Malcom Reed's most recent video over on HowtoBBQRight is a grilled pork tenderloin sandwich, which he calls a grinder sandwich.
I had never heard this term! So I googled it and apparently it is regional name for what I all my life have called a sub sandwich. Taking a look at Wikipedia, it looks like there are several regional names for the same thing.
So, let's find out what you call this thing! (Poll answers sourced from Wikipedia)
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If someone said hoagie I would understand 100%, but to me it's a sub. Also to me a "grinder" is an oven-baked sub, hot and melty, such as pizza style or similar.
We eat the "Lenny’s Deli Grinder" at home often. Salami, cheddar and jack cheese, pepperonis (lots) lettuce, tomatoes, mustard a little mayo. The bun is pre-toasted then the salami goes on one side of the roll, cheese on the other. Broiled crisp. All other ingredients added cold. That is a grinder, to me.
^^^ This is how we roll in Chicago. We’d call that an "Italian Sub", and the exact same sandwich cooked in the oven would be a "Hot Oven Grinder" or "Italian Grinder".
Growing up in northern NJ, that would be a sub or a hero
Now that I live in Westchester county, NY, that is a wedge
If I go a few minutes north and head into CT, that is a grinder
So that type of sandwich has three different names within about 25 miles.
I voted sub because thats generally what i call them but living in the northeast and loving wawa, i occasionally call them hoagies since thats what they are called at wawa.
I can't vote... I've lived so many places, both US coasts and multiple countries in Europe... almost all of them (and some not in the poll) are correct to me.
Never heard of a Spuckie, and never heard 'em called an Italian Sammy though. However, I am familiar with a Hot Italian, but this wouldn't meet that since it's not Italian cuts, not melted, and has lettuce?
Being raised a northern New Jersey guy, I'd call it a Hero. But when I see any sandwich stacked high I call it a Dagwood, after Dagwood Bumstead, the character in the Blondie cartoons who would make outrageous sandwiches during his midnight refrigerator raids.
What people call this kind of sandwich is one of the big regional American English discriminators that linguists have used to distinguish dialects. Out in California when I was growing up, we'd call these a sub sandwich.
I think we were around Niagra Falls (Canadian side) and stopped to eat. I was excited to see they had a beef on weck sandwich so I could try one for the first time. The server comes over about 5 minutes after we ordered and said they we're out of the kummelweck rolls but still had a delicious bread they could make it with. WTF was the first thing that went through my mind, but I managed to keep that from coming out of my mouth. Anyway, I still can't say I've had a beef on weck.
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