ExiledInIllinois

And that flame-grilled taste! The gift that keeps on giving! 😆... But you're right, "other worldly!!!"

Yeah... I stand corrected, 2.8 million in the Upstate New York Region of WNY... But heck... 1.9 million is a heck of a lot of Poles. I have even noticed in recent years, they are coming through on recreational boats, speak nothing but Polish. Hard-headed too! 😆 Anybody know how to say: "life preserver, no wake" in Polish! Help: @BringBackFergy @Beerball Special Shout-out to: @Gugny (I hear you just graduated from the Polish-American Museum in Amsterdam, New York! 😉)

Actually, the largest concentration outside Poland I believe is Chicago: "Institutions. Chicago bills itself as the largest Polish city outside of Poland with approximately 1,900,000 people of Polish ethnicity in the Chicago metropolitan area." I don't even think there's two million total in WNY.

Also... The day everyone is Polish in South Bend, Indiana. They celebrate it really big there. Like BFLo, if not even more hyped by the town!

Get it in your dominant arm. You know, the one you wipe your azz with. 😆🤣

40 in last 100 years. That's one every 2.5 years for all you little mathletes out there! Mets? 5 in last 60. That's one every 12 years. 2009 was 12 years ago. That's about right for the Yankees with Mets standards... 😆

Good luck... Your welcome. Again, pure bar food. In the old days, when they were invented, the sandwiches were gratis... Salted rolls so the workers would drink more BEER. FWIW... My BiL is from the Boston area... A lover of all things Bawston and his grandmother's baked beans... IE: Obnoxious to the core. Anyway... He loved the lowbrow, "salt of the earth" beef on weck when he was first introduced to it back when my mother was living (pre 1999). And yes, it was made with gravy. It's bar food, fare for the salt of the earth... So I guess there is a redeeming quality about my BiL... Yankee frugality and sensibly overrides coastal snobism... Even if he thinks BFLo is an outpost on the Niagara Frontier and a million miles away in Indian Country. Try not to make it out to be more than anything more. Get a big piece of suet and slap it on top of the top round while it cooks. Cook it rare, easy to slice and it will finish in the gravy. Kimmelweck is just a salted Kaiser roll with caraway. It's really not that hard. Gasp: finish it off in a CrockPot... 😆 😃😊

There's a joke in here somewhere about a leeky peck! 😆

Oh... Funny story about the Mets and 1969. My brother was 5 and in Kindergarten... My mother got him a Mets tee-shirt. Same mother who grew up thinking only the Yankees & Dodgers were allowed in World Series (honest Native, really! 😆)... And daughter of total Yankee lover AND Mets lover, my grandmother... ...Anyway my brother, who's 4 years older than me says he goes to school with said Mets tee-shirt and is promptly picked on, called every name in the school bus dictionary by the older kids. 1969 wasn't all that idyllic. Did you ever see Shea Stadium during those years?😉😉 Anyway, he went on to be a Yankee lover... During the Yankees-KC years I rooted for Royals... YET, he tolerated the Mets and would root for them. But NOT over St.Louis Cardinals! 😅🤣 I hope this clarifies things! 😆🤣

I really don't have any dog in hunt. BFLo doesn't have MLB... So... My heart is purely out of it. No Hometown connection. Sure Home State. But who from Upstate doesn't secretly loathe NYC? I can tolerate The City, it's like Chicago here. Love & hate the place and it's teams. I will root for Sox here, that's about it... Over the Mets, but not Yankees. Strange... I grew up hating Yankees. I'd take Mets over Cubs. The 1969 collapse is epic! I rooted for Cubs over Marlins and San Diego... But Indians over Cubs. My MLB allegiance is schizo without a heart! 😆 I guess like me! 😆

Look, I rooted for Mets in 1986 because they played the BoSox. I don't mind seeing the Mets collapse. I can't explain it. I think it's funny... Like watching the Cubs suck. Or Boston suck. But, on that scale... Watching Boston win is the worst. Why pick on me? You didn't see the OP's initial post? I guess, I am just a troublemaker. You can't convert me. I have no remorse with this issue.

Yeah... And get their meat hooks in parking and tailgate. Leave it alone. The new biz model NFL will be the death knell for WNY football. We're cooler draggers...

Varying levels. There are fewer teams I root for over the Yankees. Maybe one or two teams. Mets ain't one of them. Little more with the Mets. Yankees are one of them.

Met Agnostic. Troublemaker too. Yankees are the only real team NYC. Mets are like the Jets. They hold no majority of fans in any county in the US, even their home City.

What about this guy. I love it so much I stored it on my clipboard: "Worst case: Despite the new owner and all the good tidings from the offseason, the Mets prove to still be the Mets. The rotation behind deGrom can't stay healthy. The bullpen implodes. The defense is one of the league's worst. The Mets stagger to 80 wins and a fourth-place finish. Discord ensues and Lindor decides there has to be a better situation for him somewhere else. -- Doolittle" 😆🤣 Back to the 🐻🐻‍❄️🧸Cam! 😆

I clearly call it FakeNews. It has vinegar in it. It's already safe at room temp.

Nothing! 😆 It was designed in Buffalo, 1950-1960... The lock & dam that is. 😃 Honest! Au jus is for Chicago Italian Beef. Dipped, Wet, or Dry:

What do you know... You're not from Buffalo. We might like ketchup! 😜 It's bar food. Why people make more out of it than it's worth is silly. The beef is done rarer first and then finishes off well in the gravy.

They rebuilt. That was the first one. You mess with beef, you play with fire 🔥... 😉😜 I never got why it needed to be refrigerated. Doesn't it contain vinegar?

If you want it done right... Skip the au jus... It's working man's food... Original invention of the recipe calls for gravy: How the coastal elites co-opted it with au jus is beyond me: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/history/torn-down-tuesday-bailos-famed-for-beef-on-weck-and-an-urban-legend/article_c401f97b-2d78-5ac5-91ee-b3d85bb4546c.html "...The draft beers were big. The shrimp cocktail was big. And famously, the beef on weck was huge. The well-done beef, usually topped with GRAVY and horseradish at Bailo's, poured off of the full-sized kimmelweck roll. Again, at a time when dozens — if not hundreds — of corner saloons were carving up beef on weck around the region, Bailo's was famous all over the city for people who'd make the trip for what was universally recognized as one of the city's best roast beef sandwiches."

Here's a whole soundtrack:

Does anybody remember the cheat to: "Kid Chameleon?" So... You can skip right to the Boss (Heady Metal) Level (Plethora)? Well... Here it for a refresher: https://kidchameleon.fandom.com/wiki/Plethora_cheat

No. They played a regular schedule. Few blips... But played alloted teams thru season. The NFCeast just sux.

A record losing streak. Or, let's look on positive side. A team out there could have had a record winning streak. I suspect both are more easily attainable with the Bush League antics... How this whole year and part of last year, if it doesn't get an asterisk is beyond me....