Never heard of bulkies until this very day. And my parents even lived in Boston for 2 years ! (long before I was born.)

No, I think Boston is the only place they are called bulkies. I learned kaiser in Philly.

Is Chicago the only place that calls them kaisers?

Well you do have a much bigger German/Austro/Hugarian population than Boston.

Huh. Sandra Oh is so pretty, but that picture is freaking me out.

I've never heard "bulkie" before.

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I know my stepmother used to call them bulkies, in Maine, but I remember even then thinking that was not the only word for them. Perhaps the geographical dividing line is in Connecticut.

I had an experience much like yours today, Nutty, the first time I tried to order a sandwich in Philly. I said 'on a bulkie roll,' they looked at me like I was on crack, and I couldn't figure out how to re-phrase it. That was really the only name I knew. I was like "you know, a regular roll." "OH! A KAISER!" "Um, sure. whatever."

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"Bulkie"? News to this person from Western Pennsylvania, where, unsurprisingly, "kaiser" is the word of choice.

I was stunned when I learned that German is the largest ancestry group in the US -- I was the only kid I knew growing up with a German last name.