![]() (4) During the Depression (1929-1939), out-of-work Philadelphian, Al DePalma, went to Hog Island near the naval shipyards to find work. It was the beginning of a new creation, soon to become know as the Hoagie.” He left and an hour later the place was filled with hungry gamblers asking for a sandwich. “I’m frying sweet and hot peppers,” she replied and without asking she put a few pieces of the pepper on the sandwich. “What are you cooking that smells so good?” the hungry gambler asked. He looked into the case and with an Italian hand waving gesture said: “Put everything you have in the case on it.” Mom took a long loaf of Vienna bread, sliced it lengthwise and proceeded to put on all of the lunchmeat. “OK, pick out what kind of lunchmeat you want,” she said. The aroma apparently whet the man’s appetite and he asked Mom if she would make him a sandwich. Mom was cooking in the back kitchen and the aroma penetrated throughout the store. “One summer afternoon back in 1925, one of the men who cut the game decided to take a break and he walked into the store to get a pack of cigarettes. According to Augie DiCostanza, granddaughter of Augustine and Catherine: According to the family lore, the grocery store stayed open well past midnight to accommodate the late-night gamblers who played card games at the Palermo’s Bar nearby. DiCostanza’s Grocery Store” in Chester, Pennsylvania. (3) In 1925, Augustine DiCostanza and his wife, Catherine, opened their grocery store called “A. So everyone started calling the sandwich “hogans,” which eventually was shortened to Hoagie. ![]() ![]() The story goes, that one day an Irish worker, who brought the same American cheese sandwich everyday, looked enviously at his co-workers’ lunches and said “If your wife will make me one of those things, I’ll buy it from you.” The man went home and said to his wife “Tomorrow, make two sandwiches, one for me and one for Hogan,” his co-worker’s name. (2) Another version on this story says that workers at Hog Island did bring this type of sandwich for lunch, but it was never called a Hoagie. These workers were nicknamed “hoggies.” Over the years, the name was attached to the sandwiches, but under a different spelling. The Italian immigrants working there would bring giant sandwiches made with cold cuts, spices, oil, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and peppers for their lunches. (1) The most widely accepted story centers on an area of Philadelphia known as Hog Island, which was home to a shipyard during World War I (1914-1918). There are a number of different stories as to how the Hoagie got its name, but no matter what version is right (historians cannot seem to agree on which is the correct version), all agree that it started in Philadelphia or the it’s suburbs. The Hoagie was originally created in Philadelphia. It was declared the “Official Sandwich of Philadelphia” in 1992. A true Italian Hoagie is made with Italian ham, prosciutto, salami, and provolone cheese, and all the works. Hoagies are built-to-order sandwiches filled with meat and cheese, as well as lettuce, tomatoes, and onions, topped off with a dash of oregano-vinegar dressing on an Italian roll. Dagwood became know for his huge sandwiches he created on evening forays to the refrigerator. According to the creator of the comic, Murat Bernard “Chic” Young (1901-1973), the only thing that Dagwood could prepare in the kitchen was a mountainous pile of dissimilar leftovers precariously arranged between two slices of bread. The term, Dagwood Sandwich, originated in the comic strips in the 1930s named after a comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead. The term Dagwood Sandwich is also used to denote a sandwich of tremendous size and infinite variety of contents to stun the imagination, sight, and stomach of everyone but the original maker. It is a multi-layered sandwich with a variety of fillings. These sandwiches are all king-sized on a loaf of bread, approximately 12 inches long and 3 inches wide, filled with various cold cuts and many different trimmings. ![]() Some of those names include: Submarine, Heros, Hoagie, Grinder, Po’ Boy, Rocket, Torpedo, Dagwood, Hero, Zepplin, and Italian Sandwich. Submarine-Style Sandwiches are known by various names depending on where you live in this country. ![]()
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