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Finally: South Station to get a Dunkin' Donuts
By adamg on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 4:43pm
A Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for permission to open an outlet in the station's food court. Currently, commuters have to walk all the way across Atlantic Avenue or struggle to make their way to Federal Street to get their fix.
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Bus Terminal?
I thought there was a DD in the bus terminal.
No
That's a Honey Dew.
It was
It was a dunkin donuts years ago. I remember getting a coffee there before getting on a bus to go home at Christmas. I think in the past 5-6 years it changed to Honey Dew.
And I keep making this mistake because every time I have to take a bus somewhere I go "oh I can just stop and get a coffee at Dunks inside the bus depot" and sadly I keep forgetting that it was changed to a Honey Dew a few years ago.
Great
As someone who used to make the trek down to Federal St while waiting for the commuter rail, it really wasn't too bad during the warmer months, but it was a brutal trek in the winter. I'll be happy to see it there over the crap coffee ABP serves.
I ordered a regular at the
I ordered a regular at the little cart that used to be there.
Took a sip as I walked away and it was black.
I went back. Gal thought regular was not decaf.
I explained it was 2 cream 2 sugar and light dawned over Marblehead.
English wasn't her first language and she seemed new.
It all made sense to her after that.
You get a lot of variations on a regular these days but that's the only time I got it black.
WABAC machine
Wow, that's a flashback. As a teen, I moved from rural Virginia to New Jersey. The first I got a regular on lifeguard duty when someone went for a coffee run, I had the opposite experience. Down there, regular is black, the melted ice cream style beloved here requires specs — how much sugar, milk or cream or whatever. I still prefer my coffee to be coffee and have learned to make that plain around here.
Down South in college I likewise learned that there a mixed drink meant it had ice and just maybe ginger ale.
Funny. I think you have to
Funny. I think you have to have a regulah as your first coffee around here.
I now drink it with one cream but it's like roullette on what I get.
I usually just go with it unless it's mostly milk an sugar.
Thus Char-bucks and the North End
Learning coffee with the real thing and not wet desserts inside makes Starbucks and others with hearty coffees the more attractive. I remember a lot of years ago Dunkin' had a dark roast worthy of its name for a year or so. One day, I ordered one in a Norwood DD and the middle-aged puller sighed. He said he liked it too, but they didn't sell anywhere near enough to keep it in stock.
Regular or Decaf?
Really? You've never considered that asking for "regular" coffee would mean you'd get a cup of actual coffee?
Oh, wait. I forgot that the sun rises and sets on Bostonians and their epic love of the crap that is Dunkin' Donuts coffee loaded with enough condiments to make it a fancy hot chocolate. And that if you ask for a "regular coffee" you are deserving of nothing less than the exact crap you're used to, no matter where you are or what chain you are ordering from.
Anything else means that the person who served you must be an idiot. As, apparently, every person outside of the 495 belt is.
QED.
Incredibly douchey reply. The
Incredibly douchey reply.
The girl and I laughed about it.
We both saw the absurdity of it from both sides.
She finally knew what the fuck everybody wanted when they said regular.
And call me crazy for expecting a regular to be a regular in south station.
I've done a lot of traveling and don't expect my regional jargon to follow.
You must be the life of the party. .
I recommend anger management
I recommend anger management classes. And moving - far away.
Good point
When it comes to the New Englanders' love of everything related to Dunkins, I do go a bit sideways.
Rereading the comment from the random anon, I now realize that the cart he/she was referring to was a Dunks cart (I think?). That would make sense. So I apologize.
What bugs me is that locals seem to think that everyone loves coffee their way (hence, it being referred to as "regular") wherever they go.
Which is also why I never order a "Tall" coffee at Starbucks when I go. I order a small.
"Tall" vs "Small"
I always thought it was marketing speak until I checked out a Starbucks in Japan. They really do have a size called "Small" there, which makes "Tall" look, ... well, tall.
Starbucks U.S. used to have a
Starbucks U.S. used to have a small that was smaller than a tall.
They still do. It is called a
They still do. It is called a short. It's not on the printed menu, but it exists.
Switch to decaf, dude. What
Switch to decaf, dude.
What bugs me is judgmental people. I don't give a rat's ass how people order or drink their coffee and find it pretty pathetic that you do.
I don't assume much at all, unlike you. I especially don't assume that the use of a local slang phrase implies that's the "regular" way people should be ordering a coffee. It's odd that you make that assumption.
Your assumptions also reveal your ignorance.
I drink coffee many different ways, including espresso in the afternoon or evening after I've eaten.
A large regular in the morning (or with one cream, as I now drink it) is quite a different animal than a large black to me.
I don't have an appetite in the morning so a coffee with cream and maybe sugar gives me a little more energy.
I also couldn't quickly drink a large black coffee on an empty stomach. I'd get jittery and feel unsettled.
But I guess i shouldn't listen to my body but to an internet know-it-all like yourself.
Good Lord.
Listen to yourself first
Judgmental much?
Actually I think he's made a good point that Massholes are really out of their mind when they expect a "regular coffee" means something with a bottle of milk and a container of sugar dumped in it.
And seeing how it's got the local Massholes with their panties in a twist, he may have hit on something raw here...
Interesting.
What's the big deal about
What's the big deal about ordering "regular" that seems to upset you haters?
Do I have to stop my server from bringing me "the usual" b/c it isn't your usual?
I've never seen any assumption by anyone that it's the regular, as opposed to "regular" way to order. To me it was always just shorthand.
Or regular gas. That used to be leaded now it's unleaded. Just the term used. No big deal.
Funny how what I though was a quaint story turns into an anti-Masshole thread.
Seems you and Craig have their panties in much more of a bunch over this than anyone else.
No, what bugs me
is NOT the fact that something called a "regular" exists, it is that natives get restless when they go somewhere OTHER than DD's and assume that everyone knows what they are talking about.
Re-read my second comment. I thought you were not at a DD's. Thus your presumption that the poor non-English speaking kid should know what you're talking about seemed douchey. Now I understand. Chill out.
Douchey is in the eye of the beholder
I hadn't had my coffee yet and ordered it as I normally did back then. Cleared it up with a laugh and probably made the young lady's job a lot easier going forward.
You, on the other hand, make assumptions and take issue with an entire state's (region's?) supposedly presumptive coffee-ordering behavior?
How many times have you seen this Massholish behavior? Did it scar you as a child or something?
Good Lord.
Are you equally outraged if some poor un-caffeinated Seattle "native" orders a venti at HoneyDew?
To paraphrase HL Mencken, does the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is ordering a regular coffee keep you up at night?
BTW, I don't need to chill out- I'm not the one that admittedly gets "sideways" over how people order coffee.
Sweet feathery Jesus
Your reading comprehension skills are just awful.
I think you're onto something here
Dunkin' is the coffee choice of Massholes after all. No surprise then, that Massholes expect everyone else to adopt their lingo and drink their coffee with sickening amounts of sugar.
I would have no idea what
I would have no idea what "regular" was. Why not just say what you want?
Regular WAS saying what you
Regular WAS saying what you wanted back in the day. Why would you try to put together a bunch of words before you had your coffee when everyone knew what you were talking about it?
You wouldn't order a "sweet empanada-like pastry with jelly inside."
Back in the day that's what this order was called in EVERY coffee shop around here.
If someone was making a coffee run you'd tell them regular if that's how you took it.
As far as I know this is was a case of DD's incorporating the local lingo, not a case of creating a corporate vocabulary, a la Starbucks.
I've lived here for 27 years....
... and I still think of a 'regular' coffee as meaning 'not decaf, not espresso, not latte, not cappucino, just plain coffee'. Then I say 'no milk, no cream, just one spoon of sugar', if it's one of the rare places that don't expect me to add that stuff myself.
"Townie" secret, sorry Ron.
"Townie" secret, sorry Ron.
Years Ago @ Dunkins...
When I worked at Dunkin Donuts years ago (early 90s). They trained you on DnD Lingo. From what I remember..
A Regular was Non-Decaf Coffee with Cream and Sugar. Which was..
Small = 1 Spoon of Sugar, 1 Squirt of Cream (half and half)
Medium = 2 Spoons of Sugar, 2 Squirts of Cream
Large = 3 Spoons of Sugar, 3 Squirts of Cream
"Light and Sweet" meant 2x Sugar and Cream
"Dark and Sweet" meant 2x Sugar and 1/2 Cream
I'm sure there was more, but thats all I can remember off the top of my head.
Back then people didnt use artifical sweetners as much as they did now, or worry about fat in the cream. (if you wanted milk or sweet low, you asked for it specifically)
I wish they'd still they'd still teach this, because most don't know what a 'regular' is. I've ordered a "Light & Sweet" far too many times and end up with Skim Milk and 1/2 cup of sugar (gross!). When its far from what it really meant. Light means COLOR, not fat content.
What I found funny was, we were taught this lingo in our store in rural New Hampshire, just because some people from Mass came up and ordered it this way, we'd know what they meant. That and we were suppose to give all Police, EMT, and Firemen free coffee and donuts while in uniform, because it was a "Mass thing" (our store's owners were from Everett).. Funny how our local men in uniform used to fight us when we rang it up as 100% discount...
Homeland Security
Brilliant move by Homeland Security now we will always have a police presence at South Station