Hoagie

Hoagie - Interesting  story is that the Philadelphia Hoagie was developed and corrupted from the local restaurants making a sandwich for the shipyard workers at Hog Island (now by the Philadelphia Airport, during the second world war (WW II) it was the largest shipyard in the world). The shipyard is now gone and the island is no longer an island.

Wikipedia Encyclopedia "Traditionally, the hoagie was thought to have originated in Philadelphia, but a Delco Times Article claims that it was actually a product of neighboring Chester City in Delaware County. The traditional story in dispute with the above Delaware County Times article goes like this: During WWI, a ship yard located on Hog Island in the Delaware river employed many Italian immigrants as ship builders. Their wives would pack them large sandwiches packed with various meats and cheeses and the "hoagie" was born."

 Hoagie myth!" decries food historian William Woys Weaver, author of numerous books on food and its heritage—his latest being Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking (Abbeville Press). The birth of the hoagie dates back to the 1880's and the first time Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore played in Philadelphia. Local bakers, to honor the occasion, created a sleek, ship-shaped roll called a Pinafore. Street vendors, known in the slang of the times as "Hokey Pokey" men, took to stuffing these rolls with antipasto salad. These sandwiches were called Hokey's, which South Philadelphians, as is their way, changed to hoagie.

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