"Prior to last week, I had never eaten at a Wawa. I knew of Wawa's food offerings, because Defector Media has a sizable, and vocal, Philadelphia contingent. The most vocal among that contingent was the late Dan McQuade. McQuade was so intensely Philadelphian that I thought of him any time I encountered anything related to that city, and I still do."
"This goes especially for Wawa, and especially for its sandwiches. I'd pumped gas at a Wawa before, but you and I know that doesn't make for a full Wawa experience. It's like saying you've been to a city because you had a layover there. No, in order to evaluate Wawa correctly, I had to avail myself of all it had to offer. I have now done just that."
A person had never eaten at a Wawa before and knew of its food through Defector Media's vocal Philadelphia contingent, particularly the late Dan McQuade. Encounters with Wawa and its sandwiches evoked McQuade's memory. Prior experiences of pumping gas at Wawa did not constitute a full Wawa experience; a full evaluation required sampling the store's food offerings. Wawa originated as an early 20th-century dairy farm. The name "Wawa" derives from the Lenape word for the Canada goose and references a Delaware County area used by migrating geese. A nearby Wawa provided the opportunity for an initial full visit after a memorial service.
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