![]() Photo Credit : Brenda Darroch Sandwich Names Throughout New England Due to its proximity to Maine, you may also find some Italian sandwiches in eastern New Hampshire. In the Yankee Classic article Italian Sandwiches | Portland Maine’s Unsung Contribution to the World, the author describes the Italian sandwich formula at one particularly famous restaurant in Portland. The Italian sandwich is a special concoction of ingredients, including things like olive oil, onions, and tomatoes. Beware, though, as an Italian sandwich in Maine is not just any old sub. Instead, the term of choice is Italian sandwich. In Maine, however, they don’t want anything to do with spukies or grinders. ![]() Spukie is typically heard in South Boston, though you can also find bakeries in the North End with homemade spucadellas for sale. The term “ spukie” (or “spuckie”) is unique to the Boston area and comes from the Italian word spucadella, meaning “long roll.” What’s interesting about this term is that spucadella isn’t found in most Italian dictionaries, which suggests that it could come from a regional Italian dialect, or even be a Boston Italian innovation. Within Boston, however, there is even greater diversity. The Greater Boston area, as well as Cape Cod and the Islands, seem to be largely grinder-less, instead preferring either the classic “ sub” or a smattering of different names from other regions, such as hero or hoagie. Photo Credit : Thinkstock Greater Boston Sandwich NamesĮastern Massachusetts is another story. Grinders? Subs? That depends on where you live. Elsewhere, folks might use “grinder” to distinguish a hot sub from a cold one - the former being the grinder and the latter the sub - though this distinction seems to have largely disappeared over the years. According to the data, grinder is a term that’s also found quite often throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and western and central Massachusetts. The origin of grinder is not well known, though it’s said that the name initially came from the tough Italian bread used to make the sandwich, which you would have to “grind” your teeth through. Looking at New England’s southern shores, it’s clear that Connecticut and Rhode Island say “ grinder” more than anything else. One of the questions asked in both these studies aimed to determine what Americans call a “long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on.” The results, which the researchers used to create dialect maps of the whole Unites States, show that New England is divided by the names we give to our subs.īased on those maps, here’s an overview of New England’s “sub divisions”: Grinders, Subs, and Spuckies | Sandwich Names of New England Southern & Western New England Sandwich Names Jøhndal began a similar study called the Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes. Several years later, Vaux and researcher Marius L.
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