"Wavy G" > wrote in message
...
> Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do
what they say
> can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to
get there.
> I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "dejablues" run.
>
> >
> >"The Magnificent *******" > wrote
in message
> ...
> >> In Buffalo, NY (where Buffalo Wings were invented) they
don't call them
> >> Buffalo Wings. They call them Chicken Wings. Not Buffalo
Wings, not
> >> Wings, but *Chicken* Wings. To order them any other way
brings scorn and
> >> derision upon you and labels you as a a tourist.
> >>
> >> I found this out this past week while I was in Buffalo.
Luckily,
> >> someone tipped me off about the wings lingo before I made a
fool of
> >> myself and tried to order Buffalo Wings.
> >>
> >> So anyway, I thought I would let everyone know this so in
case you are
> >> going to Buffalo, you'll know how to order wings in a
restaurant or bar.
> >
> >Er, yeah, like we'd laugh at you here in Philly if you asked
for a "Philly
> >Cheesesteak". Wait a minute, we wouldn't laugh, we'd sell you
the
> >cheesesteak and helpfully point out the best attractions and
the easiest way
> >to get to them.
> >
> >Shouldn't Buffalo be glad that it's getting any tourists at
all?
>
> As a child, on a family vacation in won of the less-fortuneate
southern
> states, we stopped in to eat at won of the local "dive"
restaurants.
> Upon viewing the large picture-menus on the wall (apparently
for
> designed for the illiterate southerners), my sister tried to
order a
> "coney" (a coney is a chilidog in Cincinnati), and the girl
behind the
> counter asked with a look of confusion on her face, "What's a
coney?"
> At first I laughed to myself and thought, "what an idiot!" I
then had a
> brief philosophical realisation that life, and culture, and
logocentrism
> exist outside the realm of my own self-absorbed world, which I
have
> created for myself. I ordered a cheeseburger.
>

i still say it's ****ing insane to put chili on top of
piskettis.