Amanda Rózsavölgyi, a Hungarian-born Albany resident, was a freshman in college when she first tried the locally loved melba sauce, a raspberry-flavored dip most often paired with mozzarella sticks.
Taken by the flavor combo, today it lives on her body forever in the form of a tattoo.
Brett Glasser, however, grew up in West Sand Lake and the Cohoes Mastodon inked on his arm serves as a reminder of his teenage days, skipping school in favor of the State Museum, where the skeleton is on permanent display.
Linking together transplants and natives alike is a love for the Capital Region made apparent by area-inspired tattoos. Some done by local artists, some done in beachside vacation towns, all inked on those proud of their ties to the Albany area…