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I will be in Durham tomorrow night, and was looking for a decent place to eat near Emperor Blvd, off I-40.
I did a double-take when I saw the word "grinders" in Rudino's name. I though nobody outside of Connecticut used the term for a submarine sandwich.
Do people in the Triangle recognize the term "grinders"?
Rudinos is a great place. My wife and I are originally from Michigan and the owners of Rudinos went to Western Michigan/Michigan State. It's nice for us because they always support Michigan State and have the games on.
Anyway, yes, I'm familiar with the term grinder. They certainly use it up in Michigan. As for the food at Rudinos I highly recommend it. They have great pizza and a huge selection of GREAT grinders.
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Actually, I have seen "grinder" used in Mass, Conn, RI, and maybe Vermont, so it's specific to New England. I think they say "hoagie" in New York and New Jersey.
Hoagie is Philadelphia only. That would include South Jersey and Delaware, but it's a Philly term, definitely NOT New York.
Having said that, I remember grinders in PA, too. I always thought of a grinder as a toasted sub (or hoagie ).
Only when I'm at Rudino's. If you told me you were going to get a grinder I would assume you was going to get a pepper grinder or something, but not a sandwhich.
I worked for about two years very near the Rudinos in RTP and ate there quite often, as well as several of the other locations. The RTP one had, truely, the best pizza lunch buffet I'd ever had. Quality, age, choice all were well above what most buffets were.
And I'd not known what a "Grinder" was until I asked, and have to give them credit. A lot of restaurants have regional specialties in name only. R must have their sandwich bread made special because it's like nothing else I've had around here. Quite good, but not your normal sub/hoagie/po-bo bread.
In NY it's a sub up north and a hero in the southern parts. Not sure about the middle section of NY, but I never heard hoagie in the areas that I lived in (Queens, LI, Potsdam, Canton, Rochester, Ithaca).
In Binghamton we called them Subs...but the real stumper in Binghamton is Speidies...which is rubbery grilled chicken soaked in Italian dressing put on a split top hot dog bun.
I lived in the Albany/Saratoga area. Some places called them hoagies, some called them torpedos.
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