How did the terrm Buffalo wings get started?!
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They are named after Buffalo, NY!. The city where they originated!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
One snowy night after work the people were gathering and their favorite watering hole in Buffalo, NY!. As the snow kept coming down harder and harder everyone decided that their would be no work tomorrow, so they continued to have a nice eat, drink and be merry time!.
The proprietors of the "Anchorage Bar" in Buffalo were trying their best to accommodate everyone, but also began to worry because they were running out of food!.
There specialties were fresh roasted chicken sandwiches with all kinds of toppings!. As they diminished the supply of chicken and Alot of their other food they came up with an idea!. They decided to take the left over chicken wings and season them and put them in the fryer and top them off with different seasonings and some celery and blue cheese dressings!.
Well to everyone's surprise they were a big hit and until today people visiting Buffalo and The Niagara Falls area everyone wants to know where the Anchorage Bar is!? And sometimes the tour buses will even take them there!.
So, the lowly little chicken wing put hamburgers right out of the box!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
The proprietors of the "Anchorage Bar" in Buffalo were trying their best to accommodate everyone, but also began to worry because they were running out of food!.
There specialties were fresh roasted chicken sandwiches with all kinds of toppings!. As they diminished the supply of chicken and Alot of their other food they came up with an idea!. They decided to take the left over chicken wings and season them and put them in the fryer and top them off with different seasonings and some celery and blue cheese dressings!.
Well to everyone's surprise they were a big hit and until today people visiting Buffalo and The Niagara Falls area everyone wants to know where the Anchorage Bar is!? And sometimes the tour buses will even take them there!.
So, the lowly little chicken wing put hamburgers right out of the box!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
There was some kind of confusion among early settlers in the new world who were unfamiliar with the large herding animals they found here!. Although the correct term is "Bison", the pioneers mistakenly called the animals "Buffalo" to associate them with an old-world animal they had seen before!.
Bison, of course, have small vestigial wing nubs!. These wing nubs were normally discarded by the American Indians who, as you know, did not have beer with which to consume them!. White settlers found that "Buffalo wings" could be had in trade for a handful of trinkets and thus were able to weather their first arduous winters with the much needed addition of protein to the diet of celery sticks upon which most pioneers subsisted (in addition to the aforementioned ale)!.
An interesting fact -- the bleu cheese condiment was added for the first time by visiting French dignitaries (namely, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps) in 1886!. Forewarned of the comparatively insipid cuisine of the former English colonies, the Count had brought with him a wide array of stinky cheese and cream sauces that he added to each dish he was served!. The custom caught on with locals in the State of New York!.
In fact, the dish became so popular that bison were driven nearly to the brink of extinction!. Surviving herds had adapted and had generally lost their wings!. Unscrupulous Chinese railroad workers operating makeshift restaurants found that virtually any meat could be substituted for bison, if it were bathed in a "hot sauce" (a recipe stolen from freed African slaves) which simulated the buttery/spicy flavor of bison wing flesh!. Early versions allegedly included rat and dog, but eventually chicken became a widely accepted substitute!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Bison, of course, have small vestigial wing nubs!. These wing nubs were normally discarded by the American Indians who, as you know, did not have beer with which to consume them!. White settlers found that "Buffalo wings" could be had in trade for a handful of trinkets and thus were able to weather their first arduous winters with the much needed addition of protein to the diet of celery sticks upon which most pioneers subsisted (in addition to the aforementioned ale)!.
An interesting fact -- the bleu cheese condiment was added for the first time by visiting French dignitaries (namely, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps) in 1886!. Forewarned of the comparatively insipid cuisine of the former English colonies, the Count had brought with him a wide array of stinky cheese and cream sauces that he added to each dish he was served!. The custom caught on with locals in the State of New York!.
In fact, the dish became so popular that bison were driven nearly to the brink of extinction!. Surviving herds had adapted and had generally lost their wings!. Unscrupulous Chinese railroad workers operating makeshift restaurants found that virtually any meat could be substituted for bison, if it were bathed in a "hot sauce" (a recipe stolen from freed African slaves) which simulated the buttery/spicy flavor of bison wing flesh!. Early versions allegedly included rat and dog, but eventually chicken became a widely accepted substitute!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It was in the Anchor Bar in Buffalo they were first made!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Maybe it was wishful think while trying to come with a name!.Www@FoodAQ@Com