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by **Bakestar** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:11:01

Vague?

by **pacino** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:11:26

wawa's sandwiches suck pretty hard

by **Bucky** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:12:15

Bakestar wrote:All the Wawa Whiners need to realize that a 2009 Wawa Italian hoagie is like 1,000X better than an "Italian sub" in northern NJ. Appreciate!

SHUT IT

next thing you'll want us to appreciate that all we have to do is go to broad and market to see the liberty bell

by **jerseyhoya** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:13:03

I dunno. Some of the best rolls in the world comes from Hoboken and such. Lots of Italians up there to put cold cuts on a roll. I've had fantastic Italian subs while at my cousin's place in Montclair.

Wawa's fine, but not in the league of something from a good deli.

by **pacino** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:14:39

Let's put it this way. If Wawa was in spots like Arkansas, it'd instantly be the best hoagie joint around. In Philly? It's a spot for wasted suburban teenagers to get a meatball grinder at 2am

by **z ipper** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:16:00

wawa also used to have a pretty good pulled pork sammy but that's gone now too. i should've included that in the letter. damn.

by **Bakestar** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:16:07

jerseyhoya wrote:I dunno. Some of the best rolls in the world comes from Hoboken and such. Lots of Italians up there to put cold cuts on a roll. I've had fantastic Italian subs while at my cousin's place in Montclair.

Wawa's fine, but not in the league of something from a good deli.

But they're just not the same as what you get in Philadelphia and the environs. They can be good, but they're different.

by **pacino** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:17:32

z ipper wrote:wawa also used to have a pretty good pulled pork sammy but that's gone now too. i should've included that in the letter. damn.

Truth. I went about a month ago after not going to Wawa for a long while and was surprised when I couldn't find any pork sandwich options. I had to settle for the meatball, which was decidedly bland.

And the rolls are too damn soft!

edit: The best pork sandwich I've ever eaten was in the short-lived Center City Ralph's. For whatever reason it was perfect, with just the right amount of sogginess on the inside of the roll with hardness on teh outside. It mixed so well with the pork

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:53:16

And there's a Wawa right outside the Chinatown bus station. Pretty big strategic advantage

by **CrashburnAlley** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:55:02

The last time I had a Wawa meatball sandwich was, oh, about a month ago. Worst sandwich ever. Instead of tomato sauce, I think they simply cut up a tomato, smashed it with a boot, and put it on my sandwich. I was picking off strips (like bacon) of tomato skin. I was super hungry, so I ate it anyway, but if I was less hungry, I would have walked in and hurled it at the sandwich lady, who is about 65 years old.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:58:39

I only get Italians at Wawa

by **pacino** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 00:00:00

that's racist

by **CrashburnAlley** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 00:05:14

Bucky wrote:
CrashburnAlley wrote:I'm guessing at least one person here has an answer for me...

You know the sirens they have at various municipal buildings? I think they're for fires or other emergencies -- why do they need to make such obnoxious sounds in the current age of technology?

I live about 200 feet from a municipal building and the sirens have been going off essentially all day -- very annoying.

It's a hotly debated topic in the emergency services community. We were recently mandated by the township to disable ours between 10P-6A. (Which reminds me our siren control broke over the weekend and I was supposed to go fix it tonight....oops).

But anyhow, we stil have many incidences where we have personnel who learn of the fire call by way of the siren. As much as we try to keep our pagers nearby, sometimes it doesn't work out that way. The pagers aren't perfect. Sometimes they fail. We have a guy whose pager doesn't work in his basement den, but he can hear the siren from there. Batteries wear down. And sometime they're left inside on the table. And out here in suburb-land, if the volunteers don't respond, nobody does.

I live about 3 miles from our firehouse, and I have been in my yard and heard the siren. So is the level of efficacy worth it? That's the debate.

There's also the PR perspective, which is even more debatable. Some say that the siren keeps us in the forefront of the resident's minds. If you briefly wake up because of the siren, you may realize that there's 15 or so of your fellow residents who are racing from their homes (and may not sleep for the rest of the night) at that very time. And we rely on the residents to keep running. And when the siren sounds, it gives drivers a heads up to watch for (and yield to- yeah right!) vehicles with blue lights.

Bottom line is, people keep complaining, and the sirens are gradually going away. It's only a matter of time. I know if my siren breaks, I won't get the funding to have it repaired or replaced.

Thanks for the thorough response. I can understand why firemen wouldn't want to do away with it, but I think that the level of annoyance outweighs the convenience, especially when there are so many other ways they can be alerted of an emergency.

I can turn on my Xbox while I'm copping a squat in the bathroom with the door closed. There is definitely a better solution than the one currently implemented. :wink:

by **VoxOrion** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 08:05:26

pacino wrote:Let's put it this way. If Wawa was in spots like Arkansas, it'd instantly be the best hoagie joint around. In Philly? It's a spot for wasted suburban teenagers to get a meatball grinder at 2am

What pisses me off is that there was a time in the 80's and 90's when Wawa made a hoagie as good as any of those places. Amoroso rolls, slice the meat and cheese to order, etc. Hell, it was a destination for lunchmeat.

It sucks because I'm sure Wawa had to have put a lot of mom and pops out of business back then, and now they're still out of business and we're stuck with this sub-Quizno's garbage.

The crazier thing is that in the early 80's, Wawa was the mom and pop.

by **phatj** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 09:15:28

I don't know if they all did this, but when I started college in 1993 the Wawa on College Hill in Easton had a grill and made stuff like cheesesteaks and burgers to order. That was pretty awesome for a wasted suburban teenager at 2 AM.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:24:30

I don't see why swipe cards are such an improvement over tokens.

by **The Dude** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:25:15

cheaper to buy a month's worth?

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:29:01

Well, yeah, if it's cheaper, I guess that would be great. But I like tokens because they don't expire at the end of the month or whatever.

by **The Dude** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:29:55

my wife hates having to go out of her way to buy them every week too (she said it was cheaper with the card, not sure)

by **The Dude** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:32:13

oh plus I can borrow it when i want too, so we save money that way

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