Editing Philadelphia Hoagie (section)

== Origins ==

Multiple origin stories compete, none definitively documented:

* '''Hog Island''' — Workers at the Hog Island shipyard during World War I supposedly created or named the sandwich. "Hog Island" became "hoagie" through linguistic evolution.
* '''Street vendors''' — Italian immigrants selling sandwiches on "hokey" (meaning unreliable) income sources may have created the name.
* '''Al DePalma''' — A jazz musician who worked at a Philadelphia deli claims to have coined the term in the 1930s.

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