Some of you out there are calling me a hero

Opinicus

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Apr 13, 2015, 3:39:14 PM4/13/15

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"Some of you out there are calling me a hero; others are calling me a
hoagie; those of you from Connecticut are calling me a grinder."

(Peter Griffin, "Family Guy 1314 #jolo")

--
Bob
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gloria p

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Apr 14, 2015, 9:02:59 PM4/14/15

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On 4/13/2015 1:39 PM, Opinicus wrote:
> "Some of you out there are calling me a hero; others are calling me a
> hoagie; those of you from Connecticut are calling me a grinder."
>
> (Peter Griffin, "Family Guy 1314 #jolo")
>

Also heard in New England: torpedo or sub(marine).

gp

pltrgyst

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Apr 15, 2015, 9:02:16 AM4/15/15

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On 4/14/15 9:02 PM, gloria p wrote:

>
> Also heard in New England: torpedo or sub(marine).

I believe that "sub" is centered on New York and New Jersey -- as in
"Tastee Sub Shop", in Edison, NJ, visited by several presidents.

-- Larry

Jack Campin

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Apr 15, 2015, 9:09:42 AM4/15/15

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>> Also heard in New England: torpedo or sub(marine).
> I believe that "sub" is centered on New York and New Jersey -- as in
> "Tastee Sub Shop", in Edison, NJ, visited by several presidents.

Isn't "submarine" the usual word in Pittsburgh too?

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Brooklyn1

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Apr 15, 2015, 12:43:37 PM4/15/15

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pltrgyst wrote:
>gloria p wrote:
>
>> Also heard in New England: torpedo or sub(marine).
>
>I believe that "sub" is centered on New York and New Jersey -- as in
>"Tastee Sub Shop", in Edison, NJ, visited by several presidents.

In NYC and surrounding areas it's "Hero". Other nomenclature is
typical for other parts of NYS.

gloria p

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Apr 15, 2015, 1:30:14 PM4/15/15

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Sub is also common in RI westward to Groton-New London, Ct and beyond.

Groton is the home of General Dynamics Electric Boat Division where for
generations they built, you guessed it, submarines. It was the major
employer in the area.

gloria p

Tony Cooper

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Apr 16, 2015, 1:26:36 AM4/16/15

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It's difficult for me to think of a term being "centered" in any area
when there are 43,800 Subway franchise locations in 109 different
countries and are part of a company that does national advertising in
the US. Their product is a "sub".
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando FL

Bill McCray

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Apr 16, 2015, 9:53:17 AM4/16/15

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I was thinking that, too, Tony. Sub is probably the most common term
here in central Kentucky.

Bill in Kentucky

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Nunya Bidnits

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Apr 17, 2015, 10:13:21 PM4/17/15

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"Tony Cooper" wrote in message
news:tphuiatmgmt31b62b...@4ax.com...

>
>It's difficult for me to think of a term being "centered" in
>any area
>when there are 43,800 Subway franchise locations in 109
>different
>countries and are part of a company that does national
>advertising in
>the US. Their product is a "sub".

In Kansas City a grinder is an Italian roll stuffed with cheese
and/or sausage or meatballs plus some nice sauce. It's hollowed
out, stuffed, and toasted. Delicious. It was popularized by a
restaurant called Mario's but others still serve a version of it
as well. I was surprised when I first came across a sub called
a grinder.

The overstuffed compost sandwiches are called hoagies or of
course subs around here IME. I agree that the Subway brand has
changed the language through market saturation.

MartyB

W. Lohman

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Apr 18, 2015, 12:39:42 AM4/18/15

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Your local community has been the death knell of anything not grossly
over-sauced with sweet tomato castsup barf and a pariah of real BBQ - in
many ways the antithesis of real smoked meats and the religion of true
dry rub.

May you some day have fruit wood trees that do not defile you.

Or at least the ability not to drown your charred ends in whatever
saucepan debility defines the day.

Nunya Bidnits

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Apr 18, 2015, 12:52:08 PM4/18/15

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"W. Lohman" aka my stalker bitch, frothed madly about:

>in many ways the antithesis of real smoked meats and the
>religion of true dry rub.

I have a wall full of awards, lots of prize money, and I enjoy
the camaraderie, while you can only sling shit, my lonely bitch.
And there's more quality dry rub in the house right now that you
will ever own in your pathetic lifetime.

I compete, sometimes I win, and I always enjoy the food and good
company, while all you can do is sit in filth and stalk people
who are better than you. That's who you are.
Ahhhhhhhhhhahahaaaaaaaaaa.....

>Or at least the ability not to drown your charred ends in
>whatever saucepan debility defines the day.

I don't sauce burnt ends, my clueless wannabe-stalker bitch.

Go lay down somewhere.

W. Lohman

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Apr 18, 2015, 1:53:38 PM4/18/15

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On 4/18/2015 10:52 AM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
> "W. Lohman" aka my stalker bitch, frothed madly about:
>
>> in many ways the antithesis of real smoked meats and the religion of
>> true dry rub.
>
> I have a wall full of awards,

Right...all from similarly souce-slobbering morons no doubt...

> lots of prize money,

Sure ya do...enough to buy more souce and mess food up again...

> and I enjoy the camaraderie,

Of similar low-lifes, of course...

> while you can only sling shit, my lonely bitch.

I would sling your shitty Q straight into a dumpster, yes...

> And there's
> more quality dry rub in the house right now that you will ever own in
> your pathetic lifetime.

Mbwahahahahaa!!!

All waiting to be glopped over by sticky tomato-based BBQ diarrhea!

> I compete,

Food isn't a competition, fool.

> sometimes I win,

Which is the ultimate loss.

> and I always enjoy the food and good
> company,

I know you really want us to believe that.

> while all you can do is sit in filth and stalk people who are
> better than you. That's who you are. Ahhhhhhhhhhahahaaaaaaaaaa.....

Says the uselessnet know-it-all, it is to laugh!

>> Or at least the ability not to drown your charred ends in whatever
>> saucepan debility defines the day.
>
> I don't sauce burnt ends, my clueless wannabe-stalker bitch.

Must be the only thing you haven't dumped doggy doo doo souce on, ll.

> Go lay down somewhere.

I've layed a smackdown on ya, enjoy, souce fool.

Nunya Bidnits

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Apr 18, 2015, 2:33:21 PM4/18/15

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"W. Lohman" aka my bitch, frothed some
news:mgu5l5$33h$1...@dont-email.me...

>I know you really want us to believe that.

Who are "us", my lonely stalker bitch?

lol

W. Lohman

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Apr 18, 2015, 2:40:12 PM4/18/15

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Souce got to ya early, greaseball?

micky

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Apr 22, 2015, 7:43:33 PM4/22/15

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:43:37 -0400, Brooklyn1 <grave...@verizon.net>
wrote:

>pltrgyst wrote:
>>gloria p wrote:
>>
>>> Also heard in New England: torpedo or sub(marine).
>>
>>I believe that "sub" is centered on New York and New Jersey -- as in
>>"Tastee Sub Shop", in Edison, NJ, visited by several presidents.
>
>In NYC and surrounding areas it's "Hero".

Is hero derived from gyro, which is iiuc pronounced in Greek very much
liike hero in English?

Gyro refers to lamb (usually) rotating on a spit in front of or above
the fire, as in gyrate. .

micky

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Apr 22, 2015, 7:49:06 PM4/22/15

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But all those were opened decades after "sub" meant sandwich. And
more importantly, pft is talking about sub, the sandwich, which has imo
nothing to do with "subway".

Indianapolis had for a long time Sam's Subway, which was either supposed
to be reminiscent of the NYC subway or it was called that because it was
a half-flight down from the sidewalk, I don't know which.

Assuming the word was began and was once centered in NY and NJ, unless
the word stops being used there, it seems to me the center does not
change.