My own personal opening day

Take me out!

 Happy Spring!

Baseball is back - even if we had to go to Buffalo for it to be back.

Yesterday was opening day down the thruway, with a knock out crowd - it really was a lovely day. Still nice today, a little cooler - well, a lot, but still a good day 

at the ballpark!

 BEEF-ON-WECK

A beef on weck sandwich is a variety of steak sandwich found primarily in Western New York.^[1][2][3] It is made withroast beef on a kummelweck roll. The meat on the sandwich is traditionally served rare, thin cut, with the top bun getting a dip au jus. Accompaniments include horseradish, a dill pickle spear, and french fries.

The kummelweck roll gives the sandwich its name and a distinctive taste. A kummelweck (sometimes pronounced "kimmelweck" or "kümmelweck") is topped with kosher salt and caraway fruits. Kümmel is the German word for caraway, and weck means "roll" in the south-western German dialects of the Baden and Swabia areas (northern Germans generally say Brötchen), although the kind of weck used for this sandwich in America tends to be much softer and fluffier than a standard German Kümmelbrötchen or Kümmelweck.^[2] The sandwich has been introduced to new areas of the United States with population movement. In Austria, a similar type of small white-bread is known asKümmelweckerl (diminutive from Wecken, which refers to a whole big bread, i.e. Brotwecken).

The origin and history of the beef on weck sandwich is not well established.^[3] It is believed that a German baker named William Wahr, who is thought to have emigrated from the Black Forest region of Germany, created the kummelweck roll while living in Buffalo, New York.^[3] A local pub owner is said to have used the roll to create the beef on weck, with the thought that the salty top of the roll would make his patrons purchase more drinks.^[4][5]

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 Neil and Jack enjoying a beef on weck

 I just went with a hot dog and a few cold beers.

 big beefy buffalo boys also enjoying beef on wecks

I really enjoy this ball park.

Wings lost, and really, we were sort of ok with that, it was just too cold for free baseball.

A RARE very good story in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on
our local RED WINGS OPENING DAY '13