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!).

[#1 posted by Skep , October 18, 2007 12:52 PM]

...seems like someone should make a "Stopcock Liquors" and we could have a sort of matched pair...

[#2 posted by SednaBoo , October 18, 2007 12:55 PM]

This is in Salem, Ma. Also, a bunghole is the hole in a cask that the wine comes out.

[#3 posted by rednikki , October 18, 2007 12:56 PM]

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/

[#4 posted by gene , October 18, 2007 2:45 PM]

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?

[#5 posted by gene , October 18, 2007 2:47 PM]

Oops, shoulda RTF earlier posts.

[#6 posted by greenleaf , October 18, 2007 2:56 PM]

The Tee shirts are great! I got it at/in Bunghole Liquors! Well worth the trip.

[#7 posted by Adam Stanhope , October 18, 2007 3:35 PM]

They sell "I got it in the Bunghole!" t-shirts. Groovy.

[#8 posted by Chris , October 18, 2007 3:36 PM]

What? No obligatory Beavis and Butthead comments? Boy am I at the wrong party.

[#9 posted by Will , October 18, 2007 3:56 PM]

I used to pass Bunghole every day on my way to work at the Museum of Myths and Monsters in Salem. I love Massachusetts.

[#10 posted by Dave X , October 18, 2007 7:02 PM]

In Western Kentucky, near Mayfield, there's always "Bottom Liquors" for a laugh...

[#11 posted by Tits McGee , October 18, 2007 7:11 PM]

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.

[#12 posted by Zan , October 18, 2007 7:25 PM]

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.

[#13 posted by Chris Applegate , October 19, 2007 4:26 AM]

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

[#14 posted by Matt Brian , October 19, 2007 5:29 AM]

It bears an uncanny resemblance to the liquor store in Clerks IMO.

[#15 posted by Evaloushun , October 19, 2007 6:53 AM]

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.

[#16 posted by waugsqueke , October 19, 2007 8:56 AM]

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.