At 05:05 AM 9/13/00 EDT, you wrote: >Hi everyone. I was in Corning, NY last weekend and had lunch in a local >restaurant. On the menu, to my surprise, was Au Jus Beef on a Kimmelwick bun. >I asked the waiter if he knew what a Kimmelwick bun was but he didn't. >Needless to say, I ordered it. It was smaller than a kaiser roll and had >caraway seeds on it. Anyone out there every hear of it before? > I've never written to this group, but I'm a devoted lurker. In the Buffalo area, a famous bar food is wings and weck, which means buffalo wings (most people have heard of them) and beef-on-weck sandwiches. The bun is called Kimmelweck, from the German word for caraway seeds, Kummel. The word is often written Kimmelweck in that area, and I've seen those buns so advertised in stores there. Incidently, in Ohio there is a chain of restaurants called BW-3, which stands for Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck, so we're famous at least indirectly. I have to confess that I've never eaten the Weck at BW-3, 'cause I really don't care for a salt-and-carraway bun. Dave ____________________________________________ David Kimmel Assistant Professor of English Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum Heidelberg College ____________________________________________ Time flies when you're being stupid. Hwang, _M. Butterfly_