The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

meth mouth vs a tooted out nose

TGR has become the consummate argue about everything website.

Used to live in Balston Spa in another life. Figured that was upstate from most of NY.

No one is arguing, we just don't know what parts of the state are what, exactly.

Huckbucket's map is helping us get there though.

Now, who wants wings and cheap beer for lunch?

All this talk of Utica Club and Genny Cream brings me back to the infamous Matt's Beerball. Matt's is the parent company that makes UC as a premium beer. They named their shittier cheaper beer after themselves. And they put the shittiest of that in the beerballs.

The best thing about them was shooting them with a pellet gun when they were empty, the pellet could go through the plastic to get inside there but it wouldn't have enough power to go though the other side to get back out so it would just spin around inside the ball at high speed making this weird sound that only a Matt's beerball shot with a pellet gun can make.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/resiz...YFEQGX4W7A.jpg

From the very relevant newyorkupstate.com btw

"There are 3, only 3, great draft beers in the entire world. One of them comes in this contraption."

I'd buy that beer.

I remember those Beerballs. Gotta admit it was a good idea for the time.

What do you think they considered the other two "great draft beers" to be? You've got to assume one of them is Guinness. I'd go with Pilsner Urquell for the other, but who knows what they were thinking.

Matt's Beerballs FTW!!!!

Yeah and by the time you got to the second one, and started shooting the first one, the beer went down easy.

The head on that beerball beer looks a lot frothier than I remember it.

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Originally Posted by riser3

Matt's Beerballs FTW!!!!

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Beerball soccer when you're done!

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Originally Posted by riser3

Matt's Beerballs FTW!!!!

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many a Genny cream beer ball too in my day.

When did the good people at Coors appropriate this technology? Cause those were the only beerballs we had growing up.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

All this talk of Utica Club and Genny Cream brings me back to the infamous Matt's Beerball. Matt's is the parent company that makes UC as a premium beer. They named their shittier cheaper beer after themselves. And they put the shittiest of that in the beerballs.

The best thing about them was shooting them with a pellet gun when they were empty, the pellet could go through the plastic to get inside there but it wouldn't have enough power to go though the other side to get back out so it would just spin around inside the ball at high speed making this weird sound that only a Matt's beerball shot with a pellet gun can make.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/resiz...YFEQGX4W7A.jpg

From the very relevant newyorkupstate.com btw

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we drilled a hole in a matt's beer ball and inserted a long threaded stem piece with a bowl at the end

at the top we cut a hole large enough so you could insert your head into the beer ball and sealed the "space helmet" up with towels around your shoulders.

last step was light bowl and see how long you could wear the space helmet

good times - good times

plattsburgh state 1983

And that's pure Upstate...













Seriously though, hilarious visual

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Thanks, while there is that depressing-ass strip of land known as Erie, PA between Lake Chautauqua and the Western Reserve of Connecticut (otherwise known as Northeast Ohio), It's been my experience that the majority of Chautauqua enthusiasts hail from that state, while only stopping in Erie for the Chick Fil A and to see if the highway is closed across the border due to blizzard conditions.

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Chick Fil A is a bit more recent edition. Used to have to stop at the Quaker Steak and Lube before there were locations opened in Cleveland area.

And Erie did just get this bit of recognition: 24th Best Most Livable Small City https://smartasset.com/checking-acco...in-the-us-2020

And Cheettowaga, NY was listed as number 1 (which is in the Western NY area listed as give to Canada basically...

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Originally Posted by RShea

And Cheettowaga, NY was listed as number 1 (which is in the Western NY area listed as give to Canada basically...

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Cheektavegas! LOL - #1? Unless you enjoy the rumble of the airport, it blows.

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Originally Posted by RShea

And Cheettowaga, NY

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Home of the crunchy, cheesy snack of the same name?

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Originally Posted by RShea

Chick Fil A is a bit more recent edition. Used to have to stop at the Quaker Steak and Lube before there were locations opened in Cleveland area.

And Erie did just get this bit of recognition: 24th Best Most Livable Small City https://smartasset.com/checking-acco...in-the-us-2020

And Cheettowaga, NY was listed as number 1 (which is in the Western NY area listed as give to Canada basically...

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I've been to that Quaker Steak and Lube.

We were in Erie for a wedding a lifetime ago and the one takeaway we got from the area was that there was a bar we went to after the rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception because $20 got you a round of beers and shots for 8 people and still had enough to leave a $5 tip. Scorchers, I think.

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Originally Posted by SB

TGR has become the consummate argue about everything website.

Used to live in Balston Spa in another life. Figured that was upstate from most of NY.

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I don’t think anybody would argue that Balston Spa isn’t upstate in every possible way.

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Peekskill has a major semi express train stop on the Hudson line with a massive parking lot. Not upstate.

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I agree. I was just pointing out that it’s a shithole. What’s your ruling on Rockland County? You have to switch trains in NJ to get here by rail.

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Originally Posted by St. Jerry

Beerball soccer when you're done!

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had a party at a buddies house in high school, cleaned up late that night got everything back in order, his parents came home the next morning, we woke up later that day
I always remember looking out the window and his little brother was playing kick ball with the matts beer ball in the yard
split pretty quick and let him deal with that

Fuck. Upstate Utica beerball drinking redneck life sounds like fun.
I had no idea.

Carry on

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Originally Posted by The AD

What do you think they considered the other two "great draft beers" to be? You've got to assume one of them is Guinness. I'd go with Pilsner Urquell for the other, but who knows what they were thinking.

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Genny Cream and Utica Club?

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

Fuck. Upstate Utica beerball drinking redneck life sounds like fun.
I had no idea.

Carry on

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I prefer the term woodchuck. And yes, it is fun.

Who would win in a fight then, a Woodchuck or a Mainer?

We bought, consumed, and shot our beerballs right there at home in Massachusetts. We imported that shit. But it was fun. It also wasn't the worst import we consumed, that honor would have to go to The Green Death, from Rhode Island:

https://i.imgur.com/e5ZUlQI.jpg

my head hurts thinking about it

Pretty good description here: http://365beersand50pounds.blogspot....r-private.html

The little puzzles under the bottle cap were fun at least.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Who would win in a fight then, a Woodchuck or a Mainer?

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Good question. I believe they would get along famously so we may never solve that one.

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Originally Posted by Brownski

Good question. I believe they would get along famously so we may never solve that one.

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I had a feeling.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

We bought, consumed, and shot our beerballs right there at home in Massachusetts. We imported that shit. But it was fun. It also wasn't the worst import we consumed, that honor would have to go to The Green Death, from Rhode Island:

https://i.imgur.com/e5ZUlQI.jpg

my head hurts thinking about it

Pretty good description here: http://365beersand50pounds.blogspot....r-private.html

The little puzzles under the bottle cap were fun at least.

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Woah, also from Upstate. Private Stock Brewing Co., Utica, NY.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

No one is arguing, we just don't know what parts of the state are what, exactly.

Huckbucket's map is helping us get there though.

Now, who wants wings and cheap beer for lunch?

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Me. Very much so.

So much I made wing sauce and put it on a BBQ sandwich for lunch today.

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Originally Posted by ötzi

All this talk of Utica Club and Genny Cream brings me back to the infamous Matt's Beerball. Matt's is the parent company that makes UC as a premium beer. They named their shittier cheaper beer after themselves. And they put the shittiest of that in the beerballs.

The best thing about them was shooting them with a pellet gun when they were empty, the pellet could go through the plastic to get inside there but it wouldn't have enough power to go though the other side to get back out so it would just spin around inside the ball at high speed making this weird sound that only a Matt's beerball shot with a pellet gun can make.

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/resiz...YFEQGX4W7A.jpg

From the very relevant newyorkupstate.com btw

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All of this is absolutely true.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Who would win in a fight then, a Woodchuck or a Mainer?

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This is not a good question. This is a stupid question. I know the answer. Based on personal experience and observation, the Upstater beats the shit out of the Mainer 9 times out of 10. It’s not because they are stronger, quicker or better fighters. It’s because they no longer feel pain. Emotional or physical.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Woah, also from Upstate. Private Stock Brewing Co., Utica, NY.

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It's been brewed by about 5 different companies, the early ones were Falstaff and Narragansett , both from Rhode Island. The company in Utica I think is actually Matts under a different name, so it was part of the Utica Club family for a while. Now I think Pabst has the trademarks but doesn't make it any more.

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Originally Posted by EWG

This is not a good question. This is a stupid question. I know the answer. Based on personal experience and observation, the Upstater beats the shit out of the Mainer 9 times out of 10. It’s not because they are stronger, quicker or better fighters. It’s because they no longer feel pain. Emotional or physical.

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They're basically Russians. Life doesn't matter to them.

The real genius of the beerball was that you could pack it in ice in the box it came in.

As someone mentioned earlier, I don’t remember the beer having any carbonation at all. Just flat beer. But who knew any better?

Southern Tier kid.

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Originally Posted by EWG

This is not a good question. This is a stupid question. I know the answer. Based on personal experience and observation, the Upstater beats the shit out of the Mainer 9 times out of 10. It’s not because they are stronger, quicker or better fighters. It’s because they no longer feel pain. Emotional or physical.

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Damn. Given that it’s end times, I should probably start looking into a bugout cabin Upstate (WNY) somewhere around the Avalanche Zone. If shit hits the fan I’ll be surrounded by emotionally dead warriors with nothing left but the desire to fight off the impending doom.

In.

Utica had the best looking women in Upstate when Mohawk was training all of their stewies there. Endicott was #2 for eye candy on the street.

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Originally Posted by Stu Gotz

The real genius of the beerball was that you could pack it in ice in the box it came in.

As someone mentioned earlier, I don’t remember the beer having any carbonation at all. Just flat beer. But who knew any better?

Southern Tier kid.

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Southern Tier is the shit. One of my favorite breweries.

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Originally Posted by DBdude

we drilled a hole in a matt's beer ball and inserted a long threaded stem piece with a bowl at the end

at the top we cut a hole large enough so you could insert your head into the beer ball and sealed the "space helmet" up with towels around your shoulders.

last step was light bowl and see how long you could wear the space helmet

good times - good times

plattsburgh state 1983

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SU 1985. Same thing only one of the guys had a kids science kit that had a build your own mini vacumn cleaner. Modified it and put it between the bowl and the ball. Put helmet on, light bowl, turn on blower and enjoy.

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Originally Posted by Flounder

SU 1985. Same thing only one of the guys had a kids science kit that had a build your own mini vacumn cleaner. Modified it and put it between the bowl and the ball. Put helmet on, light bowl, turn on blower and enjoy.

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Wtf. You had a beer ball on your head, a bowl of weed in your hand and these were connected to a vacuum cleaner stuck between them and turned the vacuum on?

The 'Cuse was always a weird place.