Posted on 09/19/2024 3:17:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Josh and Ollie, two best friends from the UK, travel the world trying new food to introduce to friends back home. The food is reviewed on their YouTube channel, Jolly.
Recently, Josh and Ollie stopped at a Wawa.
“We heard in Philly they have a Buc-ee’s rival—Wawa. It’s impressive. It could have been called Wow Wow but it wasn’t,” the two friends report.
Most of their visit was spent trying to figure out how to order from the Wawa kiosk, “an overwhelming experience” because of the “infinite choices.”
They had to ask an associate how to finish the order.
“You can tell no one’s ever asked that before,” said one of the Brits.
They loved the warm cookie.
“In the UK if you were on a road trip and could just get a warm cookie like that. You’d be a happy man,” one of them reported.
They also enjoyed the frozen cappuccino, meatball hoagie, and Italian hoagie.
Plus mac and cheese. “So if you don’t have any teeth. Yeah. This is what you should order.”
The corn bread was also excellent, they said, like a cornbread Twinkies.
In conclusion, Wawa “felt like a place dedicated to long road trips.”
You can see their entire first visit to Wawa experience in the YouTube video below.
(Excerpt) Read more at delco.today ...
From the photos, that’s no competition for a Bucees.
‘Jolly’ is a lot of fun.
Only someone who has been to Wawa and never has been to Buc-ees could say something about that dumb.
“ They had to ask an associate how to finish the order.
“You can tell no one’s ever asked that before,” said one of the Brits.”
No worries boys, I need help too.
It’s been many years, but last time I was in England the concept of a store open 24/7 was non-existent.
Buc’ees is meant to be enormous, something like the Truck Stop of America. Wawa is the ultimate American convenience store. They aren’t competition.
P.S. Wawa is a town outside of Philthadelphia where it began.
PP.S. Wawa in Japanese is 和々, or ultimate peace.
I grew up doing labor construction work from 17 to 22. Wawa was my lifeline. A bagel with cream cheese and coffee for breakfast, and a paper cup of soup and a hard roll for dinner. Almost every stop there bumped me into a friend or neighbor that was important in my life. Remember! They started the chain of hundreds of stores before convenience stores began selling gasoline. Just deli, baked goods, the best coffee in the world, hot soups, doughnuts, fountain sodas, hot dogs, and fresh sandwiches made on the spot in front of you.
It's great to see that the toxic "gas station mini mart" has no place in defining their brand.
To me “Wawa” is short for “Warszawa” (Warsaw).
I think they visited there as well. They have a YT channel.
I thought Wawa was the native American word for the geese flying at night that are visible in front of the full moon?. That’s why it’s their logo. The Japanese thing works for me too.
They’ve been to Buc-ees. They did a great video on it. Took hubby to Buc-ees for the first time ever earlier this year. He loved it!
We can’t have anything that awesome here in BLUE NYS. They have these “Green Apple Trot” heavily gov’t subsidized food courts along the NYS Thruway which are absolutely pathetic.
I was raised outside of Philadelphia. Wawa rocks.
However, I must confess that Sheetz is better.
Of course there is the British definition of a “sandwich” (and it ain’t the Earl’s original idea)
Is that reawy baba Wawa? Wow
There is a Wawa town in western Ontario.
Geese images abound.
it was just a dairy (the old dairy building is still on US 1, but the grazing cows, mostly guernsies, are long gone) when I was a kid, the days of to the door milk delivery, the glass bottles kept on big chunks of ice in the back of the step van. In the late 60’s they went to convenience store, there were very few of the bigger competitors like 7-11 or Circle K in the philly area; I thought it was ironic they got rich selling cigarettes. Their slogan on millions of milk cartons in school cafeterias was: WaWa... to the American Indian it meant wild geese flying. To you it means the freshest in milk.
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