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These are an absolute insult to even barely mediocre ribs. You'd think a wing joint would have at least passable ribs, but these sucked bad. My wife tried a burger there, too, which almost equally sucked and the dog got that for breakfast this morning.

The boneless wings, chicken tenders, onion rings and fries were all good to very good.

BWW = fucking chain.

Chain ribs are hit or miss, unless they really do the work on the premises. BWW gives you ones that were frozen 30 minutes ago.

Hard to fuck up fried food, though.

The potato wedges are all that I get there. A few orders. Delicious.

For wings, elsewhere.

In the one in Bozeman, MT the boneless wings are terrible. The regular wings are OK, but nothing I'd go back for. As stated, everything else sucks except for the large and varied beer selection.

I envy those in the Rust Belt, Ohio region who have not just Fricker's but Quaker Steak and Lube to indulge in...

Dirt McGirt wrote:I envy those in the Rust Belt, Ohio region who have not just Fricker's but Quaker Steak and Lube to indulge in...

But Holy Fuck do you have to deal with LARP bikers types at a Quaker Steak. I can't count the amount the of mg of valium I have to take to just walk past their bicycles without wanting to kill one of them.

Weird that the best wings IMHO in my neck of the woods are from a local pizza franchise. Real sized chicken, real sauce.

Holy Fuck do you have to deal with LARP bikers types at a Quaker Steak.

This is a point well taken.

BUT, the key is to avoid eating at the big, fluffy, dressed-up locations that have that 90-foot 'bike patio.'

A couple years back we were in Youngstown during that blizzard for the Pavlik/Rubio fight, and we ate at the little QSL that is in an old pizza hut or something. Only like 10 tables there. Good stuff.

Driving back to DC in that nonsense was not.

Dirt McGirt wrote:

Holy Fuck do you have to deal with LARP bikers types at a Quaker Steak.

This is a point well taken.

BUT, the key is to avoid eating at the big, fluffy, dressed-up locations that have that 90-foot 'bike patio.'

A couple years back we were in Youngstown during that blizzard for the Pavlik/Rubio fight, and we ate at the little QSL that is in an old pizza hut or something. Only like 10 tables there. Good stuff.

Driving back to DC in that nonsense was not.

Youngstown -> DC. Which variety of shit-hole do you like better?

Youngstown -> DC. Which variety of shit-hole do you like better?

Well, Y'town sort of appeals to the born-and-bred white trash in me...

I hadn't been to that region in quite some time, and Y'town was ROUGH. Like, 'parts of Detroit' rough.

They had, however, kept the campus and the church there all looking pretty good.

Anyway, it *seems* to me that the difference between the two is that the ne'er-do-wells in D.C. could probably find a job, if they really wanted. Y'town is post-apocalyptic, or at least post-auto-industry.

Then there's other sometimes-homes of mine, like Baltimore, and, more recently, Memphis. Ugh.

Buffalo Wild Wings is dogshit fo' sho'.

Kazuya Mishima wrote:Buffalo Wild Wings is dogshit fo' sho'.

This.

If you go to this place looking for anything outside of lukewarm chicken shit then you are kidding yourself.

Ironic.

A BWW is going in about 5 miles down the road.

I like their beer specials.

Dirt McGirt wrote:

Youngstown -> DC. Which variety of shit-hole do you like better?

Well, Y'town sort of appeals to the born-and-bred white trash in me...

I hadn't been to that region in quite some time, and Y'town was ROUGH. Like, 'parts of Detroit' rough.

They had, however, kept the campus and the church there all looking pretty good.

Anyway, it *seems* to me that the difference between the two is that the ne'er-do-wells in D.C. could probably find a job, if they really wanted. Y'town is post-apocalyptic, or at least post-auto-industry.

Then there's other sometimes-homes of mine, like Baltimore, and, more recently, Memphis. Ugh.

Had a buddy from Youngstown and when I visited I couldn't believe what it was like. Detroit is exactly what I thought.

Last I heard Youngstown was cutting city services to residents in very sparsely populated areas.

A lot of good diners though.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:BWW = fucking chain.

Chain ribs are hit or miss, unless they really do the work on the premises. BWW gives you ones that were frozen 30 minutes ago.

CHAIN RIBS ARE NOT TRUE RIBS.

I had the hot wings and the ribs at Swiss Chalet last week. The ribs were surprisingly good. Were they the best ever? Of course not, but they were tender and succulent.

The wings were the real surprise. Really crispy and meaty, and their in-house special blend hot sauce was bold and flavorful, and a nice change from chains that just drown their wings in Dave's Red Hot.

I used to drink on the regular at BWW before I moved overseas. I don't recall eating anything besides wings there. The beer selection was good to spectacular.

Clearly I made the safe bet.

Finally tried out our local BWW.

Wings, burgers, and fries were good.