What's Your Sandwich??

[Trilby]

Lots of East Coasters and the like here (you, the inventors of the Sub sandwich!) and I've a q. for you: Here in the vanilla Midwest of skanky Ohio we call an I.T. a 'sub'--as in short for a submarine sandwich. I was brought up on summers in Maine (I thank the goddess for that!) and we had a meatball/spaghetti/pizza/ice-cream/sandwich place at the edge of the (old, old) highway called Mario's. We'd hike the mile from our lakeside cottage to Marios and get what everyone called I.T.'s--short for "italians", as in "italian sandwiches"--a Sub. (hopefully glatt knows the wonders of Marios as well!) Since then, I've bunked with my New Joisey relatives who called the same sandwich a "hoagie". (I also had an encounter with a NJ relative who told me about a thing called a Panzarotti and I've never, ever been able to find it anywhere since) Others called it a grinder--who does that? and a Po'Boy--all you white trash (you know who you are)

I guess I want to know, from amongst all you pros, does the Subway chain equal anything you grew up with?