What do you call it?

[Guest jtronx]

Whenever I say I'm going out for an eggplant grinder, my girlfriend looks at me like I'm crazy (which is another point entirely).

I guess such a term, common here in CT, is completely unknown in SC, where she's from.

What do you call 'em where you are, and what do you get on them? Like I said before, I'm a mark for an eggplant parm grinder.

 

 

I'm using the definition:

 

... a popular sandwich made by splitting a long, torpedo-shaped roll in half lengthwise and filling it with some or all of these: cold cuts, sausage, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and other condiments.

(from The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, 1993)

[Guest razazteca]

I have never heard of the names Wegde, Torpedo, Grinder used as sandwiches. Are these names from the East Coast, also?

 

I always refered a big sandwish as a Sub

[Guest Mr. Slim Citrus]

I pretty much always ask for stuff by name; when I'm at work, and I send the NUB to Subway for a food run, I tell her to get me a foot-long meatball sandwich, with provolone. It would never occur to me that she wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

sub normally hero is like a 6 ft sandwich IMO

[Guest jimmy no nose]

Hoagie usually. Depends on what the restaurant or whatever wants me to call it.

[Guest TUS_02]

As a resident of CT... I have to agree that it's the commonplace to call it a grinder. Either that or Sub. Though I sometimes catch myself calling it a hoagie

[Guest MaxPower27]

Being from MA, it wasn't grinder, it was "Grind-ah". I call it a sub, as in, "Man, I would totally kill for a steak and cheese sub about now."

 

I'm not offended by grinder, or hoagie. I never heard "wedge" or "torpedo" for a sandwich. I know you can use torpedo bread.

[Guest jtronx]

sub normally hero is like a 6 ft sandwich IMO

 

now, to me a giant sandwich of this type is a 'party sub.'

[Guest TheDames7]

You know, its funny. I have friends in CT and I was there this weekend. I had never heard of them called grinders until this weekend. Hell, its even called grinders on the plastic when you buy them in bulk!

 

Me, I call them subs.

 

Dames

[Guest NoCalMike]

Hoagies and Grinders, Hoagies and Grinders.....navy beans, navy beans...........SLOPPY JOE, SLOP SLOPPY JOE..........

 

Adam Sandler was the shit~!

[Guest AM The Kid]

Subs...or sandwich.

[Guest hardyz1]

I work in a little shop that sells these sandwiches here in central PA. Most people use hoagie or sub. Grinders at our shop are baked subs/hoagies.

[Guest dreamer420]

sub

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Us Philly area peeps call them "hoagies".

 

I've *never* heard the terms "poor boy" or "wedge" or "torpedo".

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

Where on the list is "baguette"?!

[Guest RetroRob215]

When I think of a sub I think of a HUGE party sandwich. I'll stick to hero.

[Guest Kingpk]

I call them either grinders or subs.

 

I gotta ask this: Where does "hoagie" come from anyway? Torpedo and sub I understand, hoagie I don't.

[Guest TheDames7]

The only time I'd ever heard the term "hoagie" used other than in this thread was on The Cosby Show. They were supposedly located in the Washington D.C area, so maybe thats just the slang of the area.

 

Dames

[Guest Some Guy]

Where on the list is "baguette"?!

That's French Bread, not a sandwhich.

 

It's "sub" here.

[Guest Razor Roman]

IT's a sub. I guess that because I'm Italian and from the NYC area.