By adamg on Mon., 6/10/2024 - 11:53 am 
Jocelyn has long wondered about the info booth at one end of Faneuil Hall Marketplace plastered with the names of things supposedly associated with our fair Hub:
Like, I get tradition, baseball, innovations, marathons, and baked beans... But typos, fruit salad, and meat raffles? I've only seen those in Attleboro lol
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Meat Raffles
By anon
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:08pm
Are very much still a thing, even here in Boston. We still have member only clubs, VFW post and others like the K&C. All of them do meat raffles to raise money for charities.
"Boston" Raffles
By WickedAhhhhsome
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:13pm
Grew up in Ashland. Meat raffles there, too. Bleh.
Typos?? Or gyros??
By Charles Bahne
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:27pm
Is that "typos", or is it "gyros" written in the Greek alphabet? (As in the food.)
That was my first thought
By adamg
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:46pm
But here it is from the unshrunken, original photo:
So unless that's a typo for gyro, it's "typos."
I feel sorry for the custodial staff at Faneuil Hall
By BostonDog
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:48pm
They must spend hours each day cleaning up the vomit from all the graphic designers who accidentally look at the booth.
wtf is a meat raffle
By cybah
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 12:52pm
I've lived in MA for 25 years, and nearly 40 as a new Englander, and I have never heard of a meat raffle.
Well let me clarify, I have not heard this phrase before especially not outside of a gay bar...
It is exactly what it sounds like
By brianjdamico
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:06pm
It's a raffle and the prize is meat.
So are the ones
By cybah
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:42pm
So are the ones at a gay bar.. its just a different type of meat.
Do you buy tickets? I've
By Don't Panic
Tue, 06/11/2024 - 4:01am
Do you buy tickets? I've never heard of a meat raffle either and I've lived in Boston until last month when I moved to Milton..
Puzzled
By lbb
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:11pm
Meat raffles I get. What's the fruit salad tie-in? Any ideas?
It's the consolation prize
By makeshift_vicinity
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:32pm
if you are the second name drawn in the meat raffle.
Third prize is
By H
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:43pm
you're fired.
Get them to dine on the fruit
By HGS138
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 2:04pm
Get them to dine on the fruit that is salad!
Meat is for closers
By anon
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 5:40pm
Meat is for closers
I thought it was sadness
By Plen-T-Pak
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 9:23pm
.
We haven't even brought up puppetry yet...
By makeshift_vicinity
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:35pm
Puppets? Puppets with grudges?
Typos tracks
By ChrisInEastie
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:38pm
They clearly forgot to add ‘Tickets’ after Parking
Grudges??
By Hunter
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:41pm
I can see that most things here are available at Quincy Market, but where do I get the grudges?
“Grudges†checks out.
By Cranky
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 1:42pm
“Grudges†checks out.
Typos - The Massachusetts Spy
By Ellie
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 2:10pm
I was curious about the Typos and found on OED.com: "OED's earliest evidence for typo is from 1816, in the Massachusetts Spy, or the Worcester Gazette." Wikipedia tells me the Massachusetts Spy was published in Boston by Isaiah Thomas.
Some Boston or Mass. typo connections?
By Matt Kramer
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 3:42pm
finding "typos" on a sign led me to a little Googling on the subject. Found some connections to typos and our fair region:
The Typo was a name of a newspaper in Boston according to the Library of Congress. The LOC says Huntington Libr Art Gallery & Gardens, San Marino, CA has a copy of the Vol. 4, no. 1 (May 15, 1878) issue
Jeff Deck of Boston got tired of finding typos and decided to form the Typo Eradication Advancement League. He wrote a book about his national journey on this topic "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (available on Amazon).
Boston Typos was the name of baseball club- perhaps made up of printers (their FB page says they competed in the Union Printers International Baseball League Tournament
My theory is that typos are common to Mass. because some people have trouble spelling the names of some Mass. cities and towns: Worcester, Scituate, Aquinnah, Cohasset.... never mind the Os/Oughs Southboro/Southborough, Westborough, Marlborough etc.
They left off Massholes.
By anon
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 4:51pm
They left off Massholes.
Meet Raffles
By CopleyScott17
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 5:57pm
https://all.accor.com/hotel/B3X2/index.en.shtml
Meat Raffles,
By Wiffleball
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 7:01pm
the gentleman thief of my heart?
Embarrassingly painful and
By anon
Mon, 06/10/2024 - 11:47pm
Embarrassingly painful and ignorant.
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