I’m going over to a friend’s house in about 30 minutes. He lives Middletown, and while, yes, they have new neighborhoods there, it’s still the f’ing middle of nowhere with nothing to do.
Hmmmm…it appears this may not be true.
I took a quick poll tonight of 7 people from various parts of northern Delaware. All of them are more likely to call them subs. I then looked up the menus of two very popular deli’s (one just south of the PA/DE state line) and both had them listed as “subs” on the menu.
I then looked up a DelCo menu, and it had them listed as hoagies.
Looks like sphere’s theory just got torpedoed.
I’m guessing som form of “holy” (San/Santa/Sankt/Saint).
Here’s my favorite map of the world: the globe according to fish 
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Please have this map expanded to include the terms subs, heroes, grinders, and torpedoes.
Went down a rabbit hole. The NYT dialect survey and map is the most popular (probably clicks) NYT has. It was created by an intern who was hired after creating an earlier version.
sphere knows of what he speaks.
So nobody in the north east calls them subs?
Bunch of weirdos.
Where I grew up in Maine they were called Italians or subs.
Yeah this has roused my interest. We call them subs but then again I’m from away. I feel like I need to go into shops now that make subs and see what they call them.
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The book he published is at my library. Guess I gotta walk 2 blocks and get it… That’s a good use of my afternoon 
This place was a local institution in my day.
No wonder their country is falling apart.
We lived in CT until I was 11; my dad eventually moved back up there
Whenever my brothers would visit, they would bring home “grinders” from this one specific place in Hartford
When dad passed, that kinda stopped
Recently, one of them was up at UConn for something and asked our cousins there, if the place was still open. The cousins had other options, which I addressed in our chat
"This is like a South Philly convo “hey, the place I liked … are they still open?”
“You don’t wanna go THERE, Go HERE!!!”
“Nah, they’re just OK; what you want is …”
“Fuggedaboutit, THIS is where ya go”
“Just answer his question, please?”
LOL
Let us not dismiss such hybrids as “Cheesesteak hoagie”