I left for Buffalo to experience their famous Buffalo wings with my sister
Karen and friend
Tommy.
On the way we passed the polluted industrial section of Hamilton. Karen shouted how all the stacks were on fire:
I was afraid to cross the border because Tommy is well known for his trouble at the border. He was born in Indonesia and that somehow profiles him as a high risk terrorist. Last time, after he told them where he was born, they told him and
Kevin to step out of the car, take off their shoes, and then park their car to the side while they did a 20 minute search, all the while they were forbidden to speak. We got through fine this time.
After, when we got near my school we saw a wonderful man in an empty parking lot during mid day batoning. He was so focused and oblvious to everything else that I'm convinced perhaps, maybe, quite possibly he was training for the olympics:
We were about to drive to The Anchor Bar, the actual home of the original Buffalo wings, when we got inside information from a Buffalo resident informing us how although they do have good wings and they are the home of the original, they have lost their title of best wings to Gabriel's Gate. I already had eaten at Anchor bar so I decided to try Gabriel's Gate. Along the way we saw a man on a motorized wheelchair weaving to and fro in the middle of the road. I tried very carefully to avoid hitting him. He, on the other hand, didn't seem like he minded either way:
When we got to Gabriel's I was quite impressed. The decor had an authentic woodsy feel to it, and it looked well kept. The Anchor Bar on the other hand was in a sketchy part of town, so sketchy in fact that their surrounding fence had 3 layers of barbed wire. The one scary thing about Gabriel's was how they had stuffed animal heads everywhere. Their masterpiece was a giant buffalo head:
Tommy started pigging out:
The wings were very good but in a different way than Anchor Bar. I thought the size and sauce for both were equal, but Anchor Bar had better tasting skin (more crunchy and bbq smoked tasting) and Gabriel's had better tasting meat (more tender and fresh tasting). They both were the best wings I had tasted and it really depended on what whether you value skin or meat more. I would suggest Anchor Bar if you could only go once to Buffalo because then you could say you ate at the original source.
After eating so much Tommy fell asleep and broke his neck:
Haha just kidding. He just likes to get real comfortable with his legs up and all and we like to take advantage by taking pictures:
