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Eat Buffalo Wings More Efficiently During The Super Bowl
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 2, 2014
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Across the country, Americans will be getting their hands sticky by digging into some 1.25 billion buffalo wings today. The folks at Major League Eating have offered their totally unscientific thoughts on how to eat them in order to save precious seconds so you can have more time to drink beer and boo at the TV.
The method for drumstick "wings" is the "typewriter"—basically gnaw the meat in a circular motion around the bone to get it off. For actual wings, pull the bones apart like a "wishbone." Here's video of MLE head George Shea explaining and competitive Crazy Legs Conti demonstrating (Crazy Legs also gives names to other ways to eat the wings):
It's also apparently the 50th anniversary of wings as we know them—the Post reports, "This year marks the 50th anniversary of when Teressa Bellissimo decided to fry up and serve some discarded wings — instead of putting them in a soup — late one Friday night at Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY. She supposedly fried the wings in butter, coated them with hot sauce and served them with a side of blue cheese dressing and celery — and a legend was born."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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