Quick question!

[apocalypsos]

You are a character born and raised in the suburbs just outside DC. (In Virginia, if we're being technical.)

What do you call this?

Comments

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

That's a sub.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's a hoagie to me, so I figured I'd ask. :)

*goes back to writing*

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

And I THINK looking at it, it's a veggie sub. Doesn't look like it has any meats. Subs are prefixed by their descriptor. So "Meatball sub" "Chicken Salad Sub" and so on. I'm guessing hoagie works the same way, but I'm not sure.

[dorei.livejournal.com]

It's a hoagie to me, too, but that's cuz I grew up in south jersey. I do hear them call them "subs" around here, tho, in Loudoun County and Fairfax County.

[achika-chan.livejournal.com]

It's a sub in the midwest, too, for future reference.

[mercymydarling.livejournal.com]

Sub. I lived in a few different suburbs of D.C. after living my entire life in Pennsylvania, and the first time I went into a Quizno's and ordered a "hoagie" I got a thousand weird and confused stares.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

And in case you were wondering, down here in north Florida, we also call 'em subs.

(I'd call it a sammich, but I'm a dork.)

[yud.livejournal.com]

As someone who grew up in Northern Virginia, I'd call that a sub.

[sabotabby]

Yummy.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. That, too. :)

[spn-snark.livejournal.com]

Sub. (Coming from NC, so take it with a grain of salt.)

[supesfan88.livejournal.com]

Just if yur ever curious, in my part of the Great WHITE North (Scarborough) its a Sub :)

[elecktrik.livejournal.com]

Yup, in good ol' British Columbia we'd call it a sub, too!

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Personally, I call it "something I never want to have to make ever again".

[elecktrik.livejournal.com]

Well, you're a special case. In all things.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. So's your dolphin!

[elecktrik.livejournal.com]

How dare you?!

[kimera.livejournal.com]

JRR Tolpheen made me do it.

[elecktrik.livejournal.com]

Stop spamming other people's LJs with your excuses :P

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

I miss Wawa hoagies. Subs are NOT the same. Hehe. Silly Californians - who also call it a sub.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Meatless, thus crap.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

Word.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Lunch :)

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

Sub sammich. Or lunch.
AKA grinder or gyro/hero.
Oh, wait. I'm not in the geographic area of inquiry

[ampersand.livejournal.com]

But that's not a gyro. This is a gyro. Gyros are Greek, made with gyro meat/lamb, tomatoes, onions, and cucumbers, with cream garlic sauce, and wrapped in a pita. A gyro is not remotely the same as a sub.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

om nom nom.
I've seen them in some areas where it's stated it's a hero/gyro sammich, yet not on the pita. Not at a Greek place, of course.

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm being subtly passive-aggressive by dropping this link, but really, it's because it's cool and I take every chance I get to show it to people.

Harvard Dialect Survey

The big maps aren't actually very helpful--there's a way to get state-by-state breakdowns on some of these questions, but I cannot latch onto it right now--but the resource is nice. :)

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

1. State-by-state breakdowns is the link at the top, labeled "

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1. State-by-state breakdowns is the link at the top, labeled "<a href="http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/states.html target="_blank">Breakdown by State</a>."

2. This is the most fascinating thing I've seen all day. Granted, it's the only thing I've seen all day, including an episode of Initial D I put on hold before I went to sleep, but still, I'm bookmarking this.

3. That 82i is an option is hilarious to me for some reason.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

When I was living in Jamaica and first started visiting the US East Coast, I heard 'em referred to by the full "submarine sandwich" on a number of occasions. Aside from the shape, I never did quite figure out where that nickname came from.

Everywhere other than NYC/NJ I've heard 'em called grinders, hoagies, and the abbreviated sub. THAT one I'd call impossible to eat with any degree of ease or grace.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

...and I now want a big ol' sub/grinder/hoagie. *sigh*

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'm from Connecticut, and we'd call it either a grinder or (in certain restaurants) a veggie sub. Grinder is the default, though. Meatball grinder, tuna grinder, hot grinder, pepperoni grinder.

[witchofthedogs.livejournal.com]

North of me (Delaware) they are hoagies (Philly, SE PA, New Jersey). Locally, they're subs. Unless you go to Wawa, where they are referred to as hoagies.

But that has what appears to be cucumbers (not pickles) on it, so I don't know what the fuck it is... No self-respecting sandwich maker around here would put cucumber on a sub OR a hoagie.

[loopychew.livejournal.com]

Central/Northern NJ here, and while I've heard it referred to a "hoagie" at times, I'd call it a sub. Then again, I've been out of the state for a decade, so.

[bailunrui.livejournal.com]

Sub. Then again, I'm from Maryland...

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

I'd just call it lunch.

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

It's a Sub



(natively from the Annapolis area)

[the-jackalope.livejournal.com]

A sub. Course that's the Maryland side of DC. But it's a sub.

[goddessleila.livejournal.com]

I've lived in both Maryland and Virginia, and that's definitely a sub. Or a grinder, if it's a hot sandwich.