We love Wawa. We will defend Wawa from outsiders and go there at 11 p.m. for a pretzel that has absolutely no business being as satisfying as it is.

But sushi? Wawa is testing six varieties of prepackaged sushi, including Philadelphia rolls, spicy shrimp crunch rolls, and three kinds of California rolls, at stores in Media, West Chester, Glen Mills, and Exton. They cost more than $9 and come with soy sauce, wasabi, and ginger, but apparently no chopsticks.

The sushi is made by an outside company that also supplies to supermarkets; there isn’t somebody behind the Wawa deli counter rolling raw salmon next to the Shortis. Still, there are some boundaries that don’t need testing.

And before Wawa branches into sushi, could we perhaps revisit the things people actually miss about Wawa?

Bring back the deli meat slicers. Bring back the fresh Amoroso rolls. Make the hoagies taste like the Wawa hoagies people still talk about from 15 years ago.

The Inquirer’s brave taste-tester drove 23 miles to try the sushi and found a sad Philly roll with mushy avocado and a spicy shrimp roll that was merely “fine.” Neither got finished.

Wawa doesn’t need to be everything. It just needs to be really good at being Wawa again.

Remember when the Eagles’ offensive line felt like the one thing we never really had to worry about?

That suddenly seems like a very long time ago.

On Tuesday, Lane Johnson retired four games into the season after nearly 14 years with the Eagles. On Wednesday, the Eagles traded Cam Jurgens, the two-time Pro Bowl center who was drafted to succeed Jason Kelce, to Baltimore.

In about 24 hours, two Pro Bowl offensive linemen were gone.

And this when Landon Dickerson is on injured reserve. Jeff Stoutland left in February. The offense has struggled through a 2-2 start. The Eagles knew for years that Johnson could retire at any time, and Jurgens had already been dealing with injuries and uncertainty of his own.

There are reasons to understand both departures. Johnson had been thinking about retirement and said he wants to prioritize his mental health and spend more time with his family. Jurgens had struggled after moving to left guard, while Drew Kendall played well enough at center to make the Eagles comfortable moving on — and getting a 2028 second-round pick could look pretty smart eventually.

But Kelce retired in 2024. Stoutland is gone. Now Johnson and Jurgens are gone. The Eagles spent years building the best offensive line in football, and suddenly, it feels like we’re watching it get dismantled in real time.

More than 100,000 people signed petitions. Thousands packed the museum for its final weekend. The William Penn Foundation offered to cover Drexel’s operating support for at least a year.

And yet the Academy of Natural Sciences is still closed, with seemingly no actual rescue plan.

That may be the most frustrating part of this whole saga. There is clearly enormous affection for the Academy, and there may even be money available to buy time. But as Inquirer reporter Peter Dobrin points out, donors generally don’t throw millions of dollars at a problem without knowing what, exactly, they’re being asked to save or what the plan is once they save it.

Meanwhile, Drexel still hasn’t accepted or rejected the William Penn Foundation’s offer, and the two institutions remain in talks.

The alternative could be much worse than a temporarily closed museum. One scenario described to The Inquirer would essentially break the Academy apart, sending its 19 million specimens, library, research operation, and live animals to different institutions while eliminating the Academy as the distinct place generations of Philadelphians know.

There is clearly no easy fix here. But there is public support, potential funding, and an institution worth fighting for.

Someone needs to turn all that goodwill into an actual plan before there’s nothing left to save.

Sometimes it takes a disappointed Eagles fan to ask the question nobody else is brave enough to ask.

“What’s happening at halftime? Are we eating meatball subs?”

That was Dan Price’s assessment after Sunday’s Eagles loss, delivered to CBS Philadelphia.

The clip went viral, landed on New Heights and NFL on Fox, and earned Price a place in the long tradition of extremely quotable Eagles fans.

But Price decided to do something useful with his 15 minutes. He’s selling “Are we eating meatball subs?” T-shirts for $25, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Philly PAWS, combining what he calls the two biggest loves of his life: animals and the Eagles.

A bad Eagles halftime, an unexpected postgame interview, and meatball subs somehow turned into money for homeless animals. This is what going viral should be for.

Some crimes are so specifically Philadelphia that the location is almost unnecessary.

Three men broke into a tractor-trailer in Northeast Philly around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday and stole four pallets of ground beef valued at about $40,000 — all while the driver was asleep inside the truck.

Forty. Thousand. Dollars. Of ground beef.

The thieves arrived prepared, too. Police say they loaded the meat into three vehicles and drove off. Somewhere in Northeast Philly right now, somebody either has the world’s most suspicious freezer or is about to host one hell of a cookout.

And this is apparently becoming a thing. Just last month, thieves stole half a pallet of Black Angus beef ribs from a truck in South Philly.

Forget catalytic converters, we’re stealing hamburgers now.

We knew getting LeBron James was going to cost the Sixers a lot of money.

Apparently we’re paying for him, too.

One fan interviewed by The Inquirer paid as little as $7 to see the Sixers last season. This year, the cheapest ticket she could find for a November game was $85 in what she described as “the roof.”

Her solution was reasonable: “You almost want them to not be that good, so you can go to the games.”

And Philly isn’t the only place paying the LeBron tax. Sixers road tickets are averaging four times more than last season, including in Cleveland, where a $9 get-in price last year has jumped to at least $121. Sixers-Knicks at Madison Square Garden? Nearly $1,000 just to get in.

That’s the price of becoming the team everybody suddenly wants to see.

The Eagles are headed to London this weekend, and apparently London has been preparing for us.

Thousands of Birds fans arriving for Sunday’s game can find cheesesteaks on custom-baked rolls, citywide specials, and five Philly-themed bars from Passyunk Avenue. There’s even Pizzeria Beddia pizza at the new Bar Etna.

Passyunk Avenue is going especially hard for Eagles week, with a three-day “Wooderloo Terminal Market” modeled after Reading Terminal, cheesesteaks being handed out from a double-decker bus near London landmarks, a game-day street party, and even a postgame “victory parade” that is apparently happening whether the Eagles win or not.

The Brits have embraced cheesesteaks, chicken parm, and wings. Roast pork sandwiches, however, haven’t caught on quite as well.

Still, Eagles fans are flying across the Atlantic and finding citywides and cheesesteaks waiting for them.

London might not know what to do with roast pork yet but give us the weekend.