The bomber is from Texas, but we already knew that.

It's called a wedge.

I live in New York, the terminolgoy switches from shop to shop. So long as you yell out at least one of them you're always set. Some areas people have no clue there are other terms, I've had trouble with that. Or ordering a coke and getting a sprite... that's just silly. You have to explictly order a cola in some states.

In my lifetime, I have had both a frappe and a cabinet.

In South Florida it's called a Cuban Sandwich

Would you like soda or pop with that? (pops)

it's sub and hoagie here. but they're two different sandwiches. subs are usually cold, hoagies usually served hot. subs can be pretty much anything, hoagies are usually beef with cheese and vegetables.

I call them "sandwiches".

Small wonder I've always called them subs. Just about everywhere I've lived they've usually been called subs, and I've been to a lot of places in this country.

Although I have encountered most of the other names at one time or another ;)

flip_flop: In South Florida it's called a Cuban Sandwich


Cuban sandwich seems to be a specific type though, I've always seen it have basically the same thing in it if it's called a cuban sandwich. Same thing with italian sandwich, always seems to have the same stuff in it and seems to be the name of that particular type of sandwich rather than a general term for a long piece of bread cut open and filled with stuff.

Subs here in Milwaukee. And now we have Suburpia back, so we got that goin for us, which is nice.

Who's the cartographic idiot that mapped this data using point symbols? This data should be derived per capita and presented as a choropleth map.

/Oh...and it's called a sub

I know subs and hoagies are the same thing, but "Cuban Sandwiches" and "Poeboys" (poor boys) are specific recipes.

I've always imagined:

Subway sandwich: to be a rather large, overstuffed cold confection. Interchangable with the word Hero.

Hoagie: a hot stuffed sandwich.

Poor Boy: a smaller, less stuffed sandwhich that was often made out of whatever was leftover at the deli and they needed to get rid of it before it spoiled. Kinda the grab bag of sandwiches.

if( NewOrleans )
   Po'boy == sub;

Not a very original idea -- I remember this being done for soda, pop, etc.

Fool!! This was the perfect time to use the Hero tag.

wow man! in the places where lots of people live, they have names for sandwiches.

Wedgies?

I'm from Philly.

It's called a hoagie, and absolutely nothing else.

the "poorboy" or po'boy as its actually known originated in New Orleansm which I guess the graph shows

No two ways about it. Its a damn grinder.

Hummm, i work on the same floor at uwm as the guy who made this...

Aentisanity: Fool!! This was the perfect time to use the Hero tag.

Just brilliant!

Isoglosses are always fascinating.

Mr. Richard Cranium

I'm sure that you meant to write "..idiot that mapped these data..."

Thus quoth Homer Simpson: "I want to visit strange, exotic malls. I'm sick of eating hoagies. I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?"

There's some place in either Wisconsin or downstate Illinois that makes the best meatball grinders I've ever had, with sliced meatballs. Starts with an M. I guess that doesn't really conform to the study, but I'm really hungry right now, so that was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw grinders.

/Hasn't eaten all day yet.

You know, the sandwich is named after an English lord, the fourth Earl of Sanwich (1718-1792). He wanted a snack he could pick up and eat while playing poker or whatever the hell they played back then. Smart guy.

/Imagine if the Earl of Sandwich had invented something else, like the crapper.
//or worse, if Thomas Crapper had invented sandwiches....
///Whoa.

Interesting that "poor boy" is most popular along the Gulf Coast.

Always been grinders in Massachusetts, yet the map does not accurately relect this..

"Grinders

The name Grinder was named after the men who worked the ship building yards of New Bedford, Massachusetts during WWII.

Local Italian vendors would set up shop near these ship yards and build overstuffed sandwiches to sell to the men who ground the hot iron pegs used in the construction of our war ships. They were known as The Grinders. These oversized sandwiches made on fresh homemade Italian Loaves came to be known as a Grinder.

Grinder origin

It's always been a hoagie to me. Subs are more popular now too. I only had my first grinder and wedgie a few months ago. Poorboys and heroes do not exist.

/soda

In my mind: cold cut = sub. Subs can be hot/toasted, but are always long, skinny sandwiches. Toasted on a slightly "flatter" style bread = grinder. Hero = that Greek creation in pita form. Po' boys are smaller, squarish sandwiches, usuall hot. A baguette requires a bagel. An Italian sandwich can be any of the above, as long as it has certain meats.

/WTF is a "sarney"
//Bombers are airplanes, duh
///I go to school at this place (UWM)
////not surprised that somebody there would do this

the weirder survey would be for what we here in Michigan call a "drinking fountain". In Wisconin it is referred to as a bubbler. Anyone know of any other commonly used terms for it in the US?

flip_flop- In South Florida it's called a Cuban Sandwich

Funny, considering that the Cuban sandwich was invented for the cigar factory workers in Tampa.

It's a sub. That's it

/from Chicago, home of the Subway ass kicking Mr Submarine

poorboys ftw

It's an Italian sandwich 'round here. Or an "Eye-talian" if you're an old fart.

"I have no word for this."

WTF? Are you from this planet?

sluflyer: Hero = that Greek creation in pita form.

That's confused with a Gyro. Often pronounced Yiro.

Kentucky: We have Poor Boys/Po' boys at the Drive in, Grinders and Hogies as well as Subs in chain stores, and a mish-mash of Mom and Pop creations. Go figure.

Meh. I just call it a samich.

Chicago's original submarine, Mr. Submarine

/ With pop

George Bush doesn't care about people who say "poor boy."

Just so long as you don't call it a "sangwich"

All this study shows me is that a lot of people live in the Mid-Atlantic/New England states and also the coast of California.

Or ordering a coke and getting a sprite... that's just silly. You have to explictly order a cola in some states.

I have never had that happen to me. Ever.

If I ask for a Coke, someone may say, "What kind do you want," but I've never had anyone bring me Sprite when I ask for a coke.

I do call "pop" Coke, but a Coke is a Coke.

The Cuban sandwich is tasty, at least as a hero from the deli across the street from work.

/Ham, pork, pickle, swiss cheese... on a hoagie sandwich.
//Calls them hoagies.
///More often calls them "delicious"

It's a sammich, dammit!

in Novato CA, we got Marios Italian Subs. best around