Author Topic: Speaking of different terms for different things around the country... (Read 3586 times)

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.

Cheesy

charby · « **Reply #1 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

mtnbkr · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2006, 09:06:56 AM »

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

Chris

cosine · « **Reply #3 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)

The Rabbi · « **Reply #4 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*."

grampster · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2006, 09:21:18 AM »

Michigan: Sub (short for submarine)

Stickjockey · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2006, 09:25:34 AM »

Oregon- sub or just sandwich

bermbuster · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2006, 09:52:39 AM »

SC- sub

cfabe · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2006, 09:52:55 AM »

ohio - sub

Sindawe · « **Reply #9 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

280plus · « **Reply #10 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!

Cheesy

garrettwc · « **Reply #11 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.

Larry Ashcraft · « **Reply #12 on:** February 16, 2006, 11:52:56 AM »

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

crt360 · « **Reply #13 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.

Balog · « **Reply #14 on:** February 16, 2006, 12:39:48 PM »

Sub or sandwich in Arizona.

280plus · « **Reply #15 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.

Cheesy

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

shocked

Waitone · « **Reply #16 on:** February 16, 2006, 02:16:29 PM »

SC "sub" or "hoagie" or "sammich"

280plus · « **Reply #17 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.

cosine · « **Reply #18 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.

280plus · « **Reply #19 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...

Guest · « **Reply #20 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 :-(

Ben · « **Reply #21 on:** February 16, 2006, 04:56:19 PM »

Subs in CA.

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

Capteddie · « **Reply #22 on:** February 16, 2006, 10:19:31 PM »

Down the Bayou it's a Po'Boy

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #23 on:** February 17, 2006, 12:34:20 AM »

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

- NF

Dave Markowitz · « **Reply #24 on:** February 17, 2006, 04:53:34 AM »

Hoagies in Philly.

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Author Topic: Speaking of different terms for different things around the country... (Read 3586 times)

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