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Good answer

Welp.

Welp.

I'm not interested in how that looked at toll.

How can you tell???

Well the one in the front is flash fried....

I'm back from dinner. Let's go Buffalo!

Rousek to Rochester

Chef's is another thing that was around when I lived in Buffalo but we never went. There were too many good Italian restaurants in Cheektowaga. Roma's (mentioned upthread) was one- everything there was homemade (I know, because when I worked there, I made it). A lot of people liked Baraci's/Baracini's on Union Road. And there were others. My mom's family is from Lackawanna and I still have family there; we've been to Ilio DiPaolo's (or however it's spelled) and I remember that being pretty good too.

Whereabouts? I grew up near U-Crest Firehall, OLHC, Airport Plaza.

Our local Buffalo bar here in Fort Worth "imports" Sahlens from Buffalo. When the Bills came to play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving 2019, Buffalo Bros grilled hundreds of Sahlens at the tailgate party and gave them away to Bills fans. It was awesome.

Or Rousek sent down?

I would still prefer Cozens and Mitts swapped. Maybe Donny Meatballs feels this will lift Cozens up. I haven't heard about any roster moves.... has Levi been sent down to Rochester on paper?

He's been ill.

...so I've heard...

I don't remember ever having sponge candy growing up. I like it, we just never got it. Was it a "thing" prior to 1980? Honestly asking. Another thing I know existed but I never heard of it was Chiavetta's BBQ Chicken. I may very well have had some at some point, but it wasn't branded then I don't think as it is now. Need to add both of these to my list.

I don't really remember the Bills AFL championship, but I *do* remember going to the Rockpile. My dad had season tix and I went to a few games there. My most vivid memory of the place was having to pee in a urinal trough, shoulder-to-shoulder with a crowd.... well for me it was shoulder-to-elbow since I was only, like 8 years old. After Rich Stadium was built, I did go to a number of Bisons games in the Rockpile.

You're the second one to mention this. I watch the Bills games at a DFW Bills Backers Bar and it never occurred to me that Bills Mafia was a negative term, perhaps because it's largely embraced by the Bills Backers group I hang with. I even have DFW Bills Mafia t-shirt. You're right though.... the term Bills Mafia is more recent than my last residency in Buffalo.

Oof. You had one job. Yeah, in Dallas they yell out STARS in the Star Spangled Banner.

Ha. I fixed it before I read this 😄

I have one for Rosen but I'm not sure I like it. Haven't done a Kulich yet. Whichever one gets here first I guess I'll use this.

On a more personal level: Thirty-Three Speakeasy Grill on Genesee Street. When I was growing up it was Roma Italian Restaurant; my first job was washing dishes/short order cook there. Speakeasy has a video header on their website; where they show the kitchen it looks pretty much the same as when I worked there; I think I've used those same ovens to cook pizza.

This thread is primarily for the Buffalo diaspora, or possibly some of the younger people who missed out on things because they weren't aware yet. What are things associated with Buffalo that you missed out on? I'm thinking of Buffalo things/traditions that I grew up in Cheektowaga, and left for college in 1980. I came home the first two summers but haven't lived there since. So there are a lot of things I missed out on. The general revitalization of Buffalo Metro Rail Canalside (I've spent an afternoon or two there, but as a tourist) KeyBank Center (never been to a game there!) Buffalo Bandits Original Pizza Logs Paula's Donu Sponge candy Chiavetta's BBQ Chicken I'm sure there are others (and I reserve the right to add to the list), but what about the rest of you? What are Buffalo things that weren't yet things when you left Buffalo, things you missed out on?

I think I'm good for the current roster, maybe the next callup.

I root for different teams for different sports because the Sabres, for instance, don't play football. Basically I root for the home teams: My hometown teams: Bills, Sabres Teams from my current home: Texas Rangers, Mavericks (although I'm a bandwagon Mavs fan; only watch them when they're good because I'm not a big basketball fan), TCU for college since I live 3 miles from campus but I'm not a huge college fan Teams from my current home, friends with benefits* edition: Cowboys, Stars Teams from cities where I've lived... mildly in their corner but not all that much: Dodgers, Tigers, Red Wings Lacrosse is kind of an odd situation... I don't really follow it but every year I say I'm going to start. At this point I would probably follow Panther City Football Club (Fort Worth) since it's the only "major" league pro team Fort Worth has. But I rooted for the Bandits last year. The thing about the Bandits is they weren't there when I lived in Buffalo. I went away to college in 1980 and never lived there full time since (just a couple summers during college). *Friends with benefits team = I'll spend an evening with them, but there's no emotional attachment and definitely root for Buffalo over them