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Oh yeah, I reminded today myself that Buffalo Bros has a good Friday fish fry too

Imported, so to speak. When the Bills came down to play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving in 2019, Buffalo Bros set up three of those grills made out of 66 gallon drums and cooked Sahlens all through the tailgate and gave them away for free.

He's a good soldier for the Amerks.

But really, except for Hawaii, L.A., and maybe Florida, this is probably true for a lot of the country. Our spring and fall can be very pleasant here, interrupted by a hellish summer with crappy weather in the winter. I say "maybe Florida" because if you don't like humidity Florida will be miserable most of the time.

That's Air Conditioning season here in Texas. (currently at 101)

Huzzah!

Yeah I see them a lot around here too, but no I don't have one. I used to make my own pizza, but I just used the regular oven.

Buffalo Bros works, I think, because it has a full bar menu but has "Buffalo Favorites" for those from, or partial to, Buffalo, and Ed is a trained chef who knows how to recreate the Buffalo recipes here. It seems like there is an increasing appetite for "Buffalo chic", the blue-collar aesthetic. But it's also a sports bar so if you could care less about Buffalo you could still enjoy the place. The location near TCU caters to the college crowd, for instance they have meet & greets with TCU athletes that pack the place. But on Bills game days it feels like you're in a bar in Buffalo. Buffalo Bros is not the only Buffalo bar here; there is also Nickel City which has a pretty stripped down food menu but the wings are quite good. That is also part of a small "chain"; apparently there is another NIckel City in Austin; the owner is from the Southern Tier of WNY. The primary cook at the Ft Worth Nickel City is the owner's cousin who's also from WNY. The Buffalo angle is more about the ambiance; the place looks like some "old men's" bar on Bailey Avenue. The Buffalo diaspora reminds me of the New Orleans diaspora. People have left their home city but still have a love for what makes it unique, especially the food. There are a lot of Cajun restaurants around here. There was always a Lousiana population here; LSU puts out good engineers who have been hired locally here. But things really ramped up in the aftermath of Katrina. Not as many people came here as went to Houston, but a lot did; the Will Rogers Center (think Hamburg Fairgrounds) was an emergency shelter for several weeks and a lot of the folks never left. The Buffalo diaspora is not as big as New Orleans, but I can see similarities between the two.

I used to think that was a lot of money for a pizza (the regular price of $26) but it's slightly cheaper than La Nova in Buffalo.

Buffalo Bros in Fort Worth was opened by a local restaurateur at the suggestion of one of his chefs who is from Kenmore. The restaurateur has several restaurants under different names and themes, but he has two locations of Buffalo Bros. The chef, Ed, is now part owner and partner. They've talked about expanding to Dallas but haven't gotten there yet. Maybe someday Florida, who knows? I think part of the issue would be scalability; right now they do runs to Buffalo for Sahlen's, loganberry syrup, Bison Brand French Onion Dip, etc. You can do that for a couple restaurants but if you get too many you really need commercial supply (especially if the restaurants are not geographically close). For other things he sources them locally, like he gets the kimmelweck buns baked locally to his spec.

It says 1/2 off on Mondays on the box. That one was about $13 I think (on Monday).

I keep meaning to check them out and just haven't gotten around to it.

If you can get over to Fort Worth, check out Buffalo Bros. There is a location in downtown Fort Worth and one near TCU. The guy who runs them is from Kenmore. If you're in town Monday that would be a good day because Buffalo Bros. has half off all their pizzas including whole pies and slices (excludes only pizza-wing combos). If you do decide to go Monday for dinner let me know; maybe I can meet up with you. The Duff's in Southlake is... okay, but it's set in a strip mall and just doesn't have a Buffalo vibe. The wings are okay though. PIzza from Buffalo Bros.

Kevyn is playing 5D chess with people who don't know you can jump in checkers. He may outsmart himself.

KInd of like Cozens did this past year with Quinn/JJP

Wouldn't it be cool if Tage's line is still clicking along, Cozens' line is playing at a first line level, and Krebs grows a bit and our third line is *also* a first line? Yikes, the rest of the league won't know what to think.

Right and I also wonder if there's some cause-effect going on with high scoring teams who don't win (or get into the playoffs) focusing on defense the following year, almost like it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hopefully their goal differential will be bigger this year; that's what I'd focus on; I don't care how you get there.

It's not the AAV but the term that makes Muel's deal look good.

Actually shes' leaning the same way I am so I think we have a solution. We were inspired to pick the tile we did based on a display at IKEA. We looked at a tile store's website and found something similar and said, "That's it!" And we stopped looking. Today I plugged that tile into a picture of the kitchen. The tile website has a utiility to do that so you can see how things will look in your room. But then I started looking at others. I showed the others to my wife and she said either stick with what we had or go to "the first blue one". I told her why I preferred that one and she totally agreed, so I think this is the one.

Actually, yes. He would be been a great vet to lead the way with Girgs and Okie. I think he would have had over-the-top hometown vibes with Tuch.

Jean-Guy Lagace

What would you do? Pick the tile that's neutral, colorwize? Or go with the blue? (see previous post)

Currently this is the backsplash tile my wife and I have picked out (the cabinets are white; the lighting was weird) Before we pull the trigger I decided to look at the tile website and see what else they have. I like this one too: I think it makes the room look a little lighter/airier. My wife said either one is fine but we both have a concern about having to match if we switch kitchen colors. Currently our walls are painted thusly

They were ads that I saw exclusively during hockey games, so...