"And talk to your cardiologist first," said Montgomery County Sheriff John Durante, who calculated he had eaten "hundreds" of zeps in his life, starting in Linfante's.
"Put it this way: I could eat 20 to 30 a year, and that's a low estimate," Durante said.
Just don't try asking for one by name in hoagie territory. The Hindenburg went over better.
"It's a localism. It's just a variation of the same sandwich," sniffed hoagie expert Howard Robboy, a sociology professor at the College of New Jersey who has researched sandwiches, and their names, for decades.