Is there any difference between a hoagie and a sub?

Question

Where I grew up we called them Hoagies ( I was in the band and we sold them to raise money), and out here in LA they are called Subs. Other places, they are called Grinders. Is there really any difference, or are they all the same thing?

Answer 1

Nope. It's just regional dialect, due to lingual diffusion.

Answer 2

The hoagie is the term for a submarine sandwich in a region including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and parts of New York. It generally consists of an elongated roll (called a "hoagie roll", similar in shape to a baguette), and a selection of cold luncheon meats and condiments: cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, sweet or hot peppers, oregano, oil or mayonnaise. Toasted hoagies are known as 'grinders'.

A submarine sandwich (or just submarine where context would exclude the sea vessel, or even just sub) is any of various sandwiches made on a long roll (usually at least 12" long by 3 " wide) or baguette (called "French bread" or a "submarine roll" in the U.S.) , so called because of its shape. The contents typically include meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and various condiments, sauces or dressings.

The term is believed by some to have originated in a restaurant in Scollay Square in Boston, Massachusetts at the beginning of World War II. The sandwich was created to entice the large numbers of navy servicemen stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The bread was a smaller specially baked baguette intended to be similar to the hull of the submarines it was named after[1].

Answer 3

As far as I know, hoagies, subs, heros, and grinders are all terms for the same thing.

Growing up (in the east) I equated a hoagie with including baloney in it - not sure why - but as I said, that, and a sub, and a hero, and a grinder are all the same thing, baloney notwithstanding.

Answer 4

probably the same....they taste the same...he he he....anyways, like all kinds of sandwiches...