Bart
Red thinks you have crappy taste and should pick better heros!
I like heroes, there's a deli near me that makes an Italian hero its out of this world!
They have great chicken-parm heros too.
Don't pay any attention to Red
he strikes me as a corned-beef with mayo on white kind of guy.
You mean grinders, right?
Hero worked in my post, but in my part of NJ, most call heros subs. Heros seems a NYC thing. Grinders, in my experience were originally found around in the Boston area in Greek owned "House of Pizza" places, and were usually served hot from the pizza oven. Spuckies seemed a very regional name in South Boston (Southie) for subs, never heard it anywhere else; Hoagies I think is a Philly thing, not sure though.
Red still strikes me as a white bread and mayo guy.
Hoagies are Philly and much of South Jersey. You actually can't get a good "sub" north of Philly.
I'll bite.
Philly cheese-steak subs are pretty, pretty, pretty good, but what make a Philly Hoagie better than a sub from Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, (great italiian neighborhood with really good specilaty delis and stores, the wise guys know good mortadella pro-joot, and muutz,) or the Italian neighborhood of Boston's North End, or New Haven or Providence Federal Hill?
I used to get a pretty good sub south of Philly, in AC, the White House sub shop, always tried to hit it on the way out of town.