From K-QED.

You know those days when your burrito isn't very good?

You know those days when your burrito isn't very good?

It isn't really good or super good or even amazingly good. There are some days when a burrito can only be described as hella good. I'm Olivia Allen Price and this is Bay Curious.

If you've lived in Northern California for any amount of time you have come to

know the word Hella.

I am Hella hungry right now. I'm Hella fool right now. That concert last night was Hella

cool. Hella jealous. Hella cool. Oh yeah, Hella Kool. Hella Jealous?

Oh yeah, Hella.

Today's question comes from listener Ventura Albor.

How is it that Hella became synonymous with the bay?

Such a good question.

So good, in fact, we're sharing the answer again.

The story first ran back when Bay Curious was a wee baby back in 2015.

We'll get to it right after this break.

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I think it's going to take a true local to unwind this one.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adiza Egan.

As a child of the Bay Area, I grew up saying Hella, and I feel it in my bones that it's a Bay Area

word. People here will tell you they think it is too. Like

So Cal transplant, Brie Durabio, who I met at a coffee shop in San Jose. She

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