From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Talking Proud!
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:14:16 GMT

In article <1gkj3gINNc2@aludra.usc.edu> sknezevi@aludra.usc.edu (Steven John  
Knezevich) writes:
: 
: Sorry kids, but Buffalo is the place for culture......we have all the cool
: stuff.  Food, people, and THE GODDAMN BUFFALO BILLS...they better make it to 
: the playoffs and the superbowl.   Be true to the game.  You guys know you
: love Buffalo.  C'mon man, wings and Frank Lloyd Wright...how cool is that?
: 
: Steve Knezevich
: A proud Buffalo resident going to school in Lost Angels.  Not kidding.
: 

Here here ... I'm a Buffalo native (the _city_, not Amherst or Williamsville  
like _everyone_ says they're from).  Even though I'm in New Mexico, there's  
still little reminders of the Buffalo region ... restaurants that claim to have  
"Buffalo Style Chicken Wings" (yeah, right!), the occasional New York or  
Ontario license plate and a Buffalo-themed restaurant in El Paso called Buffalo  
Wingfields.  

What I miss about Buffalo, in no particular order ... 

* Elmwood Avenue.  
* Genesee Cream Ale.  Better than any laxative I've ever taken ...
* Real thick, meaty Chicken Wings.  Only chicken wings from Buffalo may be  
capitalized.
* Real weather, not this sissy "oh-it's so-cold-it's-only-60" stuff they call  
weather in New Mexico.
* 97 Rock, even if most of the music is from dead white guys.
* Metro Bus/Rail.  
* CFNY, even if it is from Toronto.
* Downtown, especially since they practically rebuilt the place.
* AM&A's.
* Irv Weinstein.  "Buffalo blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in  
Black Rock..."
* Cheektowaga.  Everyone needs a suburb to make fun of, or at least a ripe  
picking ground for stealing lawn ornaments.
* 1 bar / 900 residents, most open to 4 AM.
* 1 restaurant / 1000 residents, most serving good food.
* Hundreds of Greek restaurants with two tables and three stools, most open 24  
hours a day.
* Real unfranchised pizza.  Domino's don't deliver in Buffalo.
* Safe neighborhoods, ungentrified parts of the Lower East Side excepted.
* Cool people.
* Hutch Tech, among other high schools whose graduates actually know how to  
read and write.
* Frontier Liquors.  They have everything and they'll deliver it out to the  
boonies.
* Being able to walk practically everywhere, without having to depend on a car  
for your lifeline.
* The Buffalo Fuggin' Bills, the Buffalo Fuggin' Sabres and the Buffalo Fuggin'  
Bisons.
* Buffalo Lager.
* Walden Galleria.  A showplace example of Canadian^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^DAmerican  
consumerism.
* Buffalo State College.  Maybe UB too, but not as much.  Go Bengals!
* Canada.  It's expensive, not as friendly as it used to be, and Crystal Beach  
is gone, God rest its soul, but it's nice having a foreign country at your  
doorstep.
* Allentown.  Not the city in Pennsylvania, but the neighborhood.
* Delaware Avenue.  Belongs in a city ten times Buffalo's size.
* Jimmy D. Fuggin' Griffin.  Mayor for Life (TM), even though nobody claims to  
vite for him.   
* South Buffalo.  After all, someone has to vote for Griffin!
* The Buffalo News, a _real_ newspaper, not one of these colorful no-word-over-
five-letters-long-everything-in-18-point-type Gannett rags.

Please don't ask why I'm in New Mexico if I miss Buffalo so much ... it's pure  
economics, plain and simple.  

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   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
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