When in Buffalo . . .
Jan and I left the rig a little before 2pm to meet up with long-time friend Tricia at the newly-reopened Yummy Yummy Chinese Buffet.
We’ve known Tricia since someone recommended me to do some computer repair for her business, That was back in the early 2000’s and we’ve been friends ever since.
Besides the good food it’s been long enough since we’ve seen each other that we didn’t say our good-byes until almost 5pm. Hopefully it won’t be as long until we get together again.
Here’s another repost of our time in New York, and our visit to the original home of Buffalo Wings.
September 25, 2009
Wings and more Wings…
As I said, today was pretty much just an errand day.
We’re at the Sleepy Hollow Lake Campground in Corfu, NY, a little east of Buffalo.
It’s the only park we’ve ever stayed at that has a petting zoo! They have alpacas, goats, sheep, pigs, and emus. Not bad.
And for some strange reason, it also has its own firetruck!
Not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Jan said maybe the park owner is a retired fireman. I said yeah, but you don’t normally get to take your firetruck with you. Our son Chris didn’t.
After sitting outside with Mister a while, we headed out looking a good place to have lunch.
While looking for, what turned out to be an out-of-business Mexican place, we stumbled on Quaker Steak and Lube, a restaurant with, not surprisingly, an automobile theme.
And really good food.
Besides a full menu, they also specialized in Buffalo Wings. I noticed that besides the normal ones, they had ‘Atomic Wings, so Jan and I decided to try a sampler plate of 5 wings.
According to the SHU (Scoville Heat Units) chart on their menu, regular Buffalo wings rate a 3000 of the chart. Really, really hot wings rate a 30,000.
Their Atomic Wings come in at150,000 SHU!
Jan ate 2 wings and I ate 3. They were hot, very hot. But I’m not sure they’re any hotter than the hottest ones that Hooters has.
But for the rest of the day, our lips did tingle and feel like they had been sunburned.
After lunch, with our tongues still tingling and our eyes still watering, we drove over to Sam’s Club for some ‘stuff’.
Heading back toward home we stopped off at a Walgreens that had flu shots available. Jan wanted to get one. This is just for the normal flu. The Swine (H1N1) Flu shots won’t be available until sometime next month.
As usual, I didn’t get one. As I tell Jan, “I depend on the kindness of strangers”. I figure if everyone else gets a shot, then I won’t need one.
I haven’t gotten a flu shot for years and I haven’t had the flu for years. So there.
We also stopped off at a NAPA Auto Parts so I could buy a new battery for the truck. We’ve had a couple of instances recently where our truck wouldn’t start, so I wanted to take care of the problem.
I installed the new battery in the NAPA parking lot so I wouldn’t have to bring the old one back later.
Later that evening, we decided to have more chicken wings. This time from the place that created the first Buffalo Wings in 1964 and started the whole thing.
It’s called ‘The Original Anchor Bar” and is located in Buffalo, of all places. The place is really a family Italian restaurant and has been around since 1935.
The wings came about when some friends of the owner’s son showed up right before closing one night, and the son asked his mother to fix something for them. She took a bunch of chicken wings that she was planning to use for soup, deep fried them, and then dunked them in a sauce she had been working on for another recipe.
And a legend was born!
This being an Italian restaurant, besides an order of Spicy BBQ Wings, we got a cheese and pepperoni pizza, and an order of Pizza Logs, kind of like Italian Egg Rolls. All very good. And we had leftovers.
Then it was back to the park a little early.
Tomorrow’s a travel day.
Thought For The Day:
Sometimes I wish I were a better person, but then I just laugh and laugh, and then go about my day.
