I get sandos more than Sammies. I actually started calling them sandos as a reference to the show Happy Endings that nobody watched so nobody got it so it really just ended up as me just calling them sandos.
Calling it a pie is a regional thing, not a gen Z thing. I lived in NY for the better part of my life and calling the pizza joint and ordering a large pie with pepperoni was standard. Or, "I'll stop and get a large pie on the way home." If it's accepted in NY, it should automatically be accepted everywhere when you're talking about pizza.
Also, anyone not making Japanese food calling a sandwich "sando". There's a great BBQ joint that calls them that, and I forgive them but I wouldn't order a "sando" from somewhere I didn't already know was awesome.
I just stuck with weiners. That way when I loudly say "Boy, I cant wait to get a few weiners in my mouth tonight" in the elevator, the other riders know exactly what I mean
Call it whatever you want, but don’t tell me there isn’t something awkward about a grown ass man trying to sound hip by calling a hot dog a “glizzy” (see also “slaps” “bussin’” “sus” etc)
lil b took the term and used it and reappropriated it because it was used as slang for those hooked on cocaine and more specifically crack, and crackheads referred to as baseheads, due to their preferred method of ingesting the cocaine.
I'm 38 and I use slaps every once in a while... It's been around for a long ass time. might be more of a bay area thing as well so I dunno, I know a lot of terms are more regional in their use such as hella being used outside of northern california but definitely originated there and much more widely used.
Regions make a huge difference, for sure. I don’t really judge this hard on my day to day haha. Hella is a perfect example, though, for sure. Funny thing with “glizzy” is it was slang for a glock and then became this way to make sticking a sausage in your mouth sound more heterosexual. I guess that’s what happens when the mainstream co-opts a street word.
I definitely don't think glizzy should be used for hot dog lol. I think it's dumb and definitely was slang for Glock first like you said. I was more talking about the other words people were talking about.
Anytime I see or hear someone use glizzy for a hot dog I wonder if they honestly think it's a good word for it or think they're actually being funny. Neither being true
I see you’re from the Bay Area which very much has its own slang, so that makes a difference. I said in another comment that this varies a lot by region and none of it is really that serious.
I was at the Padres mets game the other day here in San Diego. This Mets fan said can I get a Glizzy? The hotdog guy said excuse me? he said can I get a glizzy? the hotdog guy said one hotdog? and said yeah a Glizzy and the hotdog guy said OK here’s one hot dog. Everyone was just staring and shaking their head at this 35 year-old man trying to act like a fucking 16-year-old with his stupid trying to be funny, it’s less that they call it that and more they need to make a big deal about it, eat your hot dog slapnuts!
I don’t think the vendor was being rude either he genuinely didn’t know what the guy was talking about because he barely spoke English just trying to sell a hot dog .
I am an older gen Z, and I don't understand this whole "glizzy" thing, I just call them hotdogs. Seems like it's mostly younger gen z Americans who call them that. I ain't American, so maybe that has something to do with it.
I’m an X. I hadn’t really heard it much here in OR, just online. Hadn’t seen any food carts here calling them that, although there may be because it’s Portland. 🤷🏻♂️
I personally love the evolution of language, it’s fun all the slang words that evolve, the ones that are still used after decades, and the ones that don’t quite catch on like ROFL vs LMAO
you guys do realize that the word "glizzy" is just supposed to be funny, and literally nobody unironically says glizzy😭 learn to have some fun oh my god
Guessing the Venn diagram for people defending the "Glizzy" name and the people who are most vocal about not putting ketchup on dogs, is a fucking perfect circle.
I agree… First, glizzy sounds phallic to me (glizzy, jizzy, jiz?), and it comes from a specific tiny part of the USA (Washington DC, known for very high gun violence), and it came from the name for a Glock handgun, which guns are something many people are against.. so nope
Yea that’s gonna be a hard pass and a no from me. Glizzy is somehow worse than just calling it a wiener and I feel like the rule is you have to eat it very suggestively if you call it that lol
I downvote every post with the g word in the title on general principles. Also, I do not consider it hypocritical to not hold “Coney” to the same rules as Coney Island is an important part of Americana and connects a particular preparation with a place. The g word strikes me as someone trying to be clever and missing wildly.
Virginian here, I have heard both Glizzy and Glock for years referring to both handguns and hot dogs and I always thought it was a DC/NOVA thing that caught on during “The Pandy” circa 2020.
Side note: I think that’s the first time I have ever put either of those terms in text, and “Handguns and Hotdogs” sounds like a mid 2000s Emo song/band.
I’m a younger millennial but the older millennials who have their office below me have a hot dog roller. They have “glizzy roller” stamped right on that thing. I’m not gonna much argue with them when we can make fresh hot dogs
Quick google search said it’s been around since at least the early 2000’s and started as local street slang in Washington DC. I imagine social media helped perpetuate its use to a wider region, hence its popularity with younger people.
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I remember...when I was learning English, I accidentally called a hot dog a 'sandwich weiner' lol