{"id":231911,"date":"2026-06-30T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231911\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:42:08","slug":"celebrate-philadelphias-official-sandwich-on-wawa-hoagie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231911\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Philadelphia’s Official Sandwich On WAWA Hoagie Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never miss WAWA Hoagie Day. Philadelphians agree on a few things. We love Drum Elmo, the Phillie Phanatic, Gritty (mascots apparently), and we all love WAWA. Everyone can agree on WAWA. We celebrate year-round via daily coffee runs and food orders, but from Juneteenth to July 4th in Philly, we celebrate WAWA and America for over 2 weeks straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 16-day WAWA Welcome America Festival is packed with free family friendly events and lots of Free Museum Days. I love the opportunity it allows us to be tourists in our own city, checking out museums all over the area on Free Museum Days. I visited the United States Mint for the first time last week, and wrote about it HERE<\/a>. We enjoyed Kidchella again this year (as always), and tomorrow (Wednesday, 7\/1) is a celebration of Philly’s proud hoagie heritage. WAWA Hoagie Day 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Baby'sKristen Herrmann for BBGI<\/p>\n

The first Hoagie Day was held in 1992. Then Mayor Ed Rendell declared that the hoagie is the “Official Sandwich of Philadelphia”. <\/p>\n

Plan to be outside the National Constitution Center tomorrow afternoon (7\/1) for a free hoagie and lots more. <\/p>\n

WAWA FREE Hoagie Day (7\/1)5am<\/p>\n

Beginning very early tomorrow morning, Wawa Associates will start to build 30,000 hoagies using 8 tons of ingredients.<\/p>\n

7am<\/p>\n

Miss America Cassie Donegon and Miss America Teen Tess Fern will be there to cheer on the WAWA Associates, and to honor WAWA\u2019s MVP\u2019s (Most Valuable Preparers).<\/p>\n

10am-11am<\/p>\n

The first 12,000 hoagies will be donated to the Police Athletic League , Philabundance, and the Veterans Multi-Service Center. Everyday heroes will be picking up hoagies to distribute to the charities.<\/p>\n

12pm – FREE Hoagie O’Clock<\/p>\n

Plan to be outside the National Constitution Center at noon. The remaining 18,000 hoagies will be served for free to the public on Arch Street between 5th and 6th.<\/p>\n

Come For The Free Hoagie, Stay For The Performances and Competitions12:30pm<\/p>\n

While you’re eating your hoagie, enjoy some entertainment. The hoagie building competition, “Hoagies for Heroes” is always a fun time, and again hosted by our sister station WMMR\u2019s Preston and Casey from the Preston and Steve Show. They’re a blast and will help to host 2 “Hoagies for Heroes” matchups. The first matchup will be between Philly Police vs. Philly Fire. Then, watch as members of the Air Force Reserve and Army National Guard face-off for a great cause. Everyone’s a winner, as each of the 4 teams pick charities of their choice. WAWA will donate $3,000 to the charities of all 4 teams.<\/p>\n

There will also be a $900,000 check presentation to the USO from the WAWA Foundation\u2019s in-store fundraising campaign. The check will be given to the USO, and some cheer too. Look for QR codes to share a digital message of encouragement to service members while you\u2019re there. The messages will be delivered to service members via USO locations around the world.<\/p>\n

12:45pm<\/p>\n

Enjoy a patriotic performance from Voices of Service.<\/p>\n

1pm<\/p>\n

The U.S. Air Force Heritage of America Band performs at 1pm. <\/p>\n

\"GloriaKristen Herrmann for BBGINeed to cool off?<\/p>\n

It’s going to be hot tomorrow. Venture inside the National Constitution Center for some air conditioning with a side of American history. It\u2019s free admission all day tomorrow from 10am -5pm at the National Constitution Center, courtesy of WAWA.<\/p>\n

Oh! And for the mascot lovers among us, Wally Goose and the Shorti Hoagie mascots will be there too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I never miss WAWA Hoagie Day. Philadelphians agree on a few things. We love Drum Elmo, the Phillie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100267,69,71,70,5795],"class_list":["post-231911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hoagie-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}