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Buffalo wings, chicken wings, or simply wings are chicken wing sections (called flats and rounds), deep fried, and coated in sauce. Although many variations on this sauce exist, the standard Buffalo sauce is composed of only two ingredients: a vinegar-based cayenne hot sauce such as Frank's/Durkee's and margarine or butter. Purists will argue that margarine is required for the right consistency and taste. Most wings are prepared without breading, although this style is not exclusive. Buffalo wings are named after the city of Buffalo, New York, where they originated, and the appellation "buffalo" is now commonly applied to foodstuffs other than wings that are seasoned with the sauce or close variations on it.
In the Southern United States, wings are often called hot wings, and have local variations on how they are cooked.
Buffalo wing sauce can be made with a variable amount of heat/spiciness, with the names of these sauces generally corresponding to the level of heat (for example: suicidal, hot, medium, or mild). For example:
Mild - 1:1 (Hot Sauce:Butter)
Medium - 1.5:1
Hot - 3:1
"Suicidal" - +3:1
In most cases, each contains the same base sauce but varies in the amount of butter and hot sauce used. Wings can also be served dry with the sauce on the side. Buffalo wings are typically served with celery sticks, carrot sticks and blue cheese dip. Some restaurants serve their wings with ranch dressing as an alternative to blue cheese. Despite their spicy reputation, traditional Buffalo wings are made with Frank's RedHot, one of the mildest hot sauces on the market.
Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar located at 1047 Main Street, between North Street and Summer Street in, Buffalo, on October 3, 1964, by Teressa Bellissimo, co-owner of the Anchor Bar with her husband Frank. Upon the unannounced, late-night arrival of her son, Dominic (and several of his friends from college), Teressa needed a fast and easy snack to present to her hungry guests. It was then that she came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings (normally thrown away or reserved for stock) and tossing them in "Frank's Redhot" hot sauce[1].
Although it has been widely accepted that the Anchor Bar was the first place to serve Buffalo Wings, the dish's origin is disputed by both Duff's and Rootie's Pump Room, which both also claim to be the originator of the Buffalo Wing. Unfortunately, Rootie's Pump Room is no longer in business, so there is little likelihood that their claims of having invented them in the 1950s can be confirmed, but the ongoing rivalry between the Anchor Bar and Duff's continues to provide much lively entertainment and sometimes animosity amongst the two establishments as well as those who favor one or the other. Consequently, Rootie's Pump Room still produces "Rootie's" brand blue cheese dip, the most popular dip in the Western New York region.
In Buffalo, locals do not call them "Buffalo Wings", but rather "Chicken Wings" or most often, simply "Wings."
While Buffalo wings in Buffalo are virtually always unbreaded, some national restaurant chains and taverns outside of Buffalo use breaded wings. In properly prepared breaded wings, the breading soaks up the hot sauce, making the flavor more even and the wings slightly less messy to eat. Improperly prepared breaded wings, however, taste like regular fried chicken with sauce drizzled over them, rather than proper wings.
In addition, some restaurants include on their menus a dish called "boneless wings." However, these are usually made of chicken breast meat and are not considered to be true wings. They are called wings because they are tossed in wing sauce like true wings, although without the sauce they bear more resemblance to chicken strips or tenders.
Another popular variant is "Buffalo Lips", which are bite-sized breast nuggets. These are flour-coated, deep-fried, then soaked in a Tabasco-butter sauce.
Some wing restaurants offer wings spiced with other styles of hot spices, such as Cajun or Caribbean-style jerk spices. Another style popular in Buffalo is "from the pit" or simply "pit". These wings are fried, tossed in BBQ sauce, then placed on the grill for a quick charring. Sometimes the BBQ sauce will have hot sauce mixed with it, but this is not needed. Lemon garlic or Greek wings are a non-spicy variant also offered by some restaurants. In addition, you have Boss Sauce which is sweet and spicy hot as opposed to the usual hot and vinegary taste of classic Buffalo-style wings. Also, these wings are breaded and fried as opposed to being just fried. Some restaurants bread their wings and then toss them in a mixture of seasonings, varying from hot to mild, rather than a sauce.
It should be noted that although these variations have come to be associated with "Buffalo Wings", purists contend they are not true "Buffalo Wings", and would never consider them such.
Restaurants that serve Buffalo-style wings also frequently serve other dishes, or "bar food", common to taverns in the snow belt: fried cheese sticks (generally breaded with herbs, and made with mozzarella or provolone cheese), pizza logs (pepperoni, mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce rolled in won ton or egg roll wrappers and deep fried), potato skins covered in cheese and bacon, jalapeño poppers (jalapeño peppers stuffed with cream cheese and deep fried in batter), fried mushrooms, pepperoni balls (fried dough or bread stuffed with pepperoni), french fries, waffle towers in the northeast, and so forth.
Wings have gained such popularity and such a following that there are now even documented "best practice" eating techniques for wings, e.g., the small bone twist and smash technique.[2]
Buffalo wings have nothing to do with the buffalo or American bison. This misconception was played for humor on an early Bartles & Jaymes commercial ("To be honest, I didn't even know that they could fly"), and was later demonstrated when Jessica Simpson told a friend "I don't eat buffalo" when asked why she didn't order them on an episode of Newlyweds. During the 1990s, Domino's Pizza promoted Buffalo Wings by advertising commercials featuring a winged buffalo. The logo of the American franchise restaurant Buffalo Wild Wings, which is known for its Buffalo wings, features a winged buffalo as well.
The web comic Order of the Stick features an episode where the characters go to a restaurant and Belkar insists on having buffalo wings from an actual winged buffalo, unwittingly angering such a creature dining in the next stall. [1]
The Buffalo Wings were also a professional roller hockey team in Buffalo from 1997-1999. An amateur hockey league currently operates as the Buffalo Wings.
Channel 67, an affiliate of the Retro Television Network in Buffalo, has the call letters WNGS, sounded out as wings.
In the 2001 movie Osmosis Jones, Frank is excited to attend a wing festival in Buffalo, New York. The National Buffalo Wing Festival is held every Labor Day weekend in downtown Buffalo, NY, at Dunn Tire Park.
In 2005, Buffalo wings earned notoriety among the sports world when rising-star athlete Sidney Crosby admitted to reporters that he "despised" Buffalo wings, while speaking before a game which matched his Pittsburgh Penguins against the home team Buffalo Sabres. Crosby's remarks sparked an intense rivalry among the teams. Ironically, western Pennsylvania has a thriving culture of Buffalo-style wings, with local interpretations of the dish served in most taverns. A number of regional chains (such as Quaker Steak and Lube) specialize in wings and their attendant cuisine.
Buffalo-style chicken wings are frequently used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia's Wing Bowl.
鸡翅（粤语称为鸡翼）是鸡的翅膀部份，可供食用，尤其是于华人社会中。在西方文化，鸡翅通常只会作熬汤用，后来美国发明水牛城辣鸡翅，英语中「鸡翅」（Chicken wing）一词一般也只是专指水牛城辣鸡翅。
在香港，鸡翅有多种的烹调方法，如油炸、咖喱、卤水、香茅、烧烤等。
日本有一种鸡翅料理叫手羽先唐扬げ（假名：てばさきからあげ，即干炸鸡翅。
布法罗辣鸡翅（Buffalo wings，在美国东北部简称wings）是采用鸡翅的中下部（分flats和drums），不上面粉油炸，再上以辣椒为原料的酱汁及其它调味。虽然各家有各自的酱汁配方，原本的酱汁只有：辣椒酱、白醋、牛油、盐和蒜头五种材料。如果辣汁已经混和上醋，就只需要再加熔化了的牛油。顾名思义，此菜源于纽约州布法罗，而时至今日一切以此种酱汁调味的食品都可称为“buffalo”。
点菜时，一份鸡翅表示十只鸡翅，两份表示二十只，如此类推。也可以叫一桶（50只或以上），辣度亦可按口味增减（例如挑战级“suicidal”、特辣“hot”、中辣“medium”或微辣“mild”）。正统的鸡翅，不论"hot"、"medium"或者"mild"都用一样的汁料。辣度靠增加辣椒或其它香料，反之则增加牛油份量。
历史
布法罗辣鸡翅是在1964年10月3日在布法罗商业街近北大街的船锚吧首度面世的。身为其夫法兰克的合伙人，泰蕾莎•贝利西莫（Teressa Bellissimo），为了招呼她的孩子多米尼克（Dominic）和他的朋友，把鸡翅炸了，配上酱汁，马上受到了欢迎—在此以前，鸡翅是下等货色，不是熬汤就是丢掉。
在布法罗，正宗的店要数Anchor Bar和位于城市边缘、安默斯特薛理丹路（Sheridan Drive）上的Duff's了。在周边地区多数的比萨饼店和路边酒馆都有鸡翅出售。Anchor Bar 每月卖出的鸡翅达36,000 磅。这道菜色在美国其它地方称为布法罗辣鸡翅（Buffalo wings），但在布法罗周围和东北部大部分地区就直呼为鸡翅（chicken wings 或 wings）。
鸡翅深入民心的程度，可以在其食法的发展体现出来。当中较多人采用的有把中翼较小的骨扭出（small bone twist）或者以挤压法去骨 (smash)以增加趣味及使食用更方便。
变奏
正宗的鸡翅是不上粉的，但少数餐厅酒馆卖的是上粉炸的鸡翅。好的带粉鸡翅会把粉浸泡在辣汁中令味道均匀，吃上来较少麻烦。下品的味道就像洒上汁液的普通炸鸡。
有些餐厅会提供其它种类的辣汁，例如卡真式或加勒比海式的牙买加烤肉汁。还有不辣的柠檬蒜泥鸡翅或者「希腊式」鸡翅 (即用柠檬汁、胡椒、牛至为腌料)。在罗彻斯特有一种与布法罗酸辣口味不同的甜辣鸡翅。有些餐厅，例如荒野牛排屋卖的是上了粉而且同时沾了数种酱汁—口味由辣的到不辣的都有—的鸡翅。狂野鸡翅是一家以售卖伴以十四种特色酱汁鸡翅著名的大型特许经营店。
在雪带的酒馆，鸡翅常配上其它菜肴：炸奶酪条 (以莫萨里拉奶酪或波萝伏洛奶酪为原料，通常沾上混和香草的面粉)、盖上奶酪和培根的马铃薯皮、炸酿墨西哥辣椒 (Jalapeño，以奶油奶酪为馅，沾脆浆炸)、炸蘑菇、辣肉肠球 (炸面团或面包酿入肉肠内)、薯条、洋葱圈等等。
流行文化中的辣鸡翅
布法罗辣鸡翅其实与美洲野牛（美国人口中的水牛）无关。而这种与野牛扯上关系的误会因为电视真人秀《Newlyweds》中杰西卡•辛普森在被问到为什么不点鸡翅的时候和朋友说了一句：“我不吃水牛”而出了名。同样在90年代，达美乐披萨用有翼野牛的形象推销鸡翅。
布法罗翅队曾经在1997到1999年期间以职业身份代表布法罗参与滚轴冰球。现在是一支纽约州立大学布法罗分校的业余队伍。
在电影《终极细胞战》，法兰克因为参加布法罗的鸡翅节感到兴奋。
2005年，布法罗鸡翅因属匹兹堡企鹅的，被视为明日之星冰球运动员Sidney Crosby在作客对布法罗军刀的比赛前，向记者承认他看不起布法罗鸡翅，结果引起两队之间的强烈的冲突。 |
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