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Depends on who you ask, but there are several stories that are about the creation of hoagie. These Sandwiches are known by various names depending on where you live in the country. Some names include submarine, hero's hoagie, grinder, rocket, torpedo, Dagwood, Zeppelin and Italian sandwich. All of these are king size sandwiches on a loaf of bread approx. 12 inches long and 3 inches wide filled with various cold cuts and trimmings. One of the widely accepted stories about how the name came about says that workers at Hog Island brought this type of sandwich for lunch, but it was called a hoagie. The story goes that one of the workers who had a cheese sandwich everyday asked the wife of a coworker to make him a sandwich like her husband's and he would pay her. The next day he asked her to make two sandwiches. One for him and one for his friend Hogan. So, everyone started calling the sandwich "hogans" and then it was shortened to "hoagie". In another story in 1925 an Italian family opened a grocery store in Chester, Pennsylvania and according to family lore one summer afternoon a man walked in and asked to get a pack of cigarettes. The owner was cooking in the back kitchen and filled the store. He got hungry because of the smell of the cooking and asked if she could make him a sandwich and to pick out lunch meat from the case. He told her to put everything you have in the case on it. She took a long loaf of bread, sliced it, and added the lunch meat along with some of the sweet and hot peppers she was cooking. He left with the sandwich and an hour later the store was filled with people wanting the same sandwich. So, there are two of the many stories. We may never really know where or how the name came to be, but it is interesting.
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What is the Hoagie Sophia?
The Hoagie Sophia is a church that was in Constantinople and got turned into a mosque after the city fell
What is a hoagie?
A hoagie is a form of submarine sandwich. The term is used primarily in Pennsylvania.
Hoagie- where did the name come from?
I was born and raised in Philadelphia (Northeast section). According to local "folklore", the term "hoagie" (never spelled with a "y") came about from the sandwiches made of lunch meat (cold cuts to outsiders) by the wives and families of dock workers, mostly Irish, Italian and German immigrants, on Hog Island shipyard around the turn of the century. Hoagie is a misspelling and mispronunciation of "hog" as in Hog Island. Accordingly, they may have originally called "hoggies".The exact location of Hog Island today is the Philadelphia International Airport. The shipyard is long gone.As for where the term "hoagie" truthfully originated, no one knows for sure. It's one of those things that has been lost to the sands of time. Though, Wikipedia does confirm this local "folklore":The term hoagie originated in the Philadelphia area. Domenic Vitiello, professor of Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania asserts that Italians working at the World War II shipyard in Philadelphia, known as Hog Island where emergency shipping was produced for the war effort, introduced the sandwich, by putting various meats, cheeses, and lettuce between two slices of bread. This became known as the "Hog Island" sandwich; hence, the "hoagie".[7] The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual offers a different explanation, that the sandwich was created by early twentieth century street vendors called "hokey-pokey men", who sold antipasto salad, along with meats and cookies. When Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta H.M.S. Pinafore opened in Philadelphia in 1879, bakeries produced a long loaf called the pinafore. Entrepreneurial "hokey-pokey men" sliced the loaf in half, stuffed it with antipasto salad, and sold the world's first "hoagie".[8] Another explanation is that the word "hoagie" arose in the late 19th-early 20th century, among the Italian community in South Philadelphia, when "on the hoke" was a slang used to describe a destitute person. Deli owners would give away scraps of cheeses and meats in an Italian bread-roll known as a "hokie", but the Italian immigrants pronounced it "hoagie."[9] Other less likely explanations involve "Hogan" (a nickname for Irish workers at the Hogg Island shipyard), a reference to the pork or "hog" meat used in hoagies, "honky sandwich" (using a racial slur for white people seen eating them) or "hooky sandwich" (derived from "hookie" for truant kids seen eating them).[3] Shortly after WWII, there were numerous varieties of the term in use throughout Philadelphia. By the 1940s, the spellings "hoagie" and, to a lesser extent, "hoagy" had come to dominate lesser user variations like "hoogie" and "hoggie".[10] By 1955, restaurants throughout the area were using the term "hoagie", with many selling hoagies and subs or hoagies and pizza. Listing in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966.[10] Former Philadelphia mayor (now Pennsylvania governor) Ed Rendell declared the hoagie the "Official Sandwich of Philadelphia".[11] However, there are claims that the hoagie was actually a product of nearby Chester, Pennsylvania.[12]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich
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What ingredients is a hoagie made with?
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What is the Hoagie Sophia?
The Hoagie Sophia is a church that was in Constantinople and got turned into a mosque after the city fell
What is a hoagie?
A hoagie is a form of submarine sandwich. The term is used primarily in Pennsylvania.
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el sánwich/bocadillo you can also just say "hoagie" as there would be no exact translation for that.
What rhymes with hoagie?
Words that rhyme with "hoagie" include smoky, stogie, bogie, and foggy.
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Hoagie Carmicheal
