What Do You Call It in Your Neighborhood?

[kozmic]

I've been to or lived in places where all of those have been used. You just gotta go with the flow and use the local lingo or go hungry! Along with soda, pop, phosphate or just diet to get something to drink.

Hey! Whaddaya gotta do to get a sammie and seltza 'round heeere anyway?

 

[Alnamvet68]

be careful calling anything a meat sandwich. Youtube Harold and Kumar and meat sandwich, if you are not easily offended

That is some hilarious ****; Escape from GITMO made me spit up my Evans Bourbon. No mayo for me on any of my sandwiches.

 

[rwsmith]

The only one I've seen in these parts

The only one around here is a 'sub' and maybe a long time ago there were a few hoagies and fewer po' boys which I think are pretty much in Louisianna.

There was a chain of subs called 'Blimpies'.

Grinder is well known but not used here in SC.

I nearly always get the 'Spicy Italian' at Subway which is a lot like you describe.

There was a guy in Columbia, SC that made the news and was a Subway's poster boy because he lost something like 200 lb. (I think even more) eating nothing but Subway's subs.

Maybe I should start eating more subs.

 

[Arik]

Im in Philly so you know what we have!?! Philly cheese steaks baby!!! Yea!!! Regular sub roll with chopped steak, fried onions, hot peppers, cheddar cheese (cheese wiz). Only acceptable from Pat's and Geno's with Prince's and Jim's being acceptable substitutes

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[rwsmith]

Around here a "Hero" is actually a Gyro (pronounced "Yerro"), a Greek sandwich.


I prefer baloney, fried extra crisp!

Gyro - lamb and beef..... yum Never knew about it until I was an adult.

FRIED BOLOGNA - haven't had that in years.

About 20 years ago we started to get a lot of Middle Eastern food around here......Nice addition

The ONLY ethnic cuisine we had around here until I was grown was Italian. By 1980 there was a Chinese restaurant every mile. Then there were a few Greek places. The Mexican Restaurants. We still don't have the greatest variety in the world.

 

[wetdog]

On an Italian roll that's a Hoagie here. Then of course there are the cheese steaks mentioned above.

 

[Old TexMex]

Lo sabia yo....te gustas los huevos de los rancheros.

Estas loco, ese.

 

[gregintenn]

Around here it's a sammich.

The same in Tennessee.

 

[Alnamvet68]

Estas loco, ese.

View attachment 109835 LOL

 

[A10]

No hablo espanol mi amigos,and we calls 'em subs up thisaway. And in the neighborhood I grew up in, sayin' dago would get ya cut....

 

[radar1972]

All the sandwich shops and grocery delis around here advertise them as subs.

But as already mentioned by other Georgia boys, we call it a sammich!

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Here in Central NJ, a sub/submarine. IIRC it's hero in NYC, hoagie in Philadelphia. "Grinder" is New England, some years ago a Greek family opened a restaurant here in town, the marquee read "grinders", I said "You're from New England?", the man asked "How can you tell?". They changed the sign to localspeak soon after. I vaguely recall from my youth in Vermont that a sub was cold cuts, a torpedo was hot-meatballs, sausage, etc.

 

[Sprefix]

Grandmas' "roskie burger"

Even in hot weather, my family eats hot food. Our sammichs were usually a large greasy all natural burger with all the trimmings on it. Heavy lettuce and condiments of your choice. It was the THICK fresh oninon that made it grandmas' awesome "roskie burger". Usually the bread was grease-soaked before the "roskie" was done. These were always good, but were the best when she sent them with us on the boat for a days' fishing.

 

[Frank46]

Having spent about 50 years in NYC and Long Island we always called them hero's. Carl's Dairy in Astoria Queens is/was run by an Italian family. Sausage hero, meatball hero, roast beef hero, ham and eggs hero. And the list goes on. Fresh cooked every day and at luch time never could get a parking space so would keep driving the truck around the block while the other guy got the order filled. And on the same block the Greek place with gyro's yum, yum. Frank

 

[Hansli]

Wedge if it is meatball on Italian bread, otherwise hero. Sliced bread of any kind relegates it to sandwich.