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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T19:32:01.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Jamboroo",
    "NFL",
    "philadelphia",
    "sandwiches",
    "Wawa",
    "_SFGATE_",
    "_buy Drew’s books_",
    "_you’re at it_",
    "late Dan McQuade",
    "this 1989 writeup in the",
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  "textContent": "_Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? _ _Email the Roo_ _. You can also read Drew over at_ _SFGATE_ _, and_ _buy Drew’s books_ _while_ _you’re at it_ _._\n\nPrior to last week, I had never eaten at a Wawa. I knew of Wawa’s food offerings, because Defector Media has a sizable, and vocal, Philadelphia contingent. The most vocal among that contingent was the late Dan McQuade. McQuade was so intensely Philadelphian that I thought of him any time I encountered anything related to that city, and I still do. This goes especially for Wawa, and _especially_ for its sandwiches. I’d pumped gas at a Wawa before, but you and I know that doesn’t make for a full Wawa experience. It’s like saying you’ve been to a city because you had a layover there. No, in order to evaluate Wawa _correctly_ , I had to avail myself of all it had to offer. I have now done just that.\n\nA bit of background here: Motorists in 2026 might think of Wawa mainly as a service station that also happens to sell food. But that’s putting the cart before the hoagie, because Wawa was founded in the early 20th century as a dairy farm, and a dairy farm only. The name “Wawa” itself has a layered meaning. It refers to both the Lenape tribe’s word for the Canada goose (hence a Canada goose in its logo), and to the area of Delaware County that those same geese used as a favored rest stop while migrating. According to this 1989 writeup in the _Philadelphia Inquirer,_ the Wawa area of Delco still very much exists, although only in somewhat romantic terms:",
  "title": "Wawa: The Defector Review"
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