Dolphie Bush wrote: > We call that kind of thing a submarine sandwich in these parts but they are > not that popular, most certainly not in the region of a hamburger or a > chicken fried steak.
At the turn of the century, my great-grandfather who had come to the U.S. from Sicily, started a food market. He would cut Italian loaves of bread in half pour on olive oil, salt, and pepper, meats and cheeses and sell them at the docks when the sailors came off the boats. The sailors always referred to them as "Tom's submarines." In his obituary (1950) he is credited with having named the submarine sandwich. Jerry
