By adamg on Thu., 2/4/2021 - 11:52 am
Katie Trojano at the Dorchester Reporter has been livetweeting Marty Walsh's confirmation hearings as the next labor secretary and reports on a Republican senator trying to blindside Marty Walsh as an elitist East Coast lib with one of those old Andy Hiller-type questions:
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) asks Walsh about the cost of living in Boston, where did he get his last cup of coffee and for how much? Walsh says: "Probably Doughboys Donuts and it was about $1.75."
— Katie Trojano (@katie_trojano) February 4, 2021
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Then he said coffee is free in Kansas.
By anon
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:00pm
As if that was a rebuttal.
Imagine asking someone from
By MattL
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 3:18pm
Imagine asking someone from Boston if they have cheap coffee as if Dunks is some small regional brand the rest of the country hasn't heard of.
Hate to break it to you
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 5:36pm
Dunks isn't a national brand by any stretch.
[img]https://i.insider.com/58334ebcba6eb61c008b5a03?wid...
That said
By Waquiot
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 7:33pm
It is an international brand.
Moreover, it can be found in 4 American time zones.
True
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 8:17pm
I've seen it in Barcelona and Berlin - rude shock!
Here's the honest truth
By Waquiot
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 8:56pm
I knew they were international, and kind of knew some of the countries where they operate, but I somehow randomly chose what turned out to be their second largest market. Who knew?
Midwestern Dunkin
By Whaddayatalk
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 5:00pm
Oh hey, that one dot right in the middle of Illinois is four blocks from my parents’ house.
Two notes. One, Marty adds an apostrophe-ess to
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:08pm
Doughboy Donuts, like there's a Mr. Doughboy and it's his place -- Doughboy's -- as we do for everything here (Legal Sea Food is Legal's, etc. I once wrote a piece about this grammar-nerd peeve of mine, with suggestions to restaurateurs on how to name their places to repel the practice.)
Second, a small coffee at Doughboy is $1.95. Pretty spot on, Mahty.
I thought he was giving more
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:16pm
of a shout-out to Doughboy Police Supply in Revere?
Coffee shop in Southie.
By Lmo
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:19pm
Coffee shop in Southie.
You’re kidding?
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:31pm
Really?
Sorry I didn’t pick up on
By Lmo
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:38pm
Sorry I didn’t pick up on your joke.
Sorry, folks,
By Homer Bedloe
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 5:45pm
Tommy Menino is the only Doughboy receiving my loyalty.
Hypothesis:
By tblade
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:18pm
Hypothesis:
I think if we did a linguistic deep dive we might find that we tend to add an ‘s’ on to company nick names when the full name, when stated, ends in ‘s’. People say Legals (or Legal’s) because the full name is Legal Sea Foods. Some say Dunks or Dunkins because it is (well, was for decades) Dunkin’ Donuts. It would make a linguistic sense if there was a dialectical rule that some of us followed where when we contract full business names that end in an ‘s’ we simply move that s to the end of the short-hand version of that business name.
I am not suggesting we *should* do it this way, this just an observation that may explain the phenomenon. And there is the standard caveat with English that there are plenty of irregularities and exceptions to recognized rules.
I blame...
By Eighthman
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:36pm
... McDonald’s.
In addition to this...
By anon
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 2:09pm
I noticed that people add an "s" to the names of establishments in general, even when there is no "s" in the full name. It seems like an unconscious way of denoting ownership. I have actually heard people say "I'm going to Stop & Shop's", as if it were owned by Mr. Stop & Shop. Though it seems a completely different phenomenon somehow than the people who say "Boston Commons", "Public Gardens" and "Boston Gardens".
One word
By Gary C
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 5:25pm
Caldors
Zayre
By anon
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 8:11pm
Zayre too. Back when it existed, I don't think there was a single person who didn't call it "Zayre's".
Ames’s
By SamW
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 10:25pm
Up in Maine we had Ames’s, deah.
And
By WalkingTheDog
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 6:59am
Zayres
The Book of Revelations
By starstrewn
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 12:23am
...instead of Revelation.
Don't be ridiculous, Stop &
By brianjdamico
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 7:20am
Don't be ridiculous, Stop & Shop has two owners, Mr. Stop and Mr. Shop.
I go to Stawppie's.
By deepfreeze
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 10:05am
I go to Stawppie's.
Coffee
By plt3012
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:42pm
Agreed. A medium regular will run you $2.40.
More
By anon
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 8:40am
If you add in the 7 percent meals tax.
Looking forward to reading
By Scratchie
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 11:32am
Looking forward to reading this. I used to work at Friendly's back in the mid-80s, when the name of the restaurant was still officially "Friendly" (short for "Friendly Ice Cream," the name of the original shop out in western MA). Of course, everyone called it "Friendly's" back then, but at some point they bowed the inevitable and changed the name.
I wouldn't call it a pet peeve of mine, but it's certainly a regional(?) linguistic curiosity that has fascinated me ever since.
I don't think its regional
By fungwah
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 12:18pm
I grew up in the Midwest, and heard a lot of people talk about shopping at Meijer's or Kroger's, despite neither of those actually ending with S.
With you on the possessives tick...
By boo_urns
Sat, 02/06/2021 - 1:57pm
I couldn't help but chuckle at the time stamp of the post (1:54 AM). It was juxtaposed nicely with the first paragraph preface of other peoples' incredulousness that you think about it at all, let alone in the wee hours of the morning. Enjoyed the read, though; thanks for sharing!
What a bag job!
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:14pm
More than obvious that every Congressperson at this hearing heard from their union donors and they want their moronic bag man in office.
Not one question about his abysmal record as Mayor on City contracts going to his white pals, no mention of Boston Calling or Operation Clean Sweep or any of the many fuck ups this idiot has put this town through.
So much for draining the swamp.
Draining the swamp
By Wiffleball
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:46pm
was the last guy. Do try to keep up.
I can see that the nuance
By Brian Riccio
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:29pm
was lost on you. I thought Biden was cleaning out the hacks and the bums.
I'm guessing
By Waquiot
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 4:59pm
You just tried to make a joke here.
Brian - You Are Originally From Revere
By John Costello
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 5:59pm
May we get 6,000 words from you on City Government in that corrupt little burg before you napalm Boston?
You obviously don't follow me on Twitter
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 02/05/2021 - 12:56am
As I'm sure our esteemed webmaster can tell you, I've written a lot more than 6k words on corruption and racism in Revere city government.
Who writes these questions?
By Elise
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 12:32pm
Asking a questions like this just makes the Senator seem out of touch. Anyone, millionaire or not, could easily have just answered "Dunkin" or "Cumberland Farms" and "$2".
Obvi Marty went for the extra points with a small business.
Funny thing is
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 8:21pm
Starbucks ain't much different in price for a basic brewed coffee.
I'm betting Doughboy's doughnuts beat the pants off of dunkinchunks, too.
Sad.
By Rob
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 1:08pm
Sad.
A Republican Senator couldn't even come up with an opportunistic gotcha question that had a couple of teeth, such as "why should we approve a Secretary of Labor who apparently can't capably screen rank-and-file candidates for leadership positions and has to suspend them less than a week after appointing them?"
To many in the GOP
By BostonDog
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 2:16pm
Marty's real fault would be suspending the Chief instead of defending him.
Good question but no answer
By JohnAKeith
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 2:23pm
With smart cards, who knows? Doughboy, no problem but at Dunkin, who knows, esp since prices vary (did you know that?).
I couldn't quote the current bus or subway fare even though I used it every day, and what if you have a pass?
Great answer but the mayor.
If only they had actually pressed him on real issues like when a senator asked him if supported right to work and he gave a nonsensical response and they moved on.
Seeing Marty and Doughboy...
By Friartuck
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 2:48pm
I thought he brewed his own coffee...
Aside from the coffee question ...
By adamg
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 4:56pm
Overview of Walsh's nomination hearing.
What else could I possibly
By DrewD
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 5:56pm
What else could I possibly want to know?
Personally, I'm waiting for
By Rob
Thu, 02/04/2021 - 6:24pm
Personally, I'm waiting for the Sam Adams ad people to do the Your Cousin From Boston version of the confirmation hearing.
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