Boston
About Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. Boston has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area had a population of 4.9 million in 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the eleventh-largest in the United States.
On the show — 192 mentions total
In 1630 the foundations of the first ever American police force came about — it was a night watch. In 1903 the Boston police force got the first ever police car of anywhere in America, but no one knew how to drive it.
from 295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 at 00:06:39 · read transcript
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There was one other thing that I mentioned earlier. The Solder Fountain magazine reckoned that the banana split was invented in Boston. There was an ice cream convention in 1905, and there was a guy called Stinson Thomas who supposedly invented it, but Boston has since ceded its title to this place in Pennsylvania. Very noble of Boston. There was even a claim I read that it was invented by someone called Letty Lally in 1904.
457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen
They didn't they didn't cook it at all or? It's actually a misconception you can get food poisoning from Royal Pamphlet. Thank goodness Russia is now a paragon of liberty. Also in Boston we were talking about Boston stuff in 1679 there was a Frenchman who was suspected of setting a fire in Boston and he was ordered to go to the pillory and have both his ears cut off.
295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 · listen
It's actually a misconception you can get food poisoning from Royal Pamphlet. Thank goodness Russia is now a paragon of liberty. Also in Boston we were talking about Boston stuff in 1679 there was a Frenchman who was suspected of setting a fire in Boston and he was ordered to go to the pillory and have both his ears cut off for suspected arson. That's amazing. You have quite a there's quite a lot of history isn't there in Boston especially compared to the rest of America because Dan and I were walking through Cambridge yesterday and Dan pointed to a quite new looking building and he said you know what I can't believe that building was built in 1588 and I said no Dan that that is a street number of that house.
295: No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette, 2019-11-15 · listen
Okay. There was one of the thing that I mentioned earlier, the Soda Fountain Magazine, I reckon that the banana split was invented in Boston. There was an ice cream convention in 1905, and there was a guy called Stinson Thomas who supposedly invented it, but Boston has since seeded its title to this place in Pennsylvania. Very noble of Boston. There was even a claim I read that it was invented by someone called Letty Lally in 1904.
No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen
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