Buffalo Wings

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Poll question: Buffalo Wings

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I like my "Beu Cheese" with an "L" in it though

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Fixed it right before I saw your post

Must be bleu cheese under the "l" key!

[RagingInMiami]

2. blue cheese and ranch are for wimps

[mondo joe]

3. If there's no bleu cheese they're not buffalo wings

And for the wings there is only one legitimate sauce: tabasco, butter and a littlle dab of honey.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. The pizza place only packed ranch tonight.

:(

[mondo joe]

10. They're bad people. But you can only eat what you have!

[Mistress Quickly]

9. ** drooling **

I am such a wing addict!

[driver8]

24. Me too -- my mouth is watering right now!! n/t

[driver8]

25. Honey??

I don't recall anyone using honey to make wings in Buffalo. Are you sure about that? I don't recall any sweet taste at all.

[baldguy]

39. Frank & Theresa didn't use any honey

[Spider Jerusalem]

You left off the "suck" option.

The thought of those vile things makes me feel ill.

[mwdem]

4. It ain't Buffalo without Bleu Cheese!

I was there in the early 80's, so I know my wings!

[mondo joe]

7. Ooh what was your fave wing place?

[mwdem]

11. Was it Barrachellis, or something like that?

Sound familiar? It's been awhile for me. Like about 24 years.

[mondo joe]

12. Haven't lived there since I was 19 --- 21 years ago - so I don't really

Haven't lived there since I was 19 --- 21 years ago - so I don't really know either.

But your suggestion was an Italian name, so it's probablly right!

[mwdem]

14. We were there in the early 80's!

My son was conceived there, and he's 23 now. I rememeber Baracielle's , or something like that, but they claimed to be the originals! We were only there for about 4 months, but we got a real feel for the region. We stayed in West Seneca, if that means anything.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Did you eat wings when you were pregnant?

I made that mistake once. It was the only time I got sick during my second pregnancy.

[mwdem]

19. I got pregnant there,

I craved jalapenos, and prime rib afterwords. (I got pregnant on my 30th birthday in Buffalo!)

[driver8]

23. I went to college near Buffalo...

Bleu cheese and ONLY Bleu cheese should be served with Buffalo Wings. I live out in Los Angeles now and a few years ago I went to this bar where the Buffalo Bills fans got together to watch the game. I was one of the first people there and ordered some wings. After my wings arrived, the server went over to the bar and started scooping out some ranch dressing. He started walking towards me with it and I asked him, "Is that for me?" He said it was. I told him, "Let me give you some advice. In twenty minutes there are going to be about one hundred Bills fans in here. They will not be happy if you serve them ranch dressing instead of bleu cheese."

Anyone in Los Angeles if you want great wings, the Hot Wings Cafe in either Glendale or Pasadena serves excellent wings.

[July]

35. Hey, I think my cousin goes to that bar!

She and her husband, Buffalo natives like me, go to watch the Bills.

You are so right about blue cheese with chicken wings (as they are known in Buffalo).

How are those wings? I've tried them everywhere, and I'm still trying to understand why every pizza place in Buffalo can make good wings, while no bar/restaurant/pizza parlor anywhere else can reproduce the real thing (although they can create some very tasty wings). There must be some bar somewhere that can do it.

[mondo joe]

36. I think the reason no one outside of Buffalo gets it wrong...

I think the reason no one outside of Buffalo gets it wrong is that they don't understand how SIMPLE it is.

The original recipe just doesn't seem elaborate enough so they have to try to do something SPECIAL. And in doing so they get it wrong wrong wrong.

[driver8]

40. The wings at that bar weren't bad...

but they didn't compare to the wings in Buffalo. I'm not sure where the Bills fan club meets now as I wised up and got the NFL ticket. However, it is not as much fun watching the game by myself as it is watching it with a couple of hundred Bills fans! They seem to move the location every year and I have no idea where they meet now.

Tell your cousin that if she and her husband want good wings that they should go the the "Hot Wings Cafe". There is one in Pasadena, one in Glendale, and I think there is one on Melrose but I am not sure about that one.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Both ranch and bleu cheese

[glarius]

13. I've had them at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo where they originated

My husband and I and friends have had Buffalo wings for many years, where they originated at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo...The owner's wife created the recipe for them years ago when she had customers come in to her bar and she was low on food...She put together the whole thing with the celery sticks and blue cheese dip etc...They were an immediate hit and they have been making them ever since....I live in southern Ontario, not too far from the New York state border...Mmmmm, I could go for a feed of them right now!

[mondo joe]

15. Only someone in Buffalo could come up with them.

Take the most fatty part of the entire chicken -

Deep fry it -

Cover it in butter -

Dip it in bleu cheese dressing.

Nowhere but Buffalo, I tell you.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. It used to be that you could buy a bag of chicken wings for

1/2 the cost of any other part of the bird. It might not be the healthiest option, but it was damn practical of those Buffalonians!

[glarius]

21. That's not Buffalo wings you're describing

Poor you....having to eat such a mess....My heart cries for you!:cry:

[mondo joe]

22. Of course that's Buffalo Wings!

They're deep fried wings, in a sauce of butter, tobasco and a bit of honey, served with bleu.

They're the only buffalo wings.

[glarius]

30. Not the original Buffalo wings.....no butter!...they're not fatty!!!!! nt

[mondo joe]

31. Yes yes, the original buffalo wings

And the wings themselves of course are fatty owing the greatest surface amount of chicken skin.

http://www.cookinagcache.com/appetizr/theoriginalanchorbarrestaurantshotwingrecipe.shtml

[glarius]

33. As I said I've eaten them at the original bar in Buffalo for years and

they are NOT FATTY!

[mondo joe]

34. I grew up eating them, and the fact is...

I grew up eating them, and the fact is wings are the most fatty part of the chicken, they are deep fried, the sauce is butter based, and the bleu certainly is high fat.

They may not taste fatty, but there is a lot of fat going on there.

[driver8]

26. Cover it in butter??

What are you talking about? Covered in butter? They don't serve them covered in butter in Buffalo.

[mondo joe]

29. The sauce is tabasco, butter and a tiny bit of honey to help it stick

That's the real thing.

Some places do some sort of barbecue sauce.

[July]

37. Except the honey, that's pretty much the recipe my friends and family use.

Deep fry the wings, roll them around in a sauce of melted butter and Frank's Hot Sauce (amount of hot sauce determines heat of the wings), serve with Marie's Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing and celery strips.

That's this South Buffalo girl's recipe.

[da_chimperor]

17. I like them with hot sauce.

:)

[ThorsHammer]

20. Plain; but ranch with the very hottest ones

[iconoclastic cat]

27. The fake veggie ones are good, too.

[GaYellowDawg]

28. HONEY MUSTARD

Beats the daylights out of bleu cheese, ranch, anything. Try it.

[Nicole]

32. BBQ sauce

is my choice.

[derby378]

38. ginbarn sez...

Bleu cheese and naked. Especially if they come from Hooters.