Tourists imitating the Boston accent at Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market at 4 South Market Street are major tourist gathering points where visitors commonly imitate the Boston accent and make stereotyped local jokes. Street performers, vendors, and locals have long noted tourists' mimicry and posed-‘authentic’ behavior as a recurring, lighthearted element of the area. The tourist-driven caricature of the Boston accent at this site has been remarked on in travel writing and local commentary.