I dipped the celery into the blue cheese dressing. Trillin tells us that, in Buffalo, ”Chicken wings are always offered ‘mild’ or ‘medium’ or ‘hot’…and they are always accompanied by celery and blue cheese dressing. The last time I was in Buffalo was in the early 1960s, several years before both the invention of the chicken wing, and before my achieving an age at which I could legally enter a bar and order a plateful, along with that other Buffalonian specialty called the beef-on-weck sandwich.Īccording to food writer Calvin Trillin, there are several hundred places in Buffalo where you can order Buffalo chicken wings.
I must admit that I’ve never tasted Buffalo chicken wings within the city limits of Buffalo, New York. Is the celery to be dipped in the dressing? Is the dressing for the wings? And if it’s anything less than extremely hot, are they really Buffalo chicken wings? The dish does offer some bits of confusion, for the hot sauce drenched wings (cut into drumettes) are served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing.
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Along with nachos, French fries and onion rings, wings are the perfect accompaniment to a pitcher of beer and a ballgame on the TV over the pool table - at least it was back in “normal” times. This spicy deep-fried bar snack went on to become one of the definitive pub foods of the 20th (and now the 21st) century. 30, 1964, by owner Teressa Bellissimo in response to an excess shipment of chicken wings ordered by her husband Frank (who had wanted backs and necks for his spaghetti sauce). The Buffalo chicken wing was invented at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, on Oct. It’s a relative newcomer, with a nigh-on obsessive following. But these days, to the pantheon of great barbecue dishes to consume in clucking heaps come the Fourth, we must add the much-loved Buffalo chicken wing. We still eat our burgers and dogs, and drink our beer in copious quantities. And Lord knows we would drink beer, lots and lots of beer, from long-forgotten brands with names like Old Milwaukee, Pils, Rheingold, Olympia and Jax. We’d inhale Everests of coleslaw and potato salad. Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and we cranked up the backyard Weber to celebrate the Fourth of July - the anniversary of our freedom and liberty - we’d cook hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill.