Every few months, the coffee world coughs up a rumor so absurd, so wildly impractical, so beautifully unhinged that it demands investigation. And recently, one particular myth has bubbled back up: Dunkin’ Donuts is selling coffee… in buckets. Yes. Buckets. As in: the thing you mop floors with. The thing you fill with ice at a party. The thing you absolutely should not be drinking 128 ounces of caffeine from unless you have a cardiologist on speed dial.

So is it real? Is Dunkin’ actually out here ladling hot coffee into five‑gallon tubs like some kind of New England witch’s brew? Yes and no. Dunkin’ isn’t handing out gallon‑sized mop buckets of coffee — but they are quietly testing a 48‑ounce iced coffee bucket at select locations. It’s not a gallon, but it’s still a whole lot of caffeine. Enough that you could absolutely dunk a donut in it with room to spare.

The catch: this bucket is only available at a handful of test stores, mostly in New England. No nationwide rollout, no official “Bucket Era” (yet), just a limited experiment to see how far America’s caffeine devotion will go. So the meme wasn’t entirely wrong—it was just early. The Dunkin’ Bucket exists, but only in a controlled, regional, “please don’t panic” sort of way. And honestly? If this thing ever goes national, I’ll be first in line to document the chaos.