Poor Boys

[Simon,Beth]

While writing doing the first draft of the DARE  _hoagie_ entry, I noticed
that for some people, the whole collection of terms divided hyponymically.
Submarine was the genus under which were a number of species, some
distinguished from by ingredients &/or temperature of the ingredients, some
by region (& then sometimes ingredients). (If I remember correctly, a
hoagie was almost always a cold sandwich.)

Lynne Murphy wrote:

> I've never (to my knowledge) eaten a po boy, because whenever such a
> thing has been offered to me, it had catfish in it (and fish are icky,
> but that's another matter).  In Waco, Texas, the division seemed to be:
> if it has cold cuts in it, it's a submarine, but if it has catfish or
> cajun chicken in it, it's a po boy.
>
> Lynne