It's time for the "Friday Food Debate" where we tackle some of the burning questions of the culinary world...LOL!
This week, the burning question is:
Apparently this is a regional thing, which we find fascinating. The question is, what do you call a long sandwich filled with meat, cheese, toppings and whatever condiments you like?
Sure it's technically a sandwich and different ingredients abound, but when they end up like this, depending on where you live, they can have a specific name. Do you call it a HERO? Or maybe you say give me a HOAGIE? Or perhaps, like we do here in the South, I want a SUB? In other areas of the South it's a PO-BOY. And in parts of the NorthEast it's also called a GRINDER.
EDITED: today to add two more names I completely forgot about but you all mentioned in the comments. Thank you!
So...which way do you say it?
Apparently this is a regional thing, which we find fascinating. The question is, what do you call a long sandwich filled with meat, cheese, toppings and whatever condiments you like?
Sure it's technically a sandwich and different ingredients abound, but when they end up like this, depending on where you live, they can have a specific name. Do you call it a HERO? Or maybe you say give me a HOAGIE? Or perhaps, like we do here in the South, I want a SUB? In other areas of the South it's a PO-BOY. And in parts of the NorthEast it's also called a GRINDER.
EDITED: today to add two more names I completely forgot about but you all mentioned in the comments. Thank you!
So...which way do you say it?
In NE Ohio we call it a sub!
ReplyDeleteWhen me and hubby first got married and living in Iowa we couldn't afford pork chops, hamburger meat, etc but did eat A lot of lunch meat and cheese sandwiches with a little lettuce and maybe sometimes a slice of tomato and used hot dog buns only because we could make 8 sandwiches from 1 package of buns and back then we called them 'Poorboy' sandwiches and if we where lucky enough, we had potato chips to go with.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Po'Boy in this part of the world! C'mon, 2 men! Just what kind of Houstonians are you? Gasp!;-)
ReplyDeleteGranted, I live a little bit N of you (where that big music pavilion is) but I lived inside the loop for much of my misspent youth, and even before we could buy them pre-made in all the local grocery stores, Antone's iconic sandwiches were always called po boys, just like in my original home town NOLA.
Only at interloping national chains do they have the brazen audacity to call 'em by regional names alien to us. Harumph!
Hoagies here in Pennsylvania!
ReplyDeleteWay Up here in Yankee territory we call those bad boys "Grinders" Yum!
ReplyDeletealways hoagies.
ReplyDeleteSub in our house.
ReplyDeleteHOAGIE! and if you call it anything else up here, WE KNOW you're not from philly! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm from MI and we call them subs.
ReplyDeleteHOAGIE from New Jersey!
ReplyDeleteUnlike Anne Marie, I call it a sub, I can't keep a straight face and say Hoagie. Sounds like it ought to be soggy or something, and who likes soggy bread? But what's interesting is in food stores or convenience shops they call them subs, but the church up the road sells them and the sign says Hoagie sale.
ReplyDeleteI call all of them Sub's, after all they are all the same EXCEPT for a 'Cuban', now that's a great sandwich. :-)
ReplyDeleteHere in central Texas we call them subs.
ReplyDeleteSubs here in SE Texas.
ReplyDeleteHere in Australia it's a salad roll! (A sandwich is only made between 2 slices of bread.)
ReplyDeleteSouthern Illinois here and I've always heard them referred to as subs.
ReplyDeleteIt was a sub in Washington state, Maryland, Illinois, and now, in Florida.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Sub here in MD.
ReplyDeleteSub in northern Indiana.
ReplyDeleteGosh, how do you come up with these food queries week after week? Here, in southern Ontario, Canada, it's a sub. I had no idea that the other names pertained to a sub! Belated congratulations on your anniversary.
ReplyDeleteHere in Rhode Island we call it a grinder.
ReplyDeleteI am voting with Mike. A sub is a sub unless it is a Cuban which is an entirely different sandwich!
ReplyDeleteSubs in South Africa
ReplyDeleteHoagies in PA. Maybe it's different "up state" but here nearer Philly it can only be a hoagie!
ReplyDeleteMary
Subs in NY when I was a kid and here in Oregon now.
ReplyDeleteLifelong Michigander, and almost overwhelmingly called subs here, but there is a place in the East Lansing area where I went to college - at MSU - which called them grinders.
ReplyDeleteDown in New Zealand its been called a filled roll for ages - although outside influences have been here for a few years .......
ReplyDeleteSubs in Al. My favorite is Quizno's.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin: we called them weird sandwiches because who the heck would use a brat bun instead of 2 slices of bread? Connecticut: Sub. Because Subway. Grinder if you kick it old school and/or are just being stubborn and cranky.
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