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jfw
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Username: Jfw
Post Number: 30
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:50 pm: | 
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we're having a party and looking for suggestions on who makes the best buffalo wings in the area and sells large quantities for take-out. any favorites? |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 257
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 2:55 pm: |
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O'Reilly's has apparently been voted best a time or two, on Millburn Ave across from VW dealership. I've had their wings a few times and like them alot. Don't know if they do take out but have to guess that they would. |
mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 1892
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 3:12 pm: |
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O'Reilly's. |
growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 220
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 3:23 pm: |
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St. James Gate. By far, hands down |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 105
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 5:03 pm: |
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Cluck-U chicken, South Orange Ave., near Seton hall |
Dave Ross
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 5052
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 1:57 pm: |
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Cluck U is the correct answer here (w/thermo nuclear heat).*
* have not tried St. James Gate's yet. |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 732
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 2:36 pm: |
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O'Reilly's. Period.
Growler: "St. James Gate. By far, hands down"
And you're basing that on a WHOLE two days ...
O'Reilly's! Period!
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moose
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Username: Moose
Post Number: 125
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 2:55 pm: |
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O'Reillys. Especially when Big Train is playing there. |
Flt
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Username: Flt
Post Number: 75
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 3:13 pm: |
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Cluck U is the only place that has wings that do not taste like everyone else's. I'm addicted. O's are good, too, but must lack the secret ingredient, whatever it is. |
joecool
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Username: Joecool
Post Number: 69
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 5:29 pm: |
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I've never had the wings at O'Reilly's, but in general I think their food stinks and how is it possible there is no fish and chips on the menu (same goes for Cryans). |
akb
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Username: Akb
Post Number: 115
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 8:30 pm: |
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Call it a public service (or complete suggestibility!) but after reading this thread we HAD to have wings tonight. We went to cluck-u and they were indeed excellent. Very meaty too. Definite thumbs-up from this household.
Thanks (I think) for pointing us there! |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 735
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 9:19 pm: |
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Joecool said: "I've never had the wings at O'Reilly's, but in general ..."
JC, the thread's about wings ... Stay with the program. |
amandacat
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Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 211
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 9:49 pm: |
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I've had fish 'n chips at Cryans a few times, but not in the last year. Have they changed their menu? |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 154
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 22, 2003 - 11:14 pm: |
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I think the wings at O'Reilly's are chewy. I hate 'em. I love Church's Kitchen's wings but I think the best are at Sun Tavern in Roselle Park. |
joecool
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Username: Joecool
Post Number: 70
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 11:37 am: |
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Chris,
It might be likely that if most of the food stinks at O'Reilly's than so do the wings! I trust the opinion of Jeffl on this and it seems the wings do indeed stink. Perhaps you could arrange to bring a variety of "wing vendors" to MayFest 2004 and it can be decided there who makes the best. |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 737
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 1:04 pm: |
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Joecool: JeffL wouldn't know a good wing if it bit him in the butt ... But the the "Wing-Off" is a great idea! |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 155
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 11:14 pm: |
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Consider the First Annual Best Maplewood Wings contest a go for the Mayfest. Of course, there might only be two contestants.
I guess Chris Dickson, being the barfly he is, is the supreme ar-biter of chicken wings and he couldn't possibly be influenced by the fact that O'Reilly's is the "home bar" for Big Train. Nah.
Yo Chris, I suppose they also have the best veal cordon bleu too? The first time you get an invite to the pub we'll see if your vote changes. Humph! |
growler
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Username: Growler
Post Number: 221
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 1:48 pm: |
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Chris, Chris, Chris....a whole two days? Of course. It's the first thing I went for. The biggest advantage is that their wings are not frozen and that all the sauce is made there. Mind you they are dry and you dip them yourself but it's well worth the non-frozen taste and fresh sauce. Try em and get back to me. |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 87
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 2:11 pm: |
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If one bad experience is all that is needed to turn someone off to a restaurant, a whole two days of great wings is enough in my mind(especially if you are the local Norm already) to turn me on to a good public house.
Hey Growler - Is St. James Gate one of those new-fangled internet pubs? Go home!!!! It's been five days already! |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 742
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 2:59 pm: |
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JeffL: First of all, O'Reilly's is not the "home bar" for Big Train. Truth be told, the band usually ends up at Hawk's in Vauxhall for our post-practice brew. THE oldest beer in the state ... No, O'Reilly's veal cordon bleu is not the best. We're talking WINGS here people ...
"The first time you get an invite to the pub"?? An invite? Wow. I tell you what: All you sissy mary types run down there in your "Kiss Me I'm Irish" skirts and order your pints (Uh, only one (Mate!), I have to get up tomorrow ...), watching a game of "football" (Soccer you morons!)while listening to that gawd awful Irish music, standing on the side walk with your faces presses against the window like the twits you are. "Oh, can I have some bangers and mashies? How 'about some fish 'n' chips" ...
When I think of Ireland I think a lot of colorful Irish expressions like, "Top of the morning to ya," "Kiss the barney stone," "May the road rise to meet ya," "May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead," "I'd like to smash you in the face with my shillelagh," "Danny-boy," "Begorra," "Wail of the banshee," and "Whiskey for the leprechauns, whisky for the leprechauns." But the expression I think most people identify with the Irish, is, of course, the luck of the Irish.
The luck of the Irish. Sure. Let's say you're in a pub somewhere in Ireland, oh, anywhere in Ireland, some guy comes up to you and says, "Hey is that a bomb on you I hear ticking?" And then BAM!!! Your small intestines are on the ceiling and your brains are on your car across the street. That's the luck of the Irish for ya, who's kidding who, okay.
Let's talk about the bad luck of the Irish, all right? How about this, POTATO FAMINE!! How about that? It scares them, doesn't it? Well, it should. That's why they came here in the first place. So they wouldn't have to work in the potato fields. That's why they became politicians, priests, and cops. Luck? Gimme a break.
I got a friend, his name is Dan Sullivan, he's Irish as they come. We used to drink together a lot. After two drinks, he would look like an Irish pirate. You know? You think he had luck? In one day he got his car stolen, and the stupid, he had no insurance, and no license, and he gets locked up for being drunk. And after that, he takes off for someplace like India or Nepal, or someplace like that. And his mother dies, ya know, so they wire him to tell him to come to the funeral. It's his mother's funeral, that's all. And he's in India or Nepal, sitting squat-legged listening to some sacred cow. So he comes back and he gets stopped at U.S. Customs for trafficking illegal drugs, not holding, he's trafficking. I mean, here's this guy Sullivan, his old lady kicks off, he gets popped at the border and he's sitting on fifty pounds of black Tibetan finger hash and two keys of slam. Now that's not bad luck, that's DUMB luck. I don't think luck has anything to do with it, I don't think he has any brains at all. First of all, he's drunk, then he's a junkie. I don't know what's worse! Don't ask me, ask Sullivan! And what happens?! He calls me up and says, "Hey man, I got busted at the border. I need five grand bail." I said, I said, "Five grand man!? Hey man, I've never even seen five thousand dollars in my life, so don't ask me for it, man, why don't you ask your mother!!" Which was a dumb thing for me to say because his mother just died. Right now, I got this drunken Irish junkie who wants to kill me because of what I said about his mother being in terminal dreamland! Oh pal. One thing! One thing!!! They love their mothers, boy, oh they love their mothers. It's momma this, momma that. Oh my Irish mother! Ireland must be heaven, because my mother.. Aauugghhh! Aaauugghhh!!!
I wish St. James Gate well, but it'll be a while before I put my white Irish ass on a seat in there ...
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moose
Citizen
Username: Moose
Post Number: 126
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 3:02 pm: |
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Chris,
Nice rant!
Moose |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 712
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 3:06 pm: |
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Now theres a stream of consciousness post. But Roddy Doyle..theres an Irishman who had a good musical sense of priority, dont you think? And Chris, does this mean youre not joining us after softball? Maybe I can bring one of your bases into the pub since you wont set foot in it. |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 743
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 3:08 pm: |
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My rants gets raves ... |
joecool
Citizen
Username: Joecool
Post Number: 73
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 3:49 pm: |
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Chris,
ya okay? You seem a wee bit GRUMPY today! |
growler
Citizen
Username: Growler
Post Number: 222
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 5:37 pm: |
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I think he needs a hug. Or maybe a pint. |
CFA
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 962
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 7:26 pm: |
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I thought Chris' post was EXCELLENT!!!!! |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 26
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 7:35 pm: |
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I'm gonna add my 2 cents and bring in an expert witness.
My wife is both Irish-American And from Upstate NY (the home of Buffalo Wings). She loves to eat corned beef and cabbage at Irish Pubs and wings from Cluck-U. In her words, "Cluck-U is the closest I've tasted to the real thing ".
Case closed. |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 156
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 9:26 pm: |
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A tag angry laddie? Phew. Chris, take a breath. Stop and smell the hops man. I'm a trained professional and I know self-hate when I see it. There are drugs for your condition. How about a pint to wash down that Prozac dude? And to think you're having these thoughts living across the street from me. Thank God I didn't think Tabatchniks had the best wings! That's a tirade that would have hit MY heritage. First round is on me. Feel better now? I'm dragging your white Irish ass to the pub tomorrow. Who's with me? |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 28
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 12:21 am: |
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I kinda dug the wacko, stream of consciousness (sp) rant. If Chris puts this to music, I may even buy it. Make sure ya leave room for a Uke solo. |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 749
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 8:31 am: |
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Prozac & Beer ... It's just not for breakfast anymore! |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 750
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 8:32 am: |
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Prozac & Beer ... It's just not for breakfast anymore! |
ashear
Citizen
Username: Ashear
Post Number: 677
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 8:58 am: |
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It was a nice rant, even better when Belushi did it. (Hey, nothing wrong with borrowing from one of the best) |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 157
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 10:31 am: |
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Thanks for the clarification ashear. I didn't know where that came from. |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 751
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 3:39 pm: |
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Ashear: Very good. T.S. Eliot said, "The immature artist borrows. The mature artist steals." I am disappointed that it took so long for the rest of the gang to notice ... |
jeffl
Citizen
Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 158
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 4:50 pm: |
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The only thing of which we were certain was that Dickson couldn't have written it. |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 752
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 5:30 pm: |
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Actually, I wrote the first part ... Everything up to "When I think of Ireland ..."
Hey, speaking of SJG: I heard it was closed yesterday. Closed?! Did Cheers ever close? And it doesn't open until 5:30 on Saturday? What about grabbing a pint (Mate!) and watching a ball game? Boys and girls: SJG is not a PUB. It's a restaurant, an Irish restaurant ... Let me tell you something else, as sure as me mammy's maiden name is Flynn, there is no bigger oxymoron in the world than the phrase Irish restaurant!
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2018
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 10:55 pm: |
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Chris Dickson wrote:
"I am disappointed that it took so long for the rest of the gang to notice ..."
Umm, maybe we were being polite?
Remember who you're dealing with here - the Google kings of Maplewood. |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1175
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 11:21 pm: |
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I am hoping (assuming) the pub will start opening earlier. Anyone? |
lawally
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Username: Lawally
Post Number: 13
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 9:47 am: |
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The hostess/maitre d' said they were planning to open for lunch in a week or two. |
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