It's called a wedge in Westchester:

www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2019/10/10/westchester-county-wedge-sandwich/2404722001/


Joe Scalone grew up in a Yonkers neighborhood where they didn’t call a sandwich on a long roll a hero, hoagie or a sub.



In Westchester County, it’s a wedge.



Scalone never thought that was weird until he started dating a woman from Wayne, New Jersey. He still remembers how hard she and her mother laughed one day when he asked for a “chicken parm wedge” for lunch.

Legend has it that the name originated at a deli — some say Landi’s near Yonkers High School — where the matriarch of the family had a thick Italian accent. Her pronunciation of “sandwich” evolved into the shortened “wedge.” Others say the term originated because deli owners cut the overstuffed sandwich diagonally and create two halves with wedge-shaped ends.


“Wedge could be a shoe, it could be French fries, it could be a salad, it could be a couple different things,” he said. “Wedge is also a shape.”



One could argue it’s better than hoagie, which sounds a bit like the name of a cartoon character, or sub, short for submarine, because that nickname is all wet. You don't need a "hero" because you can take care of yourself.



And grinder is game for New York opposition if for no reason than it's popular in New England, where the rival Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots play. Besides, Stein said, most people know Grindr as a dating app now.



“It doesn’t sound like a sandwich,” he said. “It sounds like what you’d put a sandwich through if you wanted a chopped-up sandwich.”



Calling it a wedge comes with its risks though, as Neil Stephens found out in the late 1970s when he was about 7 or 8 years old. Stephens is now a cinematographer who lives in Pelham Manor.



“I’ll never forget the day I was allowed to go, by myself, to The Yellow Submarine on Main Street in New Rochelle and ordered a ‘meatball wedgie,’ ” he said. “The guys behind the counter stopped laughing somewhere around 1992.”