We're not that clever in Australia (there's no need to add any comments Cap K!!) when it comes to naming food - have even given a Russian name to perhaps our most famous dish - Pavlova.
Our tendency is, wherever possible in the spoken word, to take as many shortcuts as possible, or round off a word with a superfluous syllable.
Thus, "sandwiches" are referred to throughout the land as "sarnies" and/or "sangers". The latter seems to have changed meaning over the past 25 years, back then it referred primarily to a sausage - especially those put on the barbie. To show how flexible we are, BBQ'd sausages wrapped in bread are known as "sanger sarnies". Easy!!
PS The Subway chain is doing its best to edjamacate us into using "sub", but it'll be a long time before a cylindrical sarnie is known as anything other than a "roll" in Oz.
PPS "Hoagie"???? Where the hell did that come from (or didn't I read all the post?)
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