You do have the best brewery that I’ve ever been to, for sure. However, Utica lost huge points in my book when the Electric Company closed. CNY needs more places like that, not fewer :(

Beef on weck is great. While passing through Buffalo, I discovered Charlie the Butcher's Kitchen and [indecipherable eating noises].

Chicken Riggies are the greatest dish on earth. It makes me sad that Gentile's isn't around in Syracuse anymore. His were the best I've ever had.

Ditto. I don't even understand what he's saying.

We totally do. My grandparents live in Oneida during the winters and at their “camp” on Oneida Lake during the summers. My grandpa built it (with a hammer and a hand saw, no lie) after the war to get their kids out of the city once school ended due to polio. The year that he finishes it is when they came out with the…

I'm from Canastota, living in Syracuse now. Small world!

1. Utica Greens are one of my all time favorite dishes. Good on you, Chris. You should do Chicken Riggies next. Utica is a shithole of a city, but they’ve contributed some great food to humanity.

Yer darn tootin’.

The last one that I went to had changed format to more of an upscale sports bar type place. The magic was gone, man.

Man, does anyone remember the Ground Round? That was my favorite place on Earth as a kid. I could play arcade games in the lobby, eat chicken wings, watch silent Chaplin movies, get a slider sundae... That place was the best.

Oh my god, you’re one of THOSE.

Class of 100 for us. U moved to Syracuse and we just had our first child; she's going to have a MUCH different public school experience than I did!

I'm from Canastota, which isn't too far away. We hold the Native American history of our village in a fair amount of respect, but there's still quite a bit of racial prejudice toward the Oneidas, which is shameful.

Completely unrelated, but you have my favorite username on all of Kinja.

Robert Jordan is dead and he still needs an editor more than GRRM.

Did I miss your Rick Perry obituary?

Well, as someone who is today losing the second member of their gaming group in three months to a move out of town for a job, I can tell you exactly what happened.

Who originally came up with “amplified toupee stand”? That one was great.

I quit The Americans in mid-season 2 (something had to be cut, I was watching too much TV), but I regret it. I have a newborn now, so the prospect of catching up seems daunting. Frankly, I don’t know if I’m going to try.

We got married last year and my wife kept her last name. We also decided that our children (the first of whom was born a few weeks ago) would inherit her name. I was fully on board with this because: