I guess of all subs out there nothing get more Italian than this Meatball Sub, it’s even more Italian than the first version Conti made. To make it even better we will finish this up by baking it with a mixture of parmesan and mozzarella.

Sub also called a submarine sandwich, hero, grinder, baguette or hoagie is a sandwich made out of a long bread roll filled with different sorts of meats, cheese, vegetables and sauces. This type of bread was created in America by the different Italian American Communities during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. Though the exact origins is still unknown one popular theory say that it was bought and developed by an Italian immigrant named Dominic Conti in New York during the early 1900s. They believed that he had named the sandwich after seeing the submarine called “Fenian Ram” in Paterson Museum, New Jersey.

Conti’s sandwich was sold on his own grocery store located in Mill Street in Paterson, New Jersey. Originally it was made from a recipe he brought with him from Italy where it consists of a long crust roll layered first with slices of cheese then filled with different cold cuts, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions and Italian herbs and spices then topped again with layers of cheese to prevent the moist filling making the bread soggy. From here on the popularity soared and lots of varieties were created like this post that we had today.

I guess of all subs out there nothing get more Italian than this meatball sandwich, it’s even more Italian than the first version Conti made. To make it even better we will finish this up by baking it with a mixture of parmesan and mozzarella.

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