Zep
The zep is Norristown's long-roll sandwich, defined by its refusals: one meat, salami, never lettuce, thumb-thick raw onion, oregano, and oil. Named for a zeppelin around 1938.
The Sub, Hoagie, Hero & Grinder
Wedge (Westchester)
Regional name for submarine sandwich in parts of New York.
Wawa Gobbler
Hot turkey, stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce folded into a roll at a gas-station counter. The Wawa Gobbler is Thanksgiving dinner as a hoagie, sold only a few weeks a year.
Wawa Classic Hoagie
Italian deli meats on a hoagie roll customized via touchscreen kiosk; Wawa convenience stores are a Mid-Atlantic institution, annual 'Hoa...
Vegetable Hoagie
The Philadelphia hoagie with the cured meats removed and nothing put back: heavier provolone, the full dress, and the oil doing work it usually only assists with.
Veal Parm Hero
The veal parm hero is the parmigiana sandwich at its most delicate: a milk-fed cutlet pounded near translucent, breaded, sauced, and handed over before it toughens. Chicken's older, pricier sibling.
Turkey Hoagie
A turkey hoagie is what a Philadelphian orders when the rest of the case feels too heavy: lean roast turkey on a hoagie roll, leaning on the oil, oregano, and provolone to season a mild meat.
Turkey Hero
Sliced turkey breast on hero with lettuce, tomato, and mayo.
Tuna Hoagie
A tuna hoagie is Philadelphia's cold long-roll reading of tuna salad: bound tuna in the cold-cut slot of a split Italian roll, dressed with shredded lettuce, tomato, onion, and oil.
Tuna Grinder
Mayo-bound tuna salad on a New England torpedo roll, capped with melted American or provolone and run under the salamander. The word grinder is the local cue for the hot version.
Subway Meatball Marinara
Italian-style meatballs in marinara sauce with optional cheese on a sub roll; Subway's signature hot sub.
Subway Italian B.M.T.
Genoa salami, pepperoni, and Black Forest ham on Subway bread with choice of vegetables and sauces; Subway's bestselling sandwich. B.M.T....
Submarine Sandwich
Generic term for a long sandwich on a cylindrical roll; regional names vary.
Stinger Sub
Cheesesteak or chicken sub with buffalo chicken fingers and hot sauce added.
Spiedie
Cubes of marinated chicken, pork, or lamb grilled and served on Italian bread; Binghamton's signature.
Spiedie Sub
Marinated fire-grilled cubes of chicken, pork, or lamb stripped off the skewer into a split roll with onions and peppers, the loaded form of Binghamton's spiedie and its vinegar-and-mint marinade.
Sheetz MTO Sub
Made-to-order subs customized via touchscreen at Sheetz gas stations; Appalachian/Western PA rival to Wawa's hoagies.
Sausage and Peppers Hero
Grilled Italian sausage with sautéed peppers and onions on Italian bread.
Roast Beef Hero
Cold rare roast beef sliced paper-thin off the deli blade, ribboned into folds on a long seeded New York hero roll with horseradish mayo, lettuce, tomato.
Riggies Sub
Chicken riggies (spicy chicken with rigatoni) served in a sub roll.
Quiznos Classic Italian
Genoa salami, pepperoni, ham, and capicola with mozzarella and red wine vinaigrette, run through a conveyor toaster. Quiznos built its name on the toasted sub, founded in Denver in 1981.
Providence Grinder
A Providence grinder is the cold Italian: shingled cured meats and provolone on a crusted roll, with a marinated banana-pepper relish run its full length. Rhode Island's word for the sub.
Potbelly A Wreck
Potbelly's Wreck stacks roast beef, salami, turkey, and ham with Swiss, then runs it through a conveyor toaster until it welds into one warm fused sub, the flagship of a chain born in an antique shop.
Pepper and Egg Hero
On a Friday in Lent the Italian-American deli puts up a hero with no meat: soft scrambled eggs folded with slow-stewed sweet peppers on a long roll, a thrift sandwich the calendar built and kept.