What's the real name for a big sandwich?

[jpowers]

Subject says it all

 

[duke o' york]

I have to say hoagie just because it's such a great word but otherwise I don't really care. Big sandwich is good enough for me but if different restaurant chains want to call lots of filling between two chunks of bread something else then as long as I can understand what I'm about to get I'm happy. I thought a sub was a sarnie between the two halves of a French stick or bread like that.

 

[Juize]

I have never seen sandwich in real nature, so I don't any other word than "Sandwich".

 

[baseballtwin86]

I had a steak sub for dinner last night. It was really good. I have hearf some of those other terms before, but people mainly call them subs around this area .

 

[Knight-Dragon]

I have never heard of those terms before. Around here, they're all sandwiches to me.

 

[pi8ch]

BTW: I hate american sandwiches...

They taste like they are called.... sand ... and nothing more...
(Once I was in a "Subway" - never again!)

 

[baseballtwin86]

Originally posted by pi8ch
BTW: I hate american sandwiches...

They taste like they are called.... sand ... and nothing more...
(Once I was in a "Subway" - never again!)

Some Subways are absolutely dusgusting. I have not eaten at a Subway for a long time. The tend to leave their food out way too long. I usually eat subs at a local place that serves them fresh. They have some awesome bread with this great sauce that is very spicy. Good steak too, can't have bad steak on a sub. My vies on the differences between a sandwich and a sub/hoagie/grinder/etc. is this:

Sandwich:

Note the two slices of bread, and the much shorter size.

Sub/Hoagie/Grinder

Note the long slices of bread that are sometimes connected together. Bread is much more of a baguette style.

 

[Vinc]

Sub.

Here in Quebec a big long sandwich (like what they sell at Subway) is called a sous-marin, wich means submarine in english.

 

[Richard III]

Well, the trouble with your poll is that it is the wrong question. A hoagie refers to a very specific sandwich with specific ingredients and a whole history to it. A hoagie can also be a sub, but a sub isn't necessarily a hoagie. I suspect that's the case with some of the other names on the list.

But in reference to sandwiches on long bread in general, yeah, it's a submarine sandwich, shorted to sub by the marketing genuises at Subway. Who I must admit have suddenly been on an infuriating drive to cut down the size of their portions.

R.III

 

[Jimcat]

I voted for "grinder" because that's what we called them in Connecticut when I was growing up.

But the correct answer is really "all of the above".

 

[Simon Darkshade]

A sandwich. Simple as that.
Maybe a roll, if that is what it is, but none of these fancy terms.

"I'm feeling a bit peckish. Baldrick!"
"Yes, my lord?"
"Bring me in a couple of pieces of bread with something in between them."
"Like what Gerald, Earl of Sandwich had the other day, my lord?"
"Yes, bring in a few rounds of Geralds."

 

[Perfection]

I call it a "Big Sandwich." Its descriptive easy to say and to the point

 

[Dralix]

Originally posted by Richard III
Well, the trouble with your poll is that it is the wrong question. A hoagie refers to a very specific sandwich with specific ingredients and a whole history to it. A hoagie can also be a sub, but a sub isn't necessarily a hoagie. I suspect that's the case with some of the other names on the list.

There's a place in Phoenix (could be a chain for all I know) called Uncle Sam's that has awesome hoagies and grinders. Their hoagies come in many different variants, with different types of meats. Take that same hoagie and toast it in the oven and they call it a grinder.


EDIT: IMHO, the proper name for a really big sandwich made on sandwich bread is a Dagwood

 

[docceh]

Over here we just call them Filled Baguettes.

or sandwiches !!

 

[Globber]

Just Sandwich is enough to get the point across. There is not point of seperating sandwiches into groups, except for burgers, I suppose. Anything else is just a "sandwich".

 

[floppa21]

You bastards... I read the posts, I looked at the pics, now I'm hungry as a mofo and it's only 8:10 am...

 

[pi8ch]

I have to admit that the pictures and the descriptions made me to think far better about sandwiches now

 

[Hitro]

I prefer Baguette!

 

[Juize]

I prefer Baguette!

I prefer rye-bread

 

[HotDog Fish]

I call a very big sandwich and manwich , but anyways I call 'em subs