Yet another possible origin of the term, as conveyed by Howard Robboy, is that a man in Philadelphia, Alphonso DePalma, who later opened a sandwich shop there, claimed to have stated in 1928 'You have to be a hog to eat one of those.' Deli owners would give away scraps of cheeses and meats in an Italian bread-roll known as a 'hokie', but the Italian immigrants pronounced it 'hoagie'. Īnother explanation is that the word hoagie arose in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, among the Italian community in South Philadelphia, when 'on the hoke' meant that someone was destitute. Entrepreneurial 'hokey-pokey men' sliced the loaf in half, stuffed it with antipasto salad, and sold the world's first 'hoagie'. Pinafore opened in Philadelphia in 1879, bakeries produced a long loaf called the pinafore. When Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta H.M.S. The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual offers a different explanation, that the sandwich was created by early-twentieth-century street vendors called 'hokey-pokey men', who sold antipasto salad, meats, cookies and buns with a cut in them. 1945, and may have been altered by influence of Carmichael's nickname. 1936), traditionally said to be named for the jazz musician Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981), but the use of the word predates his celebrity and the original spelling seems to suggest another source (perhaps 'hog'). American English (originally Philadelphia) word for 'hero, large sandwich made from a long, split roll' originally hoggie (c. ĭ offers the following origin of the term hoagie - n. This became known as the 'Hog Island' sandwich shortened to 'Hoggies', then the 'hoagie'.

In 1953, the Philadelphia Bulletin reported that Italians working at the World War I–era shipyard known as Hog Island, where emergency shipping was produced for the war effort, introduced the sandwich by putting various meats, cheeses, and lettuce between two slices of bread. The term hoagie originated in the Philadelphia area. Hoagie Workers read the Hog Island News Salami, ham and cheeses on a hoagie roll

Party sub Ī party sub is a particularly long submarine sandwich, usually cut into pieces and served to guests at parties. The sandwich started with a layer of cheese and ended with a layer of cheese (this was so the bread wouldn't get soggy). His sandwiches were made from a recipe he brought with him from Italy, which consisted of a long crust roll, filled with cold cuts, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, oil, vinegar, Italian herbs and spices, salt, and pepper. Around 1910, he started his grocery store, called Dominic Conti's Grocery Store, on Mill Street in Paterson, New Jersey where he was selling the traditional Italian sandwiches.

My grandfather came to this country circa 1895 from Montella, Italy. His granddaughter has stated the following: He is said to have named it after seeing the recovered 1901 submarine called Fenian Ram in the Paterson Museum of New Jersey in 1928. by Dominic Conti (1874–1954), an Italian immigrant who came to New York in the late 19th century. One theory says the submarine was brought to the U.S. While some accounts source the name as originating in New London, Connecticut (site of the United States Navy's primary submarine base) during World War II, written advertisements from 1940 in Wilmington, Delaware, indicate the term originated prior to the United States's entry into World War II. The use of the term 'submarine' or 'sub' (after the resemblance of the roll to the shape of a submarine) is widespread in the United States and Canada. Sociologists Edwin Eames and Howard Robboy identified thirteen different terms for the submarine sandwich in the United States. The popularity of this Italian-American sandwich has grown from its origins in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island to most parts of the United States and Canada, and with the advent of chain restaurants, is now available in many parts of the world. The Italian sandwich originated in several different Italian-American communities in the Northeastern United States from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.

The terms submarine and sub are widespread in the US and not assignable to any certain part, though many of the localized terms are clustered in the northeastern United States. A submarine sandwich, commonly known as a sub, hoagie ( Philadelphia metropolitan area and Western Pennsylvania English), hero ( New York City English), Italian ( Maine English), grinder ( New England English), wedge ( Westchester, NY), or a spuckie ( Boston English), is a type of American cold or hot sandwich made from a cylindrical bread roll split lengthwise and filled with meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.

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