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"John E. Buchanan" <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:02:36 -0400
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Any chance of a branch in Prince George, VA!?!?!!?  I am a transplanted
Buffalonian and could really use one

Buck Buchanan!
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Corsaro" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: Beef on weck


> All:
>
> Having grown up on the Niagara frontier, I ate plenty of beef on weck.
> Several restaurants in Niagara Falls (not just Buffalo) served this tasty
> sandwich. One restaurant that served it, if I remember correctly, was
called
> Zwickelbauer's Hofbrau and it was on Niagara Falls Boulevard (Rt. 66).
>
> You might like to know that the sandwich has come east as well. A
restaurant
> in Albany, The Chambers, used to serve it (they flew in the "wecks"
> everyday). Now a drive-in restaurant in Saratoga Springs, PJ's, serves
"beef
> on weck" during the summer (PJ's moves to Sarasota in the winter and I
assume
> they serve "wecks" there also). PJ's also carries on another western NY
> tradition by serving loganberry soda (excuse me, that should be "pop")
with
> the beef on weck. You can buy the '"weck" at DiCamillo's bakery in the
> "Falls," if you are ever there.
>
> Jim Corsaro
>

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