# FHM and MAXIM delivered to city hall **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 17, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167 "2006-05-17T21:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/141 "2006-05-24T15:51:09Z")
> [@Exploding Kitchen](#): > > That’s how I first knew that I had moved to Texas when I did… They don’t mark the state line? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/142 "2006-05-24T16:01:54Z")
> [@Martini Enfield](#): > > Unless I’m being spectaculalry whoosed, the sandwich you described would be defined as “A sub” in this part of the world. What on earth do Submarine Sandwiches have to do with heroes? Yes, we 'Merkins have two words for grinders. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/143 "2006-05-24T16:54:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yes, we 'Merkins have two words for grinders. Four, if you count “grinder” and “hoagie”. Mmmmmm…forbidden sandwich…\ Fuck. I’m sick of working to take weight off. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/144 "2006-05-24T17:04:21Z")
> [@Faruiza](#): > > Four, if you count “grinder” and “hoagie”. Yeah, but I can’t afford four. I’m just a po’ boy. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/145 "2006-05-24T17:05:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yeah, but I can’t afford four. I’m just a po’ boy. Let me guess: Dagwood is your hero? \ ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/146 "2006-05-24T17:09:36Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Yeah, but I can’t afford four. I’m just a po’ boy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/147 "2006-05-24T17:11:17Z")
Apparently, they’re also called Cuban sandwiches, Italian sandwiches, torpedos, wedges, and zeps. It’s a multifaceted sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/148 "2006-05-24T17:14:20Z")
Don’t forget the Po’Boy. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/149 "2006-05-24T17:23:58Z")
Zeps? WTF is a zep? As in Zeppelin? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/150 "2006-05-24T17:25:11Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Let me guess: Dagwood is your hero? Meh. I’m more into Blondie. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/151 "2006-05-24T17:25:09Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Zeps? WTF is a zep? > > As in Zeppelin? Yeah, or a blimpie. (Hence the chain Blimpies) ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/152 "2006-05-24T18:45:51Z")
Well, I dunno about you, but I like to get a nice firm grip on my hoagie after reading FHM and Maxim. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/153 "2006-05-24T18:49:07Z")
> [@Epimetheus](#): > > Well, I dunno about you, but I like to get a nice firm grip on my hoagie after reading FHM and Maxim. Watch it there, bub. Some stupid asshole might just send you some queen size undies in the mail. And THEN you’ll be sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/154 "2006-05-24T22:55:00Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Well, “A large sandwich consisting of a long roll split lengthwise and filled with layers of meat, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, and condiments,” also defines “hero,” but I don’t know that I’d make an allowance for porno fetish magazines for a sandwich. Even if it were a MLT - mutton, lettuce, and tomato, where the mutton is really lean, and the tomato is… well, I think I’m getting off on a bit of a tangent, here. Don’t you mean a hoagie? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/155 "2006-05-24T23:08:06Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Don’t you mean a hoagie? > > 😃 Where have all the hoagies gone? And where are all the subs? Where’s the deluxe meatlovers To feed the hungry chubs? Isn’t there some white meat upon sesame seed? Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need Chorus: I need a hoagie I’m holding for a hoagie, 'til the end of the night Its’s gotta be long And he’s gotta be hot And he’s gotta be on toasted rye I need a hoagie I’m holding out for a hoagie 'til the morning light It’s gotta be spiced And it’s gotta be soon And he’s gotta be larger than life Somewhere after midnight In my wildest fantasy Somewhere just beyond my reach There’s a sandwich reaching back for me Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat It’s gonna take a zeppelin to sweep me off my feet ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/156 "2006-05-25T00:46:09Z")
Right now, a female friend of mine is reading my newest issue of Maxim magazine. I haven’t yet read it. If the OP is right, I’m hanging out with the right women. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/157 "2006-05-25T15:45:43Z")
What, no “apparatus” jokes yet? ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167/158 "2006-05-25T15:55:42Z")
Just as a side-note: down here in South Florida, a Cuban Sandwich is something very specific – it’s a hero on a soft hoagie roll, and it’s got sliced pork and pickles on it, among other things. It’s pressed flat and heated, too. Not your typical sub! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fhm-and-maxim-delivered-to-city-hall/357167.md?page=7)