On 6/27/2014 10:19 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 6/26/2014 10:47 PM, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>> On 2014-06-27 02:22:05 +0000, Julie Bove said:
>>
>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>
>>>> For NJ they list the hoagie. No one around here calls it a
>>>> hoagie, it's a sub. Witness Jersey Mike's Subs, originated
>>>> 30 plus miles south of me.
>>>>
>>>> Could be different as you get closer to Philadelphia, but
>>>> I don't know.
>
>>> There was a sub shop in Berwick, PA. Even had the name "sub" in it.
>>> People said they were going there to get a hoagie. So they use both
>>> names.
>
> On Fridays in the summer, one of the newspapers I get has a
> weekly column called Munchmobile. Each week is a different
> food, and they go far and wide to rate whatever places people
> have recommended.
>
> Today's food? Subs/Hoagies. So what do I know. The only
> place that called themselves Hoagies was in Princeton and
> that's getting a lot closer to Philly than I am.
>
> Yikes, as I'm reading, they are awful. Ooops. Probably
> voted on by out of state students who also think Dominoes
> is the best pizza because that's all they know.
>
Gotta wonder who they're asking.

>> Is there really a difference? I think it's largely academic, like the
>> modern distinction between say a brat and a Polish sausage.
>
> I don't know of a difference, myself.
>
> nancy

Bratwurst is German, not Polish.

Jill