Sometimes, moms with gay adult sons get hungry, and all they can think about is getting their hands on a sandwich.
This week, Twitter user @SpiceBoyJoey wrote, “mom asked if Grindr is for ‘ordering subs’ and i just walked out of the room.”
mom asked if Grindr is for “ordering subs” and i just walked out of the room
— lisa barlow’s diet coke (@SpiceBoyJoey) February 14, 2022
For those of you who might not know, “grinder” is another word for a submarine sandwich used in parts of New England, not to be confused with “Grindr”, the gay hookup app.
Per Wikipedia:
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A common term in New England is grinder, but its origin has several possibilities. One theory has the name coming from Italian-American slang for a dock worker, among whom the sandwich was popular.Others say that it was called a grinder because the bread’s hard crust required much chewing.
In Pennsylvania, New York, and parts of New England, the term grinder usually refers to a hot submarine sandwich (meatball, sausage, etc.), whereas a cold sandwich (e.g., cold cuts) is usually called a “sub”. In the Philadelphia area, the term grinder is also applied to any hoagie that is toasted in the oven after assembly, whether or not it is made with traditionally hot ingredients.
@SpiceBoyJoey’s tweet went viral, garnering over 80,000 likes, nearly 5,000 retweets, and tons of comments.
Here’s how people have been responding…
I’m her defense there is a sub chain in Columbus OH by that name pic.twitter.com/0WOzQJWkxF
— Mark (@Mark27779974) February 14, 2022
She’s not entirely off base…
— Travon Free (@Travon) February 15, 2022
well i use it to order subs
— kristofer thomas (@kristoferthomas) February 14, 2022
Yeah, “ordering doms” would be against the norms.
— (Ā,T) (@innerproduct) February 14, 2022
— shane:// (@haemolysis) February 14, 2022
after an hour of frustration trying to order an eggplant parm and a peach smoothie, a large man shows up at her door carrying a smaller man and the most depraved assortment of bondage equipment you’ve ever seen
— 🦡 Badger Tamer (@badg_er) February 14, 2022
Fruits , subs , cake , sausage…. It’s practically an online grocery store
— Ricardo (@Ricardo14205134) February 14, 2022
I read this to my husband and he just pantomimed unzipping a gimp mask and said “Sometimes,” and winked.
💀
— Tom Gibbons (@dthomasg) February 14, 2022
Well, I’ve heard you can order a 6 incher on there, I think a footlong is a bit much, though.
— Kris Who Tweets About Eurovision (@KrisWhoTweets) February 14, 2022
mom after downloading Grindr pic.twitter.com/cLRygB4nIl
— TERFS ARE DUMB AF (@godzillo_) February 15, 2022
Related: His mom found his poppers. What happened next was, well, kinda awkward.
SamB
I don’t believe it. Why is this mother going through her son’s phone? Fake story.
linedrive
Maybe it is fake but I didn’t read anything about her going through his phone. Perhaps he said something offhanded about the app or she overheard him talking about it with another person.
SamB
linedrive: You really think he was talking about it with his mom? I’m tired of these dumb “drop the mike” stories. And why did he just “walk out of the room?” Is that a good response? If this is true he’s a brat.
Jaquelope
“Why was his mother going through his hone?” Maybe because she’s probably the type who is so obsessed with her “little boy” that she’s injecting herself into every aspect of his life, and trying to control it because she has no real life of her own. Yes, it’s a stereotype, but there would be no stereotypes if there weren’t any incidents/attitudes that inspired the stereotype.
Den
“I’m tired of these dumb ‘drop the mike’ stories.”
Not nearly as tired as most of the folks here are of you and your dumb far right-wing posts. Maybe you’re tired enough to stop coming to this site? After all, the Daily Caller, Storm Front, Info Wars or Frankspeech might be more to your liking. While heterosexual allies might be welcome on this site, stupid supporters of the haters of LGBT people (and you are clearly one of those supporters) be thEy gay or straight Are not. You are anathema to people with empathy, intellect and forward looking attitudes.
SamB
Jaquelope: LOL good call. I had a straight friend in my teens and his mother would always tell him to find a nice girl, then when he finally did get a girlfriend his mother started calling them “wh0res” and “b!tches” LOL
storm45701
He didn’t say anything about his mother going through his phone.