You know you're from Buffalo when...

[baldguy]

# You ever bragged about your driving time to Toronto.

# You ever crossed the border just to:

* buy beer at Brewers Retail, because you think it has more alcohol than what's sold in the US
* buy cheese
* buy fireworks
* eat at a Chinese restaurant
* attend the "Canadian Ballet"
* buy gasoline (in the early 1980s)
* buy clogs (in the late 1970s)

# You still call most businesses and institutions by names that they were known twenty or more years ago, for instance:

* Bon-Ton "AM&A's"
* Ralph Wilson Stadium "Rich Stadium"
* Dunn Tire Park "North Americare Park" or "Pilot Field"
* Kauffman's "Hengerer's"
* Quality Markets "Bells," or worse, "Loblaws"
* Buffalo State College "State Teacher's"
* Daemen College "Rosary Hill"
* Medaille College "St. Joe's Teacher's College"
* Adelphia Cable "Courier Cable" or "International Cable"
* Super Flea "GEX"

# Half of your friends moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and the rest went to Raleigh.

# You call an apartment a "flat".

# You have a favorite Greek "family" restaurant.

# Your mother still has an old metal "charge plate" in her purse.

# You see apartments listed in the Buffalo News classifieds by church parish and you know where all of them are.

# You use the word "the" before the numbers of expressways, like "the 290," "the 90," "the 400" and so on.

# Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.

# You save Canadian change to use at toll booths and parking meters.

# You've held a "waveathon" at four way stop intersections ("No, you go...")

# When someone speaks of a "family restaurant," you think of names like "The Olympus," "The Acropolis," and "The Agean," not Denny's.

# You can tell what part of town someone is from their accent. Especially dat der Chickatavaga town der, an' de freggin' Wesside.

# You ever feasted on these treats:

* real chicken wings (not "Buffalo wings")
* real beef on weck -- and you call it "beef on wick"
* real pizza, with no crust, cut lengthwise into strips
* real horseradish
* charcoal broiled hot dogs
* Niagara Street clams
* pierogies, golabkis, kapustas and kielbasa
* placek
* Weber's mustard
* Texas hots
* St Joseph's Day bread
* twice baked double cheese potatoes

# ... and washed it down with:

* Genesee Cream Ale, in a 16 ounce bottle ('da pounder)
* loganberry juice
* Vernor's
* Old Vienna
* Visniak or Black Rock pop

# You slam on the brakes and slow to a crawl whenever you see the "Village of Kenmore" sign.

# You compare ice scrapers with your buddies.

# You watch Canadian television, just so you can see United States network shows a day or two earlier than they would appear in the States.

# You make only $25,000 a year, but can still afford a nice single family house in the suburbs.

# You break out the shades and shorts when the temperature goes higher than 50 for the first time of the year.

# You can actually taste the difference between Molson, Labatts and Old Vienna.

# Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny Cream Ale and a bucket of wings.

# Your pockets are filled with old Metro Rail tickets.

# You flinch when you hear the words "wide right!"

# You think of a high school, not a cartoon, when you hear references to "South Park."

much much more:
http://www.bufftony.com/buffalo/frombuffalo.html

Someone had a lot of time.

[whirlygigspin]

1. Genesee Cream Ale

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[baldguy]

2. Oh, you poor poor soul

[tjdee]

3. "She's from Buffalo, how cool can she be?"

That was written on every dry erase board of all the rooms in all the dormitories of all the colleges in the Buffalo area--after Tiffani Amber Thiessen's character was introduced on Beverly Hills 90210.

The people who really were from Buffalo want to hurt us LOL!

There's a ballroom there I saw Sarah McLachlan in...very nice, don't remember the name???

[OneBlueSky]

4. it's not a creek, it's a "crick" . . .

and I do remember Loblaw's . . . and AM&As . . . of course, I lived up that way about 40 years ago . . . :)