There is mezedes, and tiropites, and… now we’re reallllly getting off-topic 
Well, I will still yell at clouds for this one. Drives me nuts.
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A cousin of mine has the same struggle with cannoli.
I feel both of your pain. But in many places in the US, using the proper singular (panino, cannolo, etc.) seems snobbish. (For the record, I don’t agree. Proper use is proper use.)
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My Latin teacher would have lol-ed
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Show of hands: who has actually tried to order a panino? How did that go?
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Why, only a snob would ever.
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This is why in Chinese it’s one word for singular or plural - so much easier!
@small_h - I remember years ago reading about Chinese style tapas. And I kept thinking in my head…“dim sum?” A term already exists! Tapas and small plates was the new big thing at the time, and this marketing team thought this was creative and cool, I guess. Dim sum just means a small plate that “touches the heart”. It doesn’t specifically refer to har gau, cheung fun, or specific dishes commonly served during tea at dim sum restaurants.
I would be ok with ordering a panini over a sammie or a sando. Am I the only one that gets annoyed at those terms, and their popping up on menus? Maybe it’s age and turning more curmudgeonly.
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Same. But I’m just generally anti-baby talk.
I’ve seen scallion pancakes referred to as Chinese-style pizza, which makes no sense whatsoever.
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Never sammies. Always sammiches. Or sambitches. Or sanguiches.
I play with language more than with my food.
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Mine, too. RIP Mrs. Dick.
Olive Garden persisted in calling olive oil “Italian butter”. Wrong!!
(My Puerto Rican father liked what he called “Spanish toast”: ordinary toast with olive oil drizzled on it instead of butter. My brother inherited that preference.)
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Oh dear. My Italian grandma would NOT approve! And neither do I.
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My SO loves to use this word. I know he’s using it in a joking way. But sometimes it’s the best word to describe an Italian combo hero from a good deli.
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“Are you still working on that?”
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This is the pronunciation that falls of of the moths of old school Chicagoans, esp southsiders.
It is how all the “Da Bears” guys from SNL should say it.
“Yeh, Eye gaht a reely nice Eye-talian beef sanguich here, wit aig-stra juice…”
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Apropos
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Cool. Adding it to my places to visit some day.
Across from home plate, among the friendly competition:
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