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Cumbie's

A Cumberland Farms mini-mart: "Heeya's five bucks; go downa Cumbies and gemme a pagga butts."
Douglas K. Lennan

Comments

Why don't you have 'butts' in the B section. Now that I live in Virginia nobody knows what I mean when I say "I need a butt!(cigarette)".

shelly on April 13, 2004 12:56 AM.

we call cumberland farms "cumbie's" in Little Rhody too. Not evvvvverything is strictly a Bawston thing.

sarah on June 27, 2004 11:05 PM.

Ditto, Sarah. Also used here in Vermont

Steve on August 21, 2004 06:58 AM.

I work at Cumby's... We spell it with a y... Anyway I've worked their for ova a year... An add-on to this one is the Cumby's Crew, meaning everyone who works there or hangs out there all the time... Our Cumby's Crew consists of the majority of employees who are mostly college students who work there and sometimes live there and our friends who have no lives and hang there...

Leia on October 10, 2004 06:14 PM.

Yup, use 'Cumby's' in CT too!!

Kel on April 3, 2005 04:31 AM.

I agree with sarah. We call those stores Cumby's down here in Connecticut too. ;-)

Ken on June 11, 2005 09:44 PM.

actually the first time i ever heard it being called 'cumby's' was on NESN commercials. thought it was pretty funny.

Grant on March 2, 2006 10:07 AM.

I grew up in Brighton and there was a cumberland farms there and it was always so dirty we called it scumbys

David on March 29, 2006 08:13 PM.

I grew up in Nashua NH and went to school in Vermont. We trained everyone who came from out of New Englad to go to "Cumbie's" because nothing else was open past 9 PM!

Anastasia on June 28, 2006 03:18 PM.

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