October 3, 1964 -- The Buffalo Chicken Wing, is offically 50 years old, today! They were created at the now famous Anchor Bar in Bufalo, New York, where the story goes that owner Teressa Bellissimo first made the delicious wings as the result of an accident! The bar was shipped chicken wings instead of necks, which the bar traditionally used in their spaghetti sauce. So her husband Frank asked her to make up some sort of appetizer out of the wings. Teressa cut each wing in half to produce a “drumstick” and a “flat,” that she deep-fried them without breading and covered them in a hot sauce, and that she served them with celery (from the house antipasto) and blue cheese salad dressing. They also both reported that they became popular within weeks throughout the city, where they were (and are still) simply called “wings” or “chicken wings.”
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:48:42 +0000