November 21 - Shuffle Off To Buffalo. Or Quit the Spirit!!!

This is the first time we've decided to fly Southwest Air non-stop out of Buffalo. We usually go from Detroit but Spirit Airlines has cancelled its mid-day non-stop departures from Fort Lauderdale which would mean not only waiting around all day on December 6 but their 4:30 pm departure puts us into Detroit way too late. Buffalo is approximately the same distance from London and we got a terrific hotel/parking deal at the Millenium Hotel in Cheektawaga, near the airport. For about $90 we got a room and 15 days of free parking. In Detroit, the parking alone would be $240 in the "Big Blue" section of the airport terminal.

We met up with the guys (John, Pete, and Chris) in John's room at 2:30pm. The other ladies were all at the adjacent Galleria mall, so we left a note and adjourned to the bar to wait for them. The hotel was excellent, and I would reccommend it to anyone. The restaurants, being Saturday, were packed so we ate right at the hotel. I had the chicken wings. What else, after all, Buffalo wings were invented here. Click here to read at Wikipedia.
From Wikipedia:

History

There are four different legends about how the Buffalo wings came to be.^[5][6]

• One story is that Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar, located at 1047 Main Street (between North Street and Best Street) in Buffalo, New York, United States on October 3, 1964, by Teressa Belissimo, co-owner of the Anchor Bar with her husband Frank. Upon the unannounced, late-night arrival of their son, Dominic, with 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 cayenne hot sauce.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]} While the wings were deep frying, Teressa decided to serve left over celery sticks with blue cheese to her son and his friends to tide them over.

• A second version, as told by Dominic Bellisimo (Frank and Teressa's son) to The New Yorker reporter Calvin Trillin in 1980, stated: "It was Friday night in the bar and since people were buying a lot of drinks he wanted to do something nice for them at midnight when the mostly Catholic patrons would be able to eat meat again." He stated that it was his mother, Teressa, who came up with the idea of chicken wings.^[5][6]

Bowl of wings from Duff's

• The third version of the origin involved a mis-delivery of wings instead of backs and necks for making the bar's spaghetti sauce. Faced with this unexpected resource, Frank Bellisimo says that he asked Teressa to do something with them.^[5][6]

• The fourth version has nothing to do with the Bellisimos or the Anchor Bar. Calvin Trillin stated in his 1980 New Yorker article that a man named John Young also claimed credit for serving chicken wings in a special "mambo sauce". Chicken wings in mambo sauce became the specialty at his Buffalo restaurant in the mid-1960s. Young had registered the name of his restaurant, John Young's Wings 'n Things, at the county courthouse before leaving Buffalo in 1970.^[5][6][11]

Buffalo wings are used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia's Wing Bowl and at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.