The National Buffalo Wing Festival returns to Highmark Stadium (where the Buffalo Bills play their games) on Sept. 3rd and 4th 2022. Now in its 21st year, celebrating its 20th festival, Wing Fest has over the past 10 years averaged 50,000+ attendees that have been tracked from all 50 states and 44 different countries, featuring 25 local, regional, national and international eateries serving more than 100 styles of chicken wings. About 10 tons of chicken wings will be consumed this weekend!
Other activities include live music, a baby wing pageant, amateur and XXXHot chicken wing eating competition, celebrity influencer sauce-off competition, bobbing for wings, and much more!
Are you a fan of chicken wings?
I love chicken wings—but, let’s face it, the wing is just a conveyer of sauce and ranch or blue cheese dressing. John usually makes a mound of them (using the air fryer) for the Super Bowl. He usually mixes a mild wing sauce with one that’s on the hot end of the scale to get a good balance of sweet and heat. I usually make Buffalo Chicken Dip in the slow-cooker to take to potlucks: shredded cooked chicken, equal amounts of hot sauce (I like Frank’s) and ranch or blue cheese dressing, cream cheese, and grated cheddar cheese. Mix together and heat on low for an hour. Serve with crackers. Yum!
Deb, sounds delicious! Art Scott bakes his chicken wings. Fortunately, we have about a dozen excellent pizza & wing restaurants within driving distance to provide an incredible variety for every taste!
Maybe it’s just my laziness, but I find wings to be too labor intensive, not to mention horrendously messy. I’ll take the other parts.
Michael, we just had pizza and wings from a take-out place 10 minutes away. Yummy, indeed!
They are a hell of a lot better than chicken toes.
Jerry, it’s hard to believe chicken wings were considered “waste” and discarded. Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, by Teresa Bellissimo, who owned the bar with husband Frank in 1964. At the time, chicken wings were inexpensive and undesirable, primarily being used for stock or soup…or discarded. Upon the unannounced, late-night arrival of their son, Dominic, with several of his friends from college, Teresa needed a fast and easy snack to present to her 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 cayenne hot sauce. The rest is History!
Like anything else, they gotta be done Right!
Dan, when I took Art Scott to the ironic Anchor Bar, where Buffalo Chicken Wings were “invented,” Art ordered the ultra-hot “Suicide Wings”…and survived!
Deb’s sure sounds good.
Patti, every food Deb makes always sounds good!
As I’m sure I said last year and on other occasions, so NOT a fan of chicken wings. Jackie likes them, and whenever we get a half or whole chicken, she gets mine.
Will you be going?
Not really …
But my wife makes some nice chicken breast from chicken we get here in the village – free range. We also buy eggs from the lady.
We just gave some pumpkin skin (is that the correct word?) to the lady and she also gets greeneries from the neighbours.
Where we lived before there was a family which would raise roosters and sell them. They are used for a kind of goulash – their meat is too hard for grilling …
Funny story:
My brother in law visited us here in Hungary a few years ago and we went out for lunch they had a special dish for the day and it looked good on the menu – something like rooster goulash, so he ordered it.
When it arrived he was rather astonished to see it and asked my wife. So she looked it up and found that it was:
Rooster testicles goulash …
Well, the dog did enjoy it.
Wolf, I’m sure the dog enjoyed it far more than the rooster did.
Wolf, I’ll pass on rooster goulash!
I like them with barbecue glaze rather than hot sauce. And I hate them with ranch or blue cheese dressing, yuch. Rarely eat them since I don’t cook and they are a bit pricey ordering out since I usually eat about 20 of them. Not a lot of meat there.
Steve, not long ago chicken wings cost about 10 cents per wing. Then the Pandemic hit and Inflation kicked in. Now, chicken wings–BBQ or hot sauce–cost over a $1.00 a wing!
Nope, but I was vegetarian before they had made their full way out of Buffalo. I did eat wings with nonchalance before that, even down to KFC (Popeye’s was always slightly better) and more often as a child when my mother would cook a whole bird. Do occasionally eat Buffalo-spiced tofu items. Enjoy the food and spectacle!
Todd, I like chicken wings…and tofu!