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Coffee regulah

Coffee with some cream and two sugahs.

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Oh my god! i was working at dunky's, and these people asked for a medium regular coffee, so i did the usual.. 3 creams and 3 sugars.. the guy said "oh i wanted it regular!" and i just looked at him and said.. "well.. it is" he said something like "oh, well i'm from texas (or minnesota, somewhere far away from new england) and a regular has nothing in it." and i said "we call it black" and i dumped it out and made him a black coffee :-)

Sheila on June 13, 2004 09:16 PM.

When I worked in restaurants regular coffee was with cream and sugar.

Fred Sennott on June 14, 2004 07:14 PM.

Sheila, not ever place in the world, medium regular coffee means 3 creams 3 sugars... Thats why Dunkin Donuts Corp. said we have to repeat back the order to the customer before we make any mistake...
Your manager should told you that. :P

PS: Using this space... I want thanks our customers for your bussines
Portland - Maine

MA on June 15, 2004 07:35 PM.

what about coffee dahk??

Sara on March 20, 2005 07:46 PM.

A couple of notes about regalah coffee:

1. In addition to regular coffee, there is also the related concept of regular sugar. When ordering coffee at Dunkin' Donuts in the Irish Riviera one day, the cashier asked me if I wanted "regular sugar" (I had asked for no cream). I thought she meant real sugar rather than artificial, but regular sugar means the amount of sugar in a regular coffee. That one sure woke me up!

2. In most of the rest of the country, regular coffee means black. But in western Mass., it means neither. You order a regular coffee and they don't know which you mean.

impropernewtonian on August 16, 2005 11:53 PM.

"Regular coffee" would be a medium unflavored, caffinated coffee.
However "Coffee Regular" is unflavored, caffinated coffee with two milks and two sugars.
"Large coffee regular." "Medium hazelnut regular" etc.
I usually get it Extra Light from Dunkin's. (I hope "Dunkins" is in this glossery)

katey on August 31, 2005 06:58 PM.

yeah but you can only ask for that at local places or Dunkins... the fags in starbucks dont have a friggin clue what you are talkin about

Jarrod on September 15, 2005 12:49 PM.

Evidently Boston is not the only place where a "regulah coffee" has lotsa cream and sugar... That's the way everybody in New Orleans drinks it. From http://www.gumbopages.com/yatspeak.html :"REGULAH COFFEE - Not "Black Coffee" as in the rest of the country. "Regular" includes lots of sugar and cream. To drink black coffee in New Orleans will cause people to look at you as though you are from another planet. As a Café du Monde waiter was quoted in a Bunny Matthews "F'Sure!" comic strip, admonishing a tourist who had ordered black coffee, "Lissen cap ... I gotta tell ya, nobody drinks dis kinda cawfee black. So I ain't responsible if ya have a hawt attack 'r sump'in ..."

Scott P. on June 27, 2006 02:08 AM.

its simple. . if ur in boston. . or at dunkies. . sm. reg= 2 creams 2 sugars
md. reg.= 3 creams 3 sugars
lg. reg. = 4 & 4 . . and so on. .
dark means regular sugar depending on size with one less cream. . light with one more cream. . its not that serious. .

DOT GiRL on March 5, 2007 08:07 PM.

I was at Penn Station on my way home one time, and it was early, so I went to Dunkin's and silly me forgot that "coffee regular" means a whole lot of nothing in New York-ese. I got some stares and asked if I wanted milk or cream. They also don't add sugar; you do it yourself. Completely new to me.

Alana on October 23, 2007 11:11 AM.

I ordererd a regulah coffee at a little stnad in Station recently. Walked away and found it was black.
When I went back I the gal asked what was wrong.
Explained to her that regualr meant 2 creams and sugars.
A light bulb went off. She had had no idea why all these people were ordering regular.
Pretty much a lost phrase outside of Dunkies.

dot rat on November 22, 2007 10:01 AM.

A regular coffee in the NYC area means cream, two sugars ... it's basically where it all started. So, you Bostonians can thank New York for that one, too.

And that Dunkin Donuts in Penn Station is a disgusting nightmare. Any other one does it for you.

hurrrr on December 10, 2007 02:04 PM.

the words regular and black are two different words...they should be two different coffees..happy drinking

SALT on December 17, 2007 11:12 AM.

Kinda funny, sorta-Boston Dunk's story.

My mom was a cop in Malden since before I was born. When she picked me up after school, we'd go to Dunk's. Every day, she would get a large hazelnut medium-light. Around Malden, they knew what she was talking about, but when she went into Chelsea, she had to say exactly how many creams and sugars she wanted, then repeat the size.

10+ years later, I walk into a Dunks and ask for a medium regular medium-light. Prolly didn't help that some dumb high school broad was working behind the counter, but everyone in the place gave me a look like I was speaking french. I had to explain that it wasn't dark, it wasn't light, it was medium leaning more towards light. Then had to say, "Plain coffee, 3 sugars, medium size."

"...So you want a medium coffee, light with three sugars?"

Jill on June 9, 2008 11:42 AM.

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