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BULKIE ROLL

BULKIE ROLLS--233 Google hits, 26 Google Groups hits


"Bulkie" is not in DARE. I don't know if it's in the forthcoming Encyclopedia
of Food and Drink in America. I think Andy Smith did the "bread" entry.

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Bulkie roll... I thought the Kaiser was a tad softer and eggier... I have
heard Bulkies referred to both as Bulkie Rolls and Bulkies-- and this goes back
to the 1960s. ...
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From: phoebe natkiel (quiddity at usa.pipeline.com)
Subject: Re: Bulkies?
View: Complete Thread (3 articles)
Newsgroups: rec.food.baking
Date: 1996/05/19

A bulkie is thought to be Jewish (perhaps from Polish Jews, albeit I do not
think so.) It is also known as a kaiser roll......a name which might make
people think it is German. bulkie rhymes with pull'-key

On May 17, 1996 06:41:10 in article <Bulkies?>, 'holbrook at apollo.hp.com(Alan
R. Holbrook)' wrote:

>Here in New England (maybe other places, but this is the only place I've  >
noticed...), there is a type of roll sold in local bakeries called a Bulkie  >
(pronounced, I believe, bool-key).  It is supposedly of Polish or Lithuanian
>origin.  I've been unsuccesful in locating a recipe for these to be made at

>home, but if it can be found anywhere, this is probably the place.
>
>Help?
>
>Regards, >Alan Holbrook >No .sig, I just post on impulse.


Message 3 in thread
From: rshepard at teleport.com (rshepard at teleport.com)
Subject: Re: Bulkies?
Newsgroups: rec.food.baking
Date: 1996/05/19

On 19 May 1996 05:38:07 GMT, phoebe natkiel  <quiddity at usa.pipeline.com>
wrote:

>A bulkie is thought to be Jewish (perhaps from Polish Jews, albeit I do not>
think so.) It is also known as a kaiser roll......a name which might make
>
>>Here in New England (maybe other places, but this is the only place I've  >>
noticed...), there is a type of roll sold in local bakeries called a>Bulkie

>>Help?

Well, if a "bulkie" is a Kaiser roll (or hard roll or Vienna roll), it has a
distinctive shape: a five-petaled, rose-shaped design.  If this is what you'er
looking for, Alan, you'll find a fabulous recipe in George Greenstein's
"Secrets of a Jewish Baker".

The past couple of weeks I've used the Vienna roll dough to make Hungarian
Salt Sticks.  YUM!  Grew up with these in NYC but haven't had them since I lived
in Germany in the mid-60's.  If I don't watch myself, I'll eat the whole
batch of 18 in a single sitting.

And thank you to those who recommended Greenstein's book.  It's a real
treasure!

Rich

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WICKED GOOD GUIDE/BOSTON ENGLISH

More from the Wicked Good Guides/Boston English. Someone should do a site
like this for New York.

Below are the selected food-related entries.

http://www.boston-online.com/glossary/ab/index.html

American chop suey
Has nothing to do with Chinese food (then again, only in Boston do Chinese
restaurants serve French rolls): Macaroni with hamburg, a little tomato sauce
and a bit of onion and green pepper.

B'daydas
You can serve them mashed, or whipped or boiled.

Bazo
Drunk, at least in Southie.
Jonathan E. Dyer

Bubbla
That's a water fountain to you, bub.

Bulkie roll
A soft, fluffy roll, you know, like a Kaiser roll. Only in Boston are they
sometimes served at Chinese restaurants.
Kelly Holmes

Bundle
Grocery bag.

Chowdahead
Stupid person. The phrase has spread westa Wihsta, but it's definitely of
local origins. Casserine Toussaint reports: "It comes from back when people would
make a massive bucket of chowder and lay a clean rope in it so that when they
put it into the unheated back room it would freeze solid and could be hung
up. They'd slide off the bucket by putting a hot towel on it and voila! Anyone
wanting a bowl of chowder went in and chipped off a piece to be warmed up on
the stove. After a while the frozen block of chowder took on a round shape, like
a head."

Coffee regulah
Coffee with some cream and two sugahs.

Dunkie's
A donut shop found roughly every 1/10th of a mile on every street in greater
Boston.
Eric Vroom

Egg rolls
Large, fluffy rolls, a.k.a. kaiser rolls.
Reuven Brauner

Frankfurt
Hot dog. You can find them in the meat depahtment, neah the hamburg. Served
on Massachusetts frankfurt buns, which are mostly white on the outside.

Frappe
A milkshake or malted elsewhere, it's basically ice cream, milk and chocolate
syrup blended together. The 'e' is silent. Despite the chocolate syrup, it
actually comes in many flavors. "My favorite was a coffee frappe with two scoops
of ice cream in Guild's Drug Store (pronounced like guile), which stood on
Boylston and Exeter until this past year when they wrecked it,'' Dee Burton
reported in 1997.

Fudicle
A Boston Fudgsicle.
netexpert

Gravy
Tomato sauce. Primarily heard in the over-40 set in East Boston.
KJMac

Green Death
Haffenreffer Private Stock Malt Liquor (refers primarily to the 16 oz.
bottles).
Michael Howell

Grinda
A sub or spuckie. Annette Leonard reports that in Saugus, it is specifically
a toasted sub.

Half moon
Pastry known as "Black and Whites" elsewhere.
Reuven Brauner

Hamburg
Ground meat. Sometimes found near the frankfurts.

Hermits
Molasses cookies.
Jane Morris

Hoodsie
1. A small cup of ice cream, the kind that comes with a flat wooden spoon
(from H.P. Hood, the dairy that sells them). KC Black reports: "Part of their
charm was on finishing them you'd suck and then fold the wooden spoon risking
splintahs from the folded wood." To which Dee Burton adds: "The lid had a
brown-tone picture of a movie star covered by a thin layer of protector paper that
you peeled off. Sure wish I'd kept those covers. Police used to give us free
Hoodsies and free movies on the morning of July 4, in the days when fireworks
were legal in Mass. (that's how far back I go!).''
2. Certain teen-aged girls, who, like the ice cream, are "short and sweet and
good to eat." Jo Ann Kendricken recounts: "Growing up in Roslindale (scooping
went on here and in W. Roxbury as well as Hyde Park), I was a hoodsie, and
now when I tell people that, they automatically call me a 'Rozzie chick/rat' and
say, 'So, you are a tough girl, aren't you? Better not mess with you!' For
the record, I have never been in a fight, but it's nice to know that no one will
mess witcha!'

Jimmies
Those little chocolate thingees you ask the guy at the ice-cream store to put
on top of your cone. The multi-colored ones are "sprinkles."

Kegga
A beeah bash.

Live 'n' kickin'
The only kind of lobstahs you'll find at Boston deli countahs:

Milkshake
Milk with some flavored syrup, but NO ice cream.

Packie
A package store; wheah you buy beah.

Packie run
What you make when you go downna Mahty's, Blanchahd's oah some otha packie to
pick up some beah for a kegga.

Penuche
The fudge equivalent of mystery meat.
Jane Morris

Rawregg
An uncooked egg.
Linda Petrous

Reefah
Refrigerator.


Roll
A bun stuffed with some sort of seafood salad, for example, a "lobsta roll."
Often served on Massachusetts frankfurt buns, which look like they've been
turned inside out (i.e., the outside of the bun is as white as the inside).

Sangwich
Sandwich. Alicia from Meffid reports: "My Nonna used to say, "Take your
sangwiches out on the piazza."

Scrod
A small, ambiguous piece of fish that never knows if it's cod or haddock.
Some people claim that "scrod" is a young cod, while "schrod" is a young haddock,
but, in fact, there's no difference - it's basically whatever's cheaper at
the fish pier that day.

Spa
A luncheonette or ma-and-pop convenience store (e.g., the Palace Spa in
Brighton). Store 24s are never spas.

Spider
A frying pan. Now largely obsolete; refers to old-style pans that had legs to
keep them off the coals.
Connie Nowlan

Spuckie
Sometimes, spukie. What some Bostonians still call a sub or hero (there's
even a sub shop in Dorchester called Spukies 'n Pizza). Some people refuse to
believe it's real, but it must be, because the Middlesex News wrote about it in
1993. From spucadella, a type of Italian sandwich roll you can still buy at
some of the bakeries in the North End and Somerville.

David Keene reports: " 'Spuckie' is indeed a Boston word. It is not used much
anymore, the older Italians used it. Growing up in Chelsea we alway bought
'spuckies' at Gallo's market. My wife bought spuckies at the Italian stores in
Eastie when she was a kid. The word is not used much anymore, because there are
so few of us that know what it means." Richard Karasik, meanwhile, recalls
that "Santarpio's pizza parlor (in Eastie) was the center of spuckie heaven."

Squeet
"Let's go eat," at least in Lynn.
Paul Hebert

Suppa
Meal served around 6 p.m.
The Hudson family

Tonic
A carbonated beverage, you know, like Coke or Moxie. Oldtimers remember
before the supamahket chains went all national and had "tonic" and "diet tonic"
signs above their aisles.