Some Bostonians call it a 'spuckie', but what exactly is it?
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- Some Bostonians call it a 'spuckie', but what exactly is it?
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"And before you know it I was the King of spuckies".
The way he said it was like a mobster 😂😂
I think you're on to something. lol
He is THE DON of Spuckies.
@@bdh3949 "..."
65 Y.o. Lifetime Bostonian and have never heard the word “spuckie” muttered by anyone born after 1945
New Deal is the Real Deal !
@@philrisotto8804 nah Chinese immigrants aren't Boston lol
@@Shel230 immigrants are as American as it gets bud
@@dsfgasdgqweq3456t534 no there not lol you sound dumb
Did you know buddy McLean?
I'm only came to Boston in 1981 as a college student, but I remembered that some folks called them spuckies. Oh and that laugh while the reporter was eating the chourica was wonderful to hear. Pure joy!
the college thing didn’t take, yeah? LOL
I only came to Boston ...
English 101
@@lindamon5101 Have you met English? Bastard child of dirt farmers and dead empires, French when it's fashionable, German when no one's looking. Who cares what the sandwich is called, so long as it's good?
what happened to the good ole days when you would leave after graduating....WTF have you clowns done to our city?
Lived here my whole life and never ever heard of this shit
My granddad owned a grocery store in Roxbury. HIS dad owned it during the depression so were going back 100 years. Granddad always called it a sub. He made tens of thousands of them. I expect he got the word "sub" from HIS dad, and his customers must have gotten...subs from him. So yeah, I never heard this shit either. Saw it on some old signs but I bet almost all of those places are loooong gone.
LOL!!
Call it whatever you want but after almost 50 years living in MA I've never heard anyone outside the north end call them Spuckies. It's always grinder or sub.
My Family had bread bakery in Malden and I remember the spuky bread ( split ) and Scalie bread.Grinders growing up were usually subs toasted in oven
grew up in Southie 50's 60's ate spuckies everyday. Spuckies had an Italian influence lots of everything but what made it a spuckie was that incredable bread ,very similiar to french bread but I'm sure some Italian guys got up very early in the morning to make it . i.m sure theres still some great spuckie joints out there maybe someone could publish a list. i'd love to join a spuckie club. My fav was an imported Italian cold cut with everything on it but your fingers (olive oil ) no mayo I.m an Irish kid , the old Italian guys would chase you out of the store if you ever asked for mayo. yea I miss those Days and I will be going to Revere soon
Nice input very cool
Bakers are unsung heroes of society. Not pastry chefs. Bakers. Those men and women who wake up at 4 am to make fresh bread
Get the fuk outta hereeeeeeeee I ate spucks also
Lived in Boston many years, was born there. Never heard this uttered. My grandparents lived in Dorchester. I lived in Rossie and JP for 20 years, and after that suburbs within walking distance of Boston. My Mom's from Dorchester. Four brothers four sisters family still lives in that same damn house. My Dad is from Boston and so were his folks, they were Roxbury back when it was a very nice part of town, 90 years ago. Then granddad sold his business and moved to Westie to retire. I went to school in Westie. I have seen 'SPUCKIE" on (old) signs. Never heard it actually used, in my 51 years.
I too lived in Dorchester for my first 18 years and never have I known a sub to be called a spuckie.
I got Charles River running through my veins and this is my first time hearing a sub being call a "Spuckie". It must be an Italian thing. I'm Irish and don't talk like I'm choking on my balls.
@@newlibertarian139 My Dot family was off the boat Italian. My grandmother was sent to the US to get her away from Mussolini's regime before WWII. Spuckie is not an Italian thing.
@@bbb462cid Spuckie is slang for Spuccadella - an Italian-American bread roll. The word does not exist in Italian but may be derived from the Italian word Spaccatella - a kind of panino or bread roll with rounded ends, ideal for making sandwiches. Sorry if my comment was insulting in any way. It was not intended.
Without the North End Italian community, the greater Boston area would be a far less richer place. I remember taking the T from Lynn to hit up Regina Pizzeria for a slice and grab a cannoli at a local deli as a kid way back in the 70s. It left me very curious about Italian culture and dreaming of what it would be like to live and eat in an Italian home. When I moved closer to the RI border, I'd drive to Atwell's Ave in Providence and got gobsmacked by the variety of Italian foods. You eat culture with your mouth.
So glad your family made here to escape that dreadful time. My great great grandfather migrated during the potato famine. His grandson married a beauty queen from New Jersey whose mother was killed by the Nazis for being a Jew while escaping the Nazi invasion into USSR during Operation Barbarossa.
@@newlibertarian139 I see the point but you may also note in addition to that Boston, is not actually in Italy and many Italians- my family included- would not even allow Italian to be spoken in their homes.
That's a revere thing..been in Massachusetts for 47 years..never ever heard of that before...
New deal. Amazing for cold subs has been there my whole life (35) and if your looking for a hot sub especially meatball check out mannes next door.
You mean, "Ra-VEE-ah".
Never a species. It's a sub
Ok... born and raised in Boston. Lived here for 58 years and never once heard the term "spuckie" we called them grinders. I'm thinking this might be a family thing or this guys specific neighborhood.
sub
Never heard it also,
It originates from the Italian bread spuccadella.
@@jayytee8062 wow! that does make it understandable. still i only heard the word once before.
All the names are used interchangeably but there is actually a difference which is based on the bread or the fillings. Spuckies are like Submarine Sandwiches. Grinders though are toasted. Po-boys are filled with fried fillings, like shrimp. Hoagies are crusty but not toasted and there are regional variants that are actually just one of these others...like a "Blimpie".
yeah i call them all sandwiches
yes, grinders are toasted!
Only a social misfit or a retarded kid says spucky
In New Orleans (where "poboys" originated), this sandwich wasn't always limited to "fried" meats only, you used to find neighborhood stores selling sliced cold cut meats similar to the hoagie sandwich such as, luncheon meat, bologna, salami, liver cheese, with or without sliced cheese all made made with crusty french bread instead of the hoagie baguette used in other cities, there's ALL kinds of meats used to make poboys in New Orleans COLD OR HOT such as "Patton's (fried) hotsausage, roast beef, oyster loaf, shrimp loaf, catfish, etc. there are terms to describe the way these (poboys) are made and served in New Orleans, you can say that you want your sandwich "dressed" which means that you want mayonnaise, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles. 🥖 😋 ⚜️
Grinders aren't toasted lol - stop making shit up. Next you'll tell me your favorite sandwich is a blumpkin
My parents came from Southie, & called it that.
They Moved to Quincy in 79, I grew up hearing it...such as parlor.
Yup!
MAKES ME WANNA GO BACK TO BOSTON FOR SOME OF THE AMAZING FOOD WE MISSED.
My Italian family from Malden always called the bread "Spukies". "We're serving subs for 7 of us, so stop at the bakery and pick up 18 spukies. Fresh!" The sub roll is the spuki (as both of the guys say in one way or another), and the sandwich is a sub (or submarine sandwich for the shape). My understanding is that it comes from the Italian word "spucadella".
3:01 she bites, Anthony says “nice” proceeds to look straight to camera. I can’t.
I think that guy Anthony was on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares
Lived in revere 5 years as a flight attendant. From Joshua Tree California. Reveah will always be in my hahht. Miss it every day
In central MA it’s also a grinder. Amazing how different language can be in such a small state.
We are a relatively small state but we are extremely regionalized.
Living in South Jersey where there are plenty of hoagie shops, I have to say that those spuckies are some great looking sandwiches. 😋
I’m envious.
Of course you realize that in Philadelphia if you call a hoagie by any other name you will be beaten severely by rabbid Philadelphia eagles fans and the name eagles is pronounced..... IGGILS 🤨🤨🤨😂😂. And by the way 41... 33 .. final ! ! !
When I worked at a deli making sandwiches for people, it really broke my heart that I couldn't put more meat or cheese on it, than was authorized by the management!
My idea was that if you weren't stingy and gave the customers a bit more than you normally would, you could then be assured of their coming back!
Look at Mr. Smart business man over here. That's what In 'n' out does with their fries. They dump extra in the bag. It's cheap for them but you feel you got your money's worth
From the great Alan Sherman, I share with you, this,:
Do not make a stingy sandwich, pile the cold cuts high;
customers should see salami coming through the rye...
Yup
You are absolutely correct my friend.
It’s called running a business dude .. I know this might be a big concept for you but every product cost money and the more you over serve the more the cost of the item will be to the customers..
You go to the supermarket, get the long bread(Italian, whatever), get the meats you want, get the veggies you want, come home and do some minimal sauteing, put them all together in a high heap, put the spices and sauces you want, and you got the best whatever for yourself, that no one else has created at that moment in the world, or ever. That's what cooking is. No big deal.
Oh my God this is sacrilege we never cook the meat of a hoagie it i against the laws of nature and all things good and pure 😀
I just had dinner now I’m hungry again,thanx to this video.
There was actually a shop called Spukies in Dudley station
Call it what you want. That is just a friggin delicious lookin sandwich. Yeah, sandwich. Meat and fixings between bread. Man I wish I had a good Italian deli near me. I’m stuck with Jersey Mike’s, subway (nope), and the grocery store (also nope). I’ll drive 5 miles to jimmy John’s if I need something passable. Otherwise, I gotta drive to Baltimore suburbs to get this stuff here. Mouth watering.
Man, I hope these types of places stay open forever.
i lived in boston area from 1965 to 1975. lived in the north end, somerville, and cambridge. i remember going to bella mios by davis square. alwas got a 'sub' there. they baked their own bread every morning. i only remember hearing 'spuckie' one time, in cambridge. a guy named 'sidewalk' or jerry carried a kitten around in his army jacket. totally mystified when he said, 'spuckie roll'. that was 50 years ago. here it is again!
That's every man's dream sandwich on Saturday or Sundays any game day
I have been living in The Boston Area for over 200 Years, and I have never heard the word, “ Spuckie “. But, I have seen a Pizza Spot in Lower Mills called, “ Spuckies “.
Chourico -- must be etymologically related to the Spanish "chorizo." However you spell it, it looks great! Now I'm sitting here in Texas, wanting to take a culinary tour of Massachusetts!
No stay In Texas we don't need any Spanish people in Boston no one cares about Spanish food
Chourico is Portuguese sausage
Chouriço is a Portuguese type of Chorizo. Chouriço with grilled onions on a sandwich is called a Chouriça Sandwich.
When I wasn’t cleaning bathrooms or solving easy math problems we just called them subs at Subway.
Anthony was part owner of a restaurant in the North End, the restaurant was on gorgon ramsey kitchen nightmares. Good guy.
It's not Chourica, it's Chouriço! I grew up in FR in the 60s/70s and don't remember that a chourico and fries sandwich was a thing.
Bro Anthony was an owner on Kitchen Nightmares! Thats crazy I knew i recognized his voice
I'm sure many can tell that Portuguese and Spanish share a very strong similarity. Since you have this understanding maybe you have heard of something similar to the Portuguese sausage featured at the end of this video.... The Spanish would call it chorizo where the Portuguese call it chourico
You can tell by the film quality this is before Covid!!! LMFAO LOL 😆 🤣 😂 Where are the peppers???
wtf are you guys talking about lmao. ive lived in boston my entire life and this has never been said ever.
You're probably in Cambridge where they call them shmuckies.
"Is there a proper way to dig into this hogie?!" "Yes, start by calling it a sandwich."
Crazy, here in Hawaii the Portuguese sausage is one of our main meats for breakfast besides fried spam and vienna sausage. Even our McDonald’s sells a Portuguese sausage breakfast platter.
In California we called it linguica and it was delicious.
ono!
Shayna, this was an excellent presentation of these sandwiches no matter who calls them what. My 2 favorites are my hometown favorite Philly Cheesesteak and Italian Hoagie. I ate quite a few growing up there. Now my favorite is the Rocky Mountain Oyster sandwich either plain or with sauces. It's a Colorado thing I think. I don't have a lot of experience with them but the few I have eaten were cravingly delicious.
Isn’t that a cow testicle??!!
@@BillyN31 Bison actually.
that newscaster aside from bein a real doll looks like a lot of fun.
Back in the late 60s-70s Next to the Dudley st Orange line train station there was a shop called Spukies had saw dust on the floor. Mostly onions and oil but cheap. miss it
Born and raised in Boston I've never heard anyone call these a spuckie......
Embrace your local history better.
I'm 90 years old and I've heard the word SPUCKIE used many times but only by ITALIANS referring to the type bread used in making
those sub sandwiches......The word is only used in ITALIAN neighborhoods like the NORTH END, EAST BOSTON, parts of REVERE,
MALDEN, MEDFORD, etc.......The word HOAGIE and GRINDER was used also but nowadays the word SUBMARINE is KING...
Who cares what it's called as we all know that the ITALIAN sandwich is Mucho delicious......Ooooooh Weeee.......!
Every sun has its own special name. I live across the street from here as a matter of fact all my kids worked here as there first job. And the subs are so large you could eat it 2 meals or serve 3 children lol
I remember Charlie's in Chelsea between the Chelsea Produce market and the Tobin bridge. Sad it's gone now.
Submarine sandwich!
Life-long ma resident..never heard of this.
It's a sub I'm from north of Boston and it's always been a sub.
I like this reporter Shayna, you can tell that she's down to earth. Kind of surprising considering that she looks like a model!!
I do remember calling them spuckies in my teens and 20s (61 years old now) but have not heard that word in a long time. Grew up in Quincy/Braintree so maybe it was a very local slang?
That's not Boston.
@@BH-zx4dm He never said Quincy/Braintree was Boston. They're close enough.
So we going to ignore the fact they interviewed the guy from Kitchen Nightmares😂😂😂
I grew up on the North Shore. We ate Subs, and when I was stationed in western MA. we ate Grinders, and we drank tonic.
I'm from Southie and I was born in 1969 and I still call it a spuckie or a sub....
I'm 72 grew up in Stoneham my parents were from the North End we still call them Spuckies
What did they order at Monica’s Mercato? It looks absolutely divine. I want to order one next time I’m in the city!
Grinders in Rhode Island...Portuguese Cacoila sandwich is SO GOOD!!! Try that next time.
Nice info on Caravela, you should've had the Portuguese steak too. It's a massive plate, with rice, fries and and an egg on top.
Fries in a sandwich uh no thanks
I thought that was a Pittsburgh thing
It’s actually good. Try McDonald’s fries on one of their double cheeseburgers.
I grew up in Boston and have never heard of spuckies.
ANY WHO SAYS CHOW MEIN AND SANDWICH IN THE SAME SENTENCE SHOULD BE TOSSED THROUGH THE GLASS DOOR OF THE SHOP LOL
I was always told that "spuckie" was short for "spuccadella" which was the name of the bread they made it on.
Just guessing on this one but maybe the pronunciation of _chourica_ is French-influenced? Because Fall River has lots of French-Canadians too, and there are spicy sausages called _chaurice_ and _chaurisse_ in other French-influenced parts of the globe.
From what I understand Chouriça(spelled like this) Sandwiches are part of Portuguese parties. When it is the sandwich it called Chouriça, the meat is called Chouriço. Usually it just Chouriço and cooked onions on the sandwich.
I grew up in Salem and I never heard the term used. But...when I visited my cousins in Revere they would go to the Italian bakery around the corner to buy some "spuckie" rolls to make subs. I always assumed they were a type of roll/bread. I just googled the word "spuccadella" and got that it is an Italian-American roll. The term was popular in East Boston and is thought to come from the Italian word "spaccatella" which is a kind of panino roll with rounded ends.
a lot of different styles similar are generally named for the type of roll/bread. Like subs/hoagies etc., correct?
That sandwich at 4:00 is an old recipe copied from the Belgian "Mitraillette Sandwich". It's very popular among students at lunchtime. Any fritterie in Belgium would serve you that.
Love New Deal!!! Its an institution!
Steak and cheese is pretty good too!
But I always get the Italian sub.
The Godmother is my second favorite.
In Philly we'll call our Hoagies a Grinder if its finished under a Salamander Oven (Toasted)
Anthony, the Kitchen Nightmare! 😂
Wait, isn't that Anthony that was on an episode of kitchen nightmares of the restaurant Davide? His voice is identical
Born and raised here (over 50 yrs old), and though I do know of a sign that says spuckies on it in Dorchester, I have never heard this word spoken from the mouth of a human being, ever, even once.
When your name is Dominic, but everyone says Dominique
We always called it a spuckie and I grew up in Dorchester on the south Boston line!
I never understood the mixing of fries on a sandwich, because it seems kind of… unnecessary unhealthy combination. My wife is Portuguese and even she doesn’t care for chorizo. Super salty.
If the word "healthy" enters your mind, then you're not in the same zone as these shops. This stuff is all pleasure. That's what the shop owners are selling.
At 2:40 he did NOT say spuckie, but he did say something else...
"Svuckie."
In jersey some consider a grinder a tuna and cheese sandwich that is toasted in the oven.
if you craving a sandwich that is totally unhealthy for you get a double play, or go even crazier and get. triple play... You won't regret it
Anthony has not aged well since his appearance on Kitchen Nightmares
There was still no explanation to where the term "spuckie" came from.
The first guy said it was the type of bread they use.
WTF?
That sounds like BS.
I want a better explanation.
Spuckie is short for spuccadella bread, which is an Italian long pointed bread roll
@@sandrab2589 Thank you 🙂
calling it a spuckie is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard
Chow Mein sandwich has been served at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island for the last 60 years that I know of abd probably years before that.
Just visited Boston first time 2 weeks ago Love her accent from west Massachusetts.. great town..love the SUBS
We call it steamed clams 'round here.
You call them steamed hams, even though you can clearly see the grill marks?
Western Mass Boy Angelina's Subs....Lived in NY for a few years and in Utica they are called Tunnels
Born and raised in Boston never heard of a Spuckie EVER
413 here, I felt that... 😞
Time for a trip to Boston!!
From South Eastern Mass, RI border, and our sammich shops call em grinders also.
My goodness, these sandwiches are gorgeous. This is one thing that the East Coast excels at over anything that the West Coast can offer. Hands down and shoulders above any feeble semblance of a sandwich on the West Coast. It's why the chains stores with their plastic bread and odd meats do so well in California.
Are there no Italians over there?
When I visited California I felt like everyone was giving me the absolute least they could charging me the absolute most they can.
@@PatrickPierceBateman There are a lot of Italians on the West Coast, but the farther food travels from its original source of generations from the tri-state area and New England, the more it becomes horribly modified to West Coast tastes, which in my opinion since living there is very weak. Pizza is so bad on the West Coast, that a New Yorker from the city, made it big in tech and started his own pizza point because he missed his slice. I won a restaurant voucher to one of those places that make fast-fired pizzas Subway style and it had 4 to 5-star ratings on Yelp. Yeah, the place looked really cool inside, but the pizzas were weak in flavor and the sauce tasted like tomato soup. Horrible, but hundreds of 4 and 5-star ratings from Californians. And then they stand in long lines for hours for boba tea. Dumb idiots. Oh yeah, and their schools don't teach anything, especially grammar and geography. I worked with people who had CA college degrees and they can't get the basics right like, "their, they're, there, your, you're, etc."
That's right! When I was stationed in Long Beach and later San Diego, I never saw the like of the gargantuan and humungous sandwiches that were readily available back home in New York or elsewhere on the east coast!
Sandwich artists have got it so easy
In CT we call them grinder. Western mass and RI as well, I thought all of New England did as well. Great video!
No matter their local name, a well constructed sandwich is a very beautiful thing ❤️👍🥖😘
Wicked spuckie
That bread makes me want to cry.
That dude was on Gordan Ramseys show kitchen nightmares
I'll make a detour next year when I am over there from Australia !!
Anthony was on kitchen nightmares!!! his family and his family's restaurant
was!!
The Cape and Islands, along with the southeast, call them subs. Never heard the word spuckie before.
They don’t cut the bread in two long ways. Jesus how hard is it? All the meat on one side, all toppings fall out on the other. Every damn bite. What a shame.
It all looks great!
Looks outstanding. I live close I'll be headed over this week
guy sounds like peter griffin
The one guy looks like the guy from Hell's Kitchen
A Po Boy and a Hero are two completely different things. I know people everywhere try and claim New Orleans culture, but they are not the same.
A " SUB" short for "Sub Marine" sandwich! Spuckie sounds like a wet dream!
exactly. bunch of fruit loops
WTF? I'm 63 y.o. and grew up in Lynn and later the South Shore. I left Mass. after high school and never moved back. But honestly, I've never heard the word "spuckie" in my life. When I was a kid we called them subs (untoasted) or grinders (toasted). Spuckie? Wicked dumb.