Spuckies (1985)

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The good folks at rec.food.historic have pointed out that I should have added that Adam Gaffin is the compiler of the Wicked Good Guides/Boston English.

I've looked through the Proquest full-text of the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (Boston?), but no "spuckies."

No "spuckies" that I could see in THE REAL BOSTON UNDERGROUND DINING (1973) by Jerome Rubin and Cynthia Rubin, or THE BOSTON PHOENIX'S GUIDE TO CHEAP EATS (3rd ed., 1975) by Paul A. Silver, et al.

Here are results from the usual databases:


(PROQUEST NEWSPAPERS)
Ocean Beach Works to Erase the `OB Stigma'; [San Diego County Edition]
TOM GREELEY. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 6, 1985. pg. 1
(...)
[Illustration]
PHOTO: Larry DeRosbil, a 10-year resident of Ocean Beach, plays his guitar on the seawall at the foot of Newport Avenue. A surfboard is "parked" in a bike rack at a Newport Avenue bar in Ocean Beach. / VINCE COMPAGNONE / Los Angeles Times June Mahoney sits on the patio in front of the modern Sunset Strip shopping center where she opened Spucky Sandwiches.


(FACTIVA)
WHERE'S BOSTON GLOSSARY
Tom Long, Globe Staff
442 words
17 September 1987
The Boston Globe
THIRD
11
English
(Copyright 1987)

He speaks like a native; it's the highest compliment you can offer to a stranger in a strange land. Though radio and TV have homogenized our language to a distressing degree, Boston's vernacular can trip up a newcomer in less time than it takes to order a spucky and a tonic at the local spa.
(...)
Tonic -- (TOHN-nik). Not a health food drink, as in spring tonic, but tonic as in Coke is it . . . a generic term for soft drinks.
(...)
Quahog -- (KOE-hog). Not a football lineman or an individual member of a tandem of swine, it's a large mollusk, or clam.

Bubbler -- (BUB-lah) Water fountain.

Spucky -- (SPUH-key). South Boston-Dorchester term for a submarine sandwich, hero or grinder.

Spa -- (spah). Convenience store.
(...)
Frappe -- (Frap). No, not a French classical dance step, it's a milk shake with ice cream.

Milk Shake -- (Milk Shayk). Milk with flavored syrup.

Jimmies -- (JIM-eez). Chocolate-flavored sprinkles on ice cream.



(PROQUEST NEWSPAPERS)
Leominster restaurant has flavor of North End
Anna L. Bisol, Staff Reporter. Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Apr 14, 1996. pg. 10

LEOMINSTER - Spuckies on Main Street?

"I was surprised by the numbers of people who know what a spuckie is," Mark DiSessa, owner of Little Marko's Cafe Italiano, said.

For those who don't know what a spuckie is, it's on the menu at the newly opened restaurant located at 41 Main St.

Like many of the other items on the menu, the spuckies are part of DiSessa's childhood. "Growing up in the North End, my mother would make us these sandwiches - subs that were made on a fresh baked Italian roll. The roll was called a spuckie and that's what the sandwiches are called as well," DiSessa said.

"I loved those sandwiches and continued to make them even after I moved out of the North End whenever I could get the bread," DiSessa said.
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(PROQUEST NEWSPAPERS)
FRESH BREAD FOUND HERE; [THIRD Edition]
SACHA PFEIFFER. Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.: Jan 19, 2003. pg. 2
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Meet the Cooch brothers: Richie, Sonny, Cookie, and Michael. This born-and-raised Eastie foursome has been baking excellent breads, pies, cookies, pastries, and pizza since the 1960s, and the brothers' stripped-down bakery near Day Square, with its antique slicing machine and stacked sacks of flour, is a step back in time. Italian bread, fresh-baked seven days a week, is the specialty here, including scali, spuckies, French twist rolls, and finger rolls.


(PROQUEST NEWSPAPERS)
Be afraid - there's a spucky out there with your name on it; [All Editions]
PETER GELZINIS. Boston Herald. Boston, Mass.: Jun 30, 2004. p. 008