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From: Dave Kimmel <>
Subject: Re: [KIMMEL] Food named for Kimmels
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:24:47 -0400


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


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David Kimmel
Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum
Heidelberg College
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