Inspired by the soda vs. pop thread, what do you folks call these sandwiches?

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by Anonymous

reply 27

December 21, 2020 8:48 PM

Seems to be geographical like soda/pop

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December 20, 2020 1:46 PM

It depends on what was in it! I grew up in CT. We would get at the local pizzeria - or mom would make at home - a “meatball grinder”. But we also would get a “Pete’s sub” (this evolved into Subway in the following decades). Now I live in NYC and would ask for whatever filling “on a hero”.

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December 20, 2020 2:25 PM

I was thinking about this the other day, mainly how it was regional, but due to the national chain of Subway the sub will win out and dominate. I think there’s also a Mike Subs gaining national status that will help carry it over the finish line. One hundred years from now the rest will be quaint memories and in need of the OED for most to recall.

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reply 6

December 20, 2020 3:13 PM

Hero or sub. Never head of calling them a grinder.

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reply 7

December 20, 2020 3:16 PM

I picked up some grinders on my way back from the package store.

by Anonymous

reply 8

December 20, 2020 3:16 PM

The only Grinders I ever heard about were a meat grinder, organ grinder and the hookup site. Maybe those three are the same?

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reply 9

December 20, 2020 3:37 PM

It’s interesting, I don’t know about other places, but in Pennsylvania there was quite an overlap of all these names with grinder perhaps being the least familiar, but with much allusion to New Jersey when mentioned.

by Anonymous

reply 10

December 20, 2020 4:00 PM

Like on the app, 7+ inches is ideal. Under 6 is unacceptable.

by Anonymous

reply 11

December 20, 2020 4:12 PM

I thought a sub was a hot sandwich on a roll and a hoagie was a cold sandwich on a roll with a multitude of different meats.

No idea what a hero or a grinder is. Grinder sounds very unappetizing.

by Anonymous

reply 12

December 20, 2020 4:15 PM

Grinder is the word that is used in New England.

by Anonymous

reply 13

December 20, 2020 5:03 PM

In New England it's called a grinder. Liquor stores are called package stores. Snowstorms are called Nor'Easters.

by Anonymous

reply 15

December 20, 2020 9:06 PM

[quote]I thought a sub was a hot sandwich on a roll and a hoagie was a cold sandwich on a roll with a multitude of different meats.

I grew up in New Jersey, where a sub was the cold sandwich you describe, r12. Then I moved to Pittsburgh, where they bake that same sandwich in a pizza oven and call it a hoagie.

by Anonymous

reply 16

December 20, 2020 9:35 PM

I’m from Brooklyn and consider subs cold and heros hot (ham sub/veal parm hero).

by Anonymous

reply 17

December 21, 2020 1:50 AM

this is fucking confusing. they are subs....no matter if they are hot or not. big long sandwiches. like subways. i did live in the east coast and my mom called them hoagies but i think that's a regional term downstate in PA. NEVER heard the term grinder...

by Anonymous

reply 18

December 21, 2020 7:09 AM

I’ll take a hero and a soda.

by Anonymous

reply 19

December 21, 2020 7:15 AM

I thought a grinder was pretty much a sub that is put through the oven like a pizza to melt the cheese. I think of most subs as cold. Hero? I don't know what the fuck that is.

by Anonymous

reply 21

December 21, 2020 1:46 PM

A hero ain’t nothin’ but a sandwich

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reply 22

December 21, 2020 1:51 PM

If it ain't a hoagie, it's trash.

by Anonymous

reply 23

December 21, 2020 1:58 PM

But a meatball sub or a chicken parm sub are heated.

by Anonymous

reply 24

December 21, 2020 6:10 PM

Hero is mainly New York, I think. Sub makes the most sense due to the shape and size of the bun. Grinder and Hoagie are also regionalisms which don't seem to make any sense.

A Hero sandwich is #2 - because of the size of the sandwich - it's for a hero. Ok - I get it. But what the hell is a grinder? A hoagie?

by Anonymous

reply 25

December 21, 2020 6:27 PM

A grinder is the same thing as a hero or hoagie. It's a term that's used in New England for both hot and cold varieties. When I'm not in New England and say "grinder" nobody knows WTF I'm talking about.

The best, though, is "package store," which is what we call liquor stores. I'll never forget when I lived in LA and announced at a party I was going to make a "packie run" everybody in the room thought that I was being racist against Pakistanis. I had to quickly explain what I actually meant.

by Anonymous

reply 26

December 21, 2020 8:44 PM