Poor Boys

[James Smith]

--- Anne Lambert <annelamb at GNV.FDT.NET> wrote:
> "Poor boy" is a New Orleans term for the sandwich
> which we usually call "submarine" (Philadelphia
> "hoagie," New England "grinder," "musalatta" or
> "muffuletta" also from New Orleans, "torpedo" in San
> Diego).  Some have tried to derive it from the Frenc
> "pourboire" 'tip,' but the consensus is that this
> sandwich was simply a good, cheap, filling meal for
> a poor boy.  "Hero" is the New York term...

I've assumed (I know, never safe) that "hero" was
derivative of Greek "gyro".



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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
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                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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