Wickedpedia

Your unserious questions, seriously answered.

Have a question about Greater Boston or New England you’ve always wondered about but never thought to ask? Boston.com’s Wickedpedia series aims to track down the answers to these long-burning (often random) reader questions — the more obscure the better.

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The Citgo sign is illuminated as the sun goes down in Boston.

Where does the Boston accent come from?

Could you ever actually 'pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd'?

Where does Greater Boston end?

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Where do the Swan Boats go in the winter?

MBTA-related questions:

How did the T lines get their colors?

A postwar all-electric streetcar destined for Watertown in 1946.

Why doesn't the Green Line have an 'A' branch?

Where do old MBTA trains go to die?

Who thought Green Line trolleys driving in traffic was a good idea?

The entrance to the Wonderland T station in Revere.

'But ‘Wonderland’ itself, well what was that?'

What are the ‘hanging poles’ in the Kendall MBTA station?

Food-related questions:

Two cups of ice cream are pictured side by side on a counter, one with chocolate jimmies and one with rainbow sprinkles.

Why do some New Englanders call sprinkles ‘jimmies’?

'If they know what a spuckie is, if they’re from Boston, they’re really tickled that we have that on the menu'

A collage of three frappes.

'A frappe is a frappe. A milkshake is not a frappe.'

What exactly is coffee milk?

'It’s never been a pie, never will be a pie. It’s always a cake.'

A picture of an original tomato pizza from Sally's Apizza.

What is apizza? And how is it different from regular pizza?

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