Yes, but it looks unflattering to put a whole wing in your mouth at once and then have them come out cleaned to the bone.

i prefer fried to being half-baked in a rancid ass bbq/"hot" sauce.

Are "buffalo wings" the same as good old honest to goodness HOT WINGS as found in Dallas Fried Chicken et al?

I thought they did originate in Buffalo

I ate 32 in one sitting once, I was quite proud of this. and (for shame) it was at a hooters in Jacksonville)

2) ts: drumstick vs. wing?
Wing!

4) people breading them - wtf?
I dunno.

5) when david letterman quizzed jessica simpson on her previous belief that buffalo wings came from buffalo was her response really "I ask the questions others are afraid to ask"?
Sounds too intelligent to have come out of Jessica Simpson's mouth. If it'd been Kelly Osbourne, on the other hand, maybe.

6) people ordering 'mild' ones - wtf?
They is pain weenies.

7) is there any way to eat them that doesn't make you feel like an animal?
Nope. Gotta satiate those primeval urges somehow.

8) I don't think I saw buffalo wings on the menu anywhere in europe - has it not 'broke' there yet?
Dunno. But sports bars aren't really huge deals in Europe, are they?

9) how come you can't get good mexican food in europe?
This question is really too silly to answer. Though I do know of people of Mexican ancestry living in England....

10) if you've ever worked in a place that made them how long until you were able to eat them again?
n/a

Me: "Bitch, you know i like mine with Bovril."

Hooters Waitress: *Kicks me in the face*

Me: "Damn, yo."

Random Dude: "AH SNAP!"

The entire state of Arkansas is one large chicken farm (or it seems to be).

1 GA 1,247,300

2 AR 1,170,900

3 AL 1,007,600

4 MS 765,300

5 NC 712,300

6 TX 565,500

United States Total 8,389,100

So the total number of chickens produced each year = 8.3 billion

Buffalo Wild Wings makes the only hot sauce I've never been able finish. I could not finish my plate of Wings, it was that hot. It was inedible. My hat it off to anyone who could eat that, and I've been known to munch on raw jalapenos.

GA #1!

Bad Wrong is the ideal spokesperson for ilx food threads

badbadnotwrong

buffalo chicken pizza can be delicious done properly

drumettes >>>> wingettes

Buffalo chicken pizza is worse than ISIS

― Treeship, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 7:16 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i want to retract this statement, publicly. there is a place for buffalo chicken pizza.

why did this come up for you today?

i am going to buffalo for a few days. wanted to see if there was good ilx content about it (not that there is anything to do there, really, during corona, but still). as often happens when i look in the archives, there is an embarrassing old post in there

as presumably happens when looking on SNA

i'm amused that you found an old opinion you had about food so embarrassing it needed public correction. are you close to some kind of buffalo chicken stakeholder now?

be a real head and eat beef on weck instead

for good buffalo chicken pizza and to maybe run into a griselda rapper, La Nova is the place

I've never understood wings at all. They're barely food. Why?

It's one of the few American foods to provide a "bold", spicy, intense-flavor experience

Seconding beef on weck. Have never been to Buffalo but there's a joint in my neighborhood owned by Buffalonians that offers it.

How are they "barely food?" They're fun little bite-sized bits of chicken. You can do all kinds of fun variations with them. I'm a vegetarian and even I understand wings.

Before I went veg I did used to go down to the local dive with my bros on 50 cent wing night, so maybe it's nostalgia talking, IDK

They're real fun to just stick in your mouth and inhale it off the bone. Can't do that with a drumstick or thigh.

I don't want to do any of those things to chicken. I don't want bones or sinew or a mouthful of skin. It's fine, they're just not for me.

wings are a perfect latenight drinking food bc they offer the pleasures of casual dippable fried fingerfood while being just barely complicated enough to eat that its hard to eat too much too fast.

as a resident i never understood beef on weck tbh, maybe i take it for granted. idk why its such a big deal that the roll has salt on it.

That's fair. I have a certain tolerance for bones in dishes like wings for example, but my wife will chew up every piece of gristle and fat and cartilage and suck the marrow out. Just crunching on her meal like a wayward hyena or something. And frankly it's a little frightening to me.

its hard to eat too much too fast

this can definitely be overcome with sufficient practice

some would say any amount is too much

the idea of wings grosses me out, yet I know if I had some hot wings in front of me right now I'd eat the hell out of them

As for beef on weck, I don't really understand what it is, but I find it hilarious that every rust belt state seems to have some "local delicacy" that is just a beef-carb combination that is a very slight variation on a more common beef-carb combination.

my wife will chew up every piece of gristle and fat and cartilage and suck the marrow out. Just crunching on her meal like a wayward hyena or something. And frankly it's a little frightening to me.

Tooootally. My partner PREFERS the tails left on shrimp. He audibly crunches through cartilage and connective tissue. There's a lot going on.

my mom's side of the family is all from the Buffalo area and beef on weck always seemed to me to be one of those old-timey local sandwiches that has been eclipsed by advancing sandwich technology and the general tastes of the public, yet retains a place of honor for being, like, an original sensation

wings on the other hand are imo a classic example of cooking unwanted or less-wanted parts of the animal and making something good out of them—not just Frank's-coated hot wings but wings in general, not unlike organ meats, sausages, etc

xp man alive otm on both counts

chicago has the italian beef, nyc pastrami on rye, philly steaks + the pork/broccoli raab sandwich, I'm sure there are many more

italian beef sandos rule

ime here beef on weck has definitely become one of those foods that is propped up as representing 'a local food' moreso than it is actually ever consumed

definitely a long-forgotten racial fault line as well btw wings (african american dish co-opted by a successful white family) & beef on weck (imported and enjoyed by longer-established euro immigrants), but its taboo to discuss locally

xp agreed, it's a classic for a reason

i'm here to regulate because people are apparently denigrating western new york delicacies! Buffalo wings are amazing; i don't understand not understanding wings. they're delicious, and Buffalo wings are superior to every other kind i've tried. item: everywhere i've lived except western new york fucks them up for some accursed reason. beef on weck is also delicious; it's the kimmelweck roll that does it. in my experience, food in rust belt cities is delicious because life is cold and hard and people understand comfort.

pastrami on rye is better than all the rust belt meat and carb variants, i have to admit

definitely buf wings are racial appropriation, but i think people quite openly acknowledge the indebtedness of other wny foods to euro immigrants, no? it's a city of white ethnics!

Pork & Raab is different enough that it doesn't count. I was thinking more of stuff like the "horseshoe sandwich" which apparently is just like a hamburger with french fries and cheese sauce on thick toast. Also I remember there being some kind of chili pasta thing maybe in ohio or st louis but I can't remember what it's called or which city.

maybe I'm just thinking of cincinatti chili, which is sometimes served with pasta

chili pasta is cincinatti, maybe?

I just feel like whenever I'm going to be passing through one of these cities and I start googling it's like "Where to get the BEST Albany Slammer" and an Albany slammer just turns out to be a roast beef sandwich but the top half of the bun is on the bottom or something.

chicken wings are great cos if you get in someone shows up that you don't like afterwards you can throw the bones at them

cincinnati chili is much more distinct from other chilis than italian beef is from other beef sandwiches

but I find it hilarious that every rust belt state seems to have some "local delicacy" that is just a beef-carb combination that is a very slight variation on a more common beef-carb combination.

The Juicy Lucy is perhaps my favorite example of this

xp to horseshoe for sure - i was more just thinking about the whitewashing of wings specifically, which is just weird that i never hear anyone mention locally, while the euro origins of other local specialties are much discussed.

imho the pierogi of buffalo are slept-on, increased proximity to a Great Lake correlates to an increase in pierogi quality ime. i used to know an ancient place on the east side run by an octogenarian polish couple - you had to call ahead to wake them up in case theyd closed to take a nap. like little pillows of starchy heaven.

i'm here to regulate because people are apparently denigrating western new york delicacies! Buffalo wings are amazing; i don't understand not understanding wings. they're delicious, and Buffalo wings are superior to every other kind i've tried. item: everywhere i've lived except western new york fucks them up for some accursed reason. beef on weck is also delicious; it's the kimmelweck roll that does it. in my experience, food in rust belt cities is delicious because life is cold and hard and people understand comfort.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, February 9, 2021 6:40 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

here here, beautiful post

looks like i'm going to get some takeout beef on wek in buffalo too! thank you

horseshoe ilu but you can't make me like wings. I will just have to be a terrible person.

I've had both wings and beef on wek *in* Buffalo, in fact the former was AT the Anchor Bar (it was on a work trip)! I wish Buffalo all the best.

The Juicy Lucy is perhaps my favorite example of this

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 1:59 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, this is not that far off from the one I made up

I passed by two Wing Stops on (Superbowl) Sunday, and saw long lines coming out of both; a first. And despite her mask, I recognized a friend-of-a-friend in one of the lines, and asked her about it - is this a Superbowl thing? Apparently, yes it is.

What do they do with the rest of the bird?

I mean, presumably they just buy wings from a chicken processor

i'm reminded of a leftist librarian i follow who used to do a bit about buffalo wild wings and how much she loved them.

i remember when i used to go out drinking many years ago, often the next day i wouldn't eat anything until around 5 p.m. when in a fit of animalistic hunger i would order a 15 pc from wing stop and then watch torrents of weeds or whatever.

haha it's very easy to buy big orders from Wingstop and gorge in front of the tv, i used to do that when i had one closer to me. it's no wonder my cholesterol isn't fatally high by now.

there is a yearly chicken wing festival at the local ballpark- i went to one of the early iterations and was disappointed to discover that the wings were being cooked centrally and each vendor was just applying their own sauce, which imo took a lot of variety out of the equation. i will never forget the site of enormous, truck-sized tubs of 1000s of pounds of cooked & uncooked wings being driven to and fro around the field.