoagie.  I've called it that in NC, TN, and Va.

Chris

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Post by: cosine on February 16, 2006, 09:09:02 AM

Here in Wisconsin a sandwich on a long roll is called a sub.
(short for submarine sandwhich)

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Post by: The Rabbi on February 16, 2006, 09:10:12 AM

New York--Hero
Louisiana--Po' Boy
Philadelphia--Grinder
Nashville-Sub
Other places: hoagie
Mississippi: "Whut the hale's the matter with yew puttin' sumthin lahk that in yore mouth you must be sum kine a *Not nice word for gay men*."

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Post by: grampster on February 16, 2006, 09:21:18 AM

Michigan:  Sub (short for submarine)

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Post by: Stickjockey on February 16, 2006, 09:25:34 AM

Oregon- sub or just sandwich

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Post by: bermbuster on February 16, 2006, 09:52:39 AM

SC- sub

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Post by: cfabe on February 16, 2006, 09:52:55 AM

ohio - sub

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Post by: Sindawe on February 16, 2006, 10:11:27 AM

Colorado: Depends.  Cold or hot sliced meats on a long roll, a sub.  If it has a grilled or fried meat patty, its a hoagie.

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Mississippi: "Whut the hale's the matter with yew puttin' sumthin lahk that in yore mouth you must be sum kine a *Not nice word for gay men*."

Hmmm...I've never been called a peice of wood or a cigarette before. "D

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Post by: 280plus on February 16, 2006, 10:33:10 AM

Up here they're grinders or "Subs" moved in when Subway came around.. (CT) Rabbi got all the ones I know except I remember a guy from Philly who had absolutely no idea what a grinder was. He called it a Hoagie. You shoulda been there.

Cool, thanks for the replies!

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Post by: garrettwc on February 16, 2006, 11:09:14 AM

Same as Sindawe, in Indiana.

Have heard most of the other ones Rabbi used in some of the specialty sandwich places.

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Post by: Larry Ashcraft on February 16, 2006, 11:52:56 AM

Here, an Italian sausage sandwich is a "grinder".  All the others are Subs.

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Post by: crt360 on February 16, 2006, 12:31:57 PM

It's usually a sub around here.  But if it has catfish or barbeque in it, it's a po'boy.

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Post by: Balog on February 16, 2006, 12:39:48 PM

Sub or sandwich in Arizona.

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Post by: 280plus on February 16, 2006, 02:12:51 PM

So there I was. This guy had come up from Philly on the train to help me with a job. I dropped him off at the best deli around (Rein's - Vernon, CT) and go to the motel across the lot to get him a room. I get back to the deli and there's all these scared looking employees gathered together behind the counter staring at him with their mouths open and he's saying, "Doesn't anybody in here know what a HOAGIE IS?!?" It was a good thing I had spent some time in Scranton or I wouldn't have known either. So I had to explain grinder to him and hoagie to them.

I'm actually surprised to see some out west has heard or uses the term grinder. I thought it was a northeast thing only.



Then there was the guy I knew that had a different deli. he called it "My Hero" so the sign on the front was like this:

               My Hero
               Sixteen Inches

                     

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Post by: Waitone on February 16, 2006, 02:16:29 PM

SC  "sub" or "hoagie" or "sammich"

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Post by: 280plus on February 16, 2006, 02:23:01 PM

Then let's not leave out "sangwich". That might be a northeast one. I never heard sammich till I started goin' to Jersey.

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Post by: cosine on February 16, 2006, 02:29:54 PM

I first heard "sangwich" and "sammich" on Internet bulletins boards. I'll have to keep an eye out and see where the poster is from when they refer to a sandwich in that way.

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Post by: 280plus on February 16, 2006, 02:38:34 PM

Heh, My Hero. That place had an all you can eat spaghetti special. Each plate was a pound of spaghetti and whoever ate the most plates became the record holder and got their name put up on the wall. I could only get down three. My skinny 17 yo toothpick little brother got down FOUR!

LOL...

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Post by: Guest on February 16, 2006, 03:31:29 PM

We used to call them Hoagies out here in Seattle, but the introduction of "Subway" has pulled the term out of use and now they are called "subs" and they dont taste as good. You used to be able to get an absolute killer of a hot hoagie out here, not anymore :-(

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Post by: Ben on February 16, 2006, 04:56:19 PM

Subs in CA.

First time I heard "sammich" was from a guy from Mississippi.

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Post by: Capteddie on February 16, 2006, 10:19:31 PM

Down the Bayou it's a Po'Boy

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Post by: Nathaniel Firethorn on February 17, 2006, 12:34:20 AM

The sub/hoagie border is about at the Delaware state line.

- NF

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Post by: Dave Markowitz on February 17, 2006, 04:53:34 AM

Hoagies in Philly.

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Post by: Nathaniel Firethorn on February 17, 2006, 05:21:08 AM

Now, how about another hot-button issue: bags vs. sacks?

Or soda vs. pop?

- NF

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Post by: Ben on February 17, 2006, 05:22:12 AM

You mean soda vs. pop vs. coke, right?

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Post by: 280plus on February 17, 2006, 05:37:57 AM

I'm going to have to get a map of the US and plot all these.

soda...

bag...

How about grits / no grits - here is mostly no grits but you CAN find them here and there

or scrapple / no scrapple - here is no scrapple. I never heard of the stuff till I went to Joisey...still ain't never tried it...

 (CT)

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Post by: richyoung on February 17, 2006, 07:59:08 AM

OK/Texas - used to be "Po boy", now mostly "sub (-marine)" follwed by Po Boy and hoagie tied for a distant 2nd.

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Post by: bermbuster on February 17, 2006, 10:19:12 AM

Quote from: cosine

I first heard "sangwich" and "sammich" on Internet bulletins boards. I'll have to keep an eye out and see where the poster is from when they refer to a sandwich in that way.

Depends on whom I am around.  If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich.

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Post by: Waitone on February 17, 2006, 10:24:04 AM

Ever hear of "dope and nabs"?
or
"R-Oh-See and Moonpie"

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Post by: Iapetus on February 17, 2006, 11:15:13 AM

"Baguette" in England.

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Post by: Moondoggie on February 17, 2006, 12:27:14 PM

Nebraska...Sub.  The special comes with pop.  The goods go into a sack.

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Post by: crt360 on February 17, 2006, 12:58:55 PM

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If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich

That's what I think of as a sammich.  Two pieces of square $0.89 loaf bread with whatever you could find in the fridge stuck in between.

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Post by: 280plus on February 17, 2006, 01:21:09 PM

Unless it's a HERO sammich...or a SUB sammich

Baguette, the high end hippy type delis around here call them that. Baguette means big bucks in this neck of the woods and they probably come with bean sprouts and watercress...

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Post by: Declaration Day on February 17, 2006, 01:24:37 PM

I used to say "pop" until I started traveling.  In some places it's called "pop", in others it's called "soda", and I've been places where "Coke" is used as a generic term.

I went to Florida as a teenager and tried to order a large pop.  I got some strange looks!

"Soda" is recognized nationwide so that's what I call it now.

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Post by: bermbuster on February 17, 2006, 03:58:24 PM

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If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich

That's what I think of as a sammich.  Two pieces of square $0.89 loaf bread with whatever you could find in the fridge stuck in between.

Amen, Bro.

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Post by: 280plus on February 17, 2006, 07:33:31 PM

How about a "Dagwood"? I think a Dagwood can have any kind of bread but leans toward that whatever you have in the fridge idea. A little of everything.

Damn, if them Swedish meatballs I had tonite weren't haunting me so bad I'd go make me a sammich...