Wyy are submarine rolls so-called?

Question

Well, they don't look much like a submarine, and you can't eat them underwater, can you?

Answer 1

Well if you don't like the name change it to ..........airplane rolls. you do live in a free country don't you..

Answer 2

similar shape to a submarine.

http://navsource.org/archives/08/100/085...

what do you want them to be called? Tanks?

Answer 3

Because they are best enjoyed in a submarine.

Answer 4

They do look like submarines and you can eat them underwater though it probably wouldn't work out very well.

Answer 5

You want the correct answer ??  Then here you go !!

A submarine sandwich or sub is any of various sandwiches made on a long roll (usually up to 12" long by 3 " wide) or baguette (called "French bread" or a "submarine roll" in the U.S.), so called because of its shape. The contents typically include meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and various condiments, sauces or dressings.

The term is believed by some to have originated in a restaurant in Scollay Square in Boston, Massachusetts at the beginning of World War II [1]. The sandwich was created to entice the large numbers of navy servicemen stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The bread was a smaller specially baked baguette intended to resemble the hull of the submarines it was named after.[2]

One legend credits Paul D'Amico of Wakefield, Massachusetts of coining the term in 1928 while working in the Canto family's grocery store. The Canto's grocery store, with D'Amico as a partner, switched over completely to a "sub shop" named "Toody's" in 1945 and is the oldest and longest continually operating submarine sandwich shop in the United States. The "submarine sandwich" as coined by D'Amico originated from the way the sandwich was opened at the top, like a submarine. Paul D'Amico still lives around the corner from Toody's today (Toody's closed but has now reopened down the street from its original location).

Another legend suggests the submarine sandwich was brought to the US by Dominic Conti (1874-1954), an Italian immigrant who came to New York in the early 1900s.[3] In 1910 Mr. Conti started Dominic Conti's Grocery Store in Paterson, NJ. His granddaughter has stated the following: "My grandfather came to this country circa 1895 from Montella, Italy. Around 1910, he started his grocery store, called Dominic Conti's Grocery Store, on Mill Street in Paterson, New Jersey where he was selling the traditional Italian sandwiches. His sandwiches were made from a recipe he brought with him from Italy which consisted of a long crust roll, filled with cold cuts, topped with lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, oil, vinegar, Italian herbs and spices, salt, and pepper. The sandwich started with a layer of cheese and ended with a layer of cheese (this was so the bread wouldn’t get soggy).

During World War II, the sandwiches were served by the thousands to soldiers at the submarine base in Groton, Connecticut which cemented the legend that the sandwiches originated in Groton.