Joyce Fetteroll

Thought the word lovers might like this. We got a grinder (sub to
most of the US I think) and the bag it came in was labeled:

Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine

Just trying to communicate with everyone :-)

I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
where the others are used.

I think it's cool that the US isn't totally homogenous.

Joyce

Jana Smith

I've lived all over the US and have heard everyone of those terms used for a "long sandwich" :) Jana

Joyce Fetteroll <jfetteroll@...> wrote: Thought the word lovers might like this. We got a grinder (sub to
most of the US I think) and the bag it came in was labeled:

Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine

Just trying to communicate with everyone :-)

I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
where the others are used.

I think it's cool that the US isn't totally homogenous.

Joyce





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Ed Wendell

To me, in the Mid-West (IL & MO), a torpedo is the bomb / projectile the submarine shoots at others to sink them - it travels underwater - skimming the surface too. The Submarine is the "boat/ship" that goes underwater.

A hoagie is a sandwich - we don't call it that, I just know that ;) Every one around here calls it a sub sandwich.

Oh and a grinder is a machine used to grind things - we have one our son has been using to help make wooden swords.

I never realized others call the "underwater ship" a hoagie, grinder or torpedo.

Lisa


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From: Joyce Fetteroll



Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine

I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
where the others are used.

Joyce
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Nancy Wooton

On Nov 21, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Joyce Fetteroll wrote:

> I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
> where the others are used.

Sub in San Diego (figures, for a Navy town ;-)
Nancy

Kathleen Gehrke

--- In [email protected], Joyce Fetteroll
<jfetteroll@...> wrote:
>
> Thought the word lovers might like this. We got a grinder (sub to
> most of the US I think) and the bag it came in was labeled:
>
> Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine
>
> Just trying to communicate with everyone :-)
>


Recently in Great Falls Montana was a sign that said "FRESH HOMEMADE
GRINDERS"> I knew I had heard of a grinder before. I knew I should
know that it was.

I my unschooling fashion I kept asking people and eventually looked
it up. Then announced to everyone whom I had asked what a grinder
was. LOL

I grew up in California where it was a sub. and in Montana it is a
sub or a hoagie.

I am uncertain if the name grinder is really very attractive for such
a delicious sandwich.

Happy THANKSGIVING!
Kathleen

Sandra Dodd

-=-Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine

Just trying to communicate with everyone :-)

I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
where the others are used.-=-



Sub, in New Mexico, but sometimes they're just "sandwiches," as
they're hugely more common now (outside of homes) than anything on
small, square bread. And sometimes in homes as well, they're made.



Native locals would understand Hero sandwich and Hoagie, but probably
not torpedo or grinder.

Hoagie sounds nasty, though, and it's not used of food much that I've
ever heard except on TV. It sounds like hoik and stogie.



I think it's nice that someone has printed multi-dialectal sandwich
wrappers, though! <g>



Sandra

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MrsStranahan

You can get a Po' boy in Louisiana.

On Nov 21, 2007 9:01 AM, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:

> -=-Hero * Torpedo * Grinder * Hoagie * Submarine
>
>
> Just trying to communicate with everyone :-)
>
> I know grinder is used in Boston. And hoagie in Pittsburgh. Not sure
> where the others are used.-=-
>
> Sub, in New Mexico, but sometimes they're just "sandwiches," as
> they're hugely more common now (outside of homes) than anything on
> small, square bread. And sometimes in homes as well, they're made.
>
> Native locals would understand Hero sandwich and Hoagie, but probably
> not torpedo or grinder.
>
> Hoagie sounds nasty, though, and it's not used of food much that I've
> ever heard except on TV. It sounds like hoik and stogie.
>
> I think it's nice that someone has printed multi-dialectal sandwich
> wrappers, though! <g>
>
> Sandra
>
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>
>
>


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Ed Wendell

In my language a po' boy is ground beef and tomato sauce - much like a sloppy Joe.

Lisa



From: MrsStranahan


You can get a Po' boy in Louisiana.





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Pamela Sorooshian

These days, in Southern California, I don't think people younger than
40 or so use the word "subs." There are still some little independent
"Submarine Sandwiches" shops around, but when the teens/young adults
want to go eat, they don't say, "Let's go get subs." They do say,
"Let's go get sandwiches." Even when going to Subway, they'll refer
to "Subway Sandwiches," and don't call them "subs" or "submarine
sandwiches."

Quizno's calls their sandwiches "Subs" - I think they call them that
everywhere, including Boston! <G> But I remember not too long ago one
of the teenage kids with me asking, "Why do they call them subs?"

-pam

Sandra Dodd

-=-You can get a Po' boy in Louisiana.-=-

I would recognize that if someone asked me if I wanted to, from my
mom (a Texan) using that term.
My kids wouldn't know, I don't think.

Sandra

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Joyce Fetteroll

On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Sanguinegirl83@... wrote:

> What about a "Dagwood"? Or is that a different kind of sub?

Not even a sub. A multilayer sandwich named after Dagwood of the
Blondie comic strip:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagwood_sandwich

Joyce

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Sandra Dodd

-=-What about a "Dagwood"? Or is that a different kind of sub?-=-

That's for height, not length.

In the Blondie comics, her husband Dagwood used to make huge, tall
sandwiches he rarely got to eat because he'd be called away.

Sandra

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Robyn L. Coburn

<<<< >> What about a "Dagwood"? Or is that a different kind of sub?
>
> Not even a sub. A multilayer sandwich >>>

I always thought a "Hero" sandwich was like a dagwood, layered, rather than
a long roll like a sub, but it's included in the "Hoagies, etc" list.

Robyn L. Coburn