This is just so … hippy dippy happy!’ Steve said.

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Wawa’s pushing its yearly Hoagiefest new media-style: with the requisite Facebook, and online video, etc. etc. But like last year, the campaign’s big deal-breaker is a song commissioned by Parry Gripp.

Witness the magic at hoagiefest.com.
The animation, unabashedly high-pitched music and the prospect of a fresh hoagie lights up our innards like psychedelic pot. For Steve it conjures up Woodstock “with maybe a little Up With People thrown into the mix” — for me it’s totally Beatles circa Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

This year, fans can join in the fun by making their own songs or videos, then voting for each other’s. Winning entrants could win a year’s worth or hoagies — or hell, their own Hoagiefest. (What would you do with such a thing?)

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