On 1 Nov 2003 07:47:04 -0800, Richard Butler > wrote:
> Has anyone heard this term for a mixture of half milk, half coffee? My
> grandmother, who was born in Mississippi and lived her married life in
> Arkansas, served me this when I was a child. I have never met anyone
> who knew this term, even people from Boston.

In most of New England, if you just ask for "a coffee"
or "a regular" you get coffee with milk and sugar in it.
I'd bet the term "boston coffee" came out of that practice.