The B's of Dagupan City

Dagupan City can be described in a number of ways through the letter B. As the city is famous for the following B's: Bangus, Bocayo and Bagoong, What's Up Dagupan wanted to know if there are other B's that the city is known for. We posted the question in the What's Up Dagupan facebook page http://facebook.com/whatsupdagupan and What's Up Dagupan twitter http://twitter.com/whatsupdagupan and elicited varied responses- funny, timely, political, irreverent, thought-provoking, and informative. Thanks to all who commented and tweeted. If you want to add to the "B's of Dagupan" or comment which is the best "B", post here or at the comment box below.

WUD's admin particularly likes Gemoño Dagupeño's Benjie at Belen...BUDGET 2011 comment (for being political and very timely), Apolthegreat and Sixto De Vera Guzilan's Baha comment (for being the sad truth) and Micamyx's Bigar-Bigar comment (for being pilit and corny and for the effort- peace Mica he he).

See the Facebook and twitter responses:



Facebook:
What's Up Dagupan?

Ano ang mga B's ng Dagupan? Bangus, Bocayo, Bagoong... Ano pa?
21 hours ago ·  · 


Twitter:

 Micaela 

@ Bigar-Bigar wehehe joke lang :))
21 hours ago Favorite Reply



 apolthegreat 

@ baha? Magandang umaga! :-)
21 hours ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

Comments

  1. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2011 at 7:13 AM

    what about BANGAR? BANGAR ya manag tricycle BANGAR ya driver na jeep where the tricycle drivers occupy most of parking space sa downtown area,where they even use the pedestrian crossing to swerve from right lane to left lane. saan ka pa???? only in the Philippines at baka only in dagupan city yan

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2011 at 12:53 AM

    beautiful babes

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