Steve, a belated "Thank You" for the info!
Richard

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 18:32:45 -0500, Steve Ackman
> wrote:

>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.