It is, in fact, the game show. Sweet lord, I couldn't stop laughing.

Weird. I hit Random Article on Wikipedia and it pulled up Travis Air Force Base which is where my sister was born.

That doesn't seem random enough.

Hmm. I think that many of my terms for foods are actually New England terms, though I grew up in NY/NJ. And I can't figure out what I call a sandwich on a long roll. Sub and hero both seem right. Hoagie seems a little less right. I know that I don't say grinder unless I'm in Maine. Italian hero or Italian sandwich means a particular kind -- the one with a bunch of meats and cheeses and oil and vinegar.

Do people elsewhere not use "pie" to refer to pizza?

Now I want pizza.

My best friend from college did her internship and residency at the hospital at Travis (the Air Force put her through med school at UCSD). She did her three of her last four years with the AF in Japan, and then her final year at the base near Dupont, WA (forget the name of it).

My school called those kinds of sandwiches "hoagies," but we normally just called them subs. I never use the word "pie" for pizza unless I'm being silly. ("I'll partake of a portion of that pizza pie, please!")

I think pizza comes by the slice or the pie, so I'd order a large pie, sure.

I grew up in Northern New Jersey, and our family called them "hoagies", but my dad is from the Philadelphia region, and that's where I think he got it from.

We always called them subs/submarines. I find 'hoagey' and 'grinder' still catch me off guard. My school lunch menu always referred to the sandwiches as 'grinders' which was weird, because it was so not the common term in our area.

In the years before Subway infiltrated my hometown, we had a local chain (3 or 4 stores total) called Sub Diggity (RIP!) that made really good sub sandwiches. Now, there's another good regional chain called Potbelly's whose sandwiches are toasted and of teh yum.

When we were selling them as a fundraiser for school, it was called the "Hoagie Sale." (It was a yearly event.) I don't think I've ever used "submarine."

Hmm. Meatball sub. Meatball hero. Italian sub. Italian hero. Eggplant sub. Eggplant hero. Turkey sub. Turkey hero. "Meatball hero" and "Italian hero" sound more right to me, but it's definitely "turkey sub," not "turkey hero." Eggplant can go either way.

The kind you get for parties is definitely a "six-foot hero," though. I can't get that phrase to sound right to me with any word other than "hero."

Navy beans, navy beans, meatball sandwich....

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