I grew up in New London, CT, where they make nuclear submarines. You might think it's obvious a long cold cut sandwich would be called a 'sub' but it wasn't, they were Grinders.
Pizza - Italian/NY, or Greek? Greek for me with a slightly risen crust that has a crunch to it. Italian/NY is flat and soft dough good for folding.
Clam fritters, YUM, are deep-fried dough balls with lots of clam chunks mixed in. A clam cake is similar ingredients but shallow-fried in a pan and shaped like a large thick cookie.
Clam chowder is at least 3 varieties: New England with a white creamy base, Manhattan which is just vegetable soup withh clam chunks added, and Rhode Island which has same ingredients as New England but no cream so the broth is clear.
Most New Englanders remove R's from the middle of words (pahking place) but make up for this by adding them to the end of other words (great idear).
Pancake, flapjack, johnny cake?
Porch, patio, lanai, veranda?
Played 'stoop ball' but not by that name. Problem was if you missed the corner of the step you could break the glass in the front door - RUN!
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