Excellent liquor store name of the day
Posted to the mobile blog of "Lost Cheerio," spotted in or around Boston, MA. Link (thanks, Susannah Breslin!).
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...seems like someone should make a "Stopcock Liquors" and we could have a sort of matched pair...
This is in Salem, Ma. Also, a bunghole is the hole in a cask that the wine comes out.
That's actually a chain, located in Salem and Peabody, MA. (The photo is of the one in Peabody.) They also have a website where you can buy stuff with their logo:
http://www.bungholeliquors.com/
The name sorta makes sense as, IIRC, a bunghole is the hole on the side of a barrel that you would stick the tap into after knocking the plug out. So, gross, but etymologically speaking, in context.
Why do I feel like Tobias Funke now?
Oops, shoulda RTF earlier posts.
The Tee shirts are great! I got it at/in Bunghole Liquors! Well worth the trip.
They sell "I got it in the Bunghole!" t-shirts. Groovy.
What? No obligatory Beavis and Butthead comments? Boy am I at the wrong party.
I used to pass Bunghole every day on my way to work at the Museum of Myths and Monsters in Salem. I love Massachusetts.
In Western Kentucky, near Mayfield, there's always "Bottom Liquors" for a laugh...
I have driven by, but have never had the pleasure of entering Bunghole Liquors.
However, I spent a couple of summers assisting a college professor of mine, writing problem sets and their solutions for his calculus textbook. Long days spent in a windowless computer lab with a handful of other math geeks produced a fair amount of slap-happiness, so imagine the reaction when our professor presented us with a version of this problem to work on.
Our prof was absolutely mystified as to what could possibly be so funny about bungholes and bung rods and requested an explanation, which, of course, only led to more giggling.
I saw this as well last year when I headed to Salem for Halloween. It turns out that a bung hole is the hole that was drilled into casks of wine, beer, or rum in order to dispense said alcoholic beverage, so the name is quite appropriate.
In London there is a bar in Holborn called "Davy's Bung Hole", which never fails to elicit a childish snigger from myself - http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-644.php
It bears an uncanny resemblance to the liquor store in Clerks IMO.
There's a liquor store on the Cape called The Three Way....
I've passed Bunghole Liquors many times, and smirked. Cambridge, MA, has The Wine Cask, the owners knowing better than to name the store after the opening in the cask.
I love Salem, and this is the time of year to go.
The Salem Bunghole shop is just down the street from Salem Beer Works. If you ever stop in, I recommend the Blueberry beer. Very tasty, and the blueberries they toss in the beer rise and sink repeatedly.