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bread and pickles, the bread

Two slices of plain white sandwich bread with pickle chips on top, and the hot chicken laid over both. The bread catches the cayenne paste and the fat coming off the bird; the pickles cut it.

a pitcher, pitcher of beer, chimaek

Draught beer sold by the jug for a table to share. It is the other half of a wing order almost everywhere wings are sold, and in two traditions it is named into the food: Hooters built its concept on wings and beer, and…

beef on kummelweck

Rare roast beef, hand-carved thin, on a kummelweck roll topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds.

boneless, wyngz, boneless chicken wings

Small pieces of skinless, boneless chicken breast coated in flour and spices, then fried or baked, like a chicken nugget, and tossed in or served with the same sauces as a Buffalo wing.

buffalo chicken pie, wing pizza

A pizza sauced with cayenne-and-butter wing sauce instead of tomato, topped with chicken and mozzarella, and finished with blue cheese or ranch.

chicken 'n' waffles

Fried chicken on a waffle, eaten with butter and syrup as a waffle would be, and often with hot sauce.

Utica riggies, riggies

An Italian-American pasta dish from the Utica–Rome area of New York: chicken, rigatoni, and hot or sweet peppers in a spicy cream-and-tomato sauce. Variations are many; the peppers and the rigatoni are the constants.

wings over fried rice, wings and rice

Whole fried chicken wings served over egg fried rice with mumbo sauce, sold from Chinese-American carryouts across the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.

trash plate, plate, Rochester plate

Hot dog or hamburger meat and a meat hot sauce piled on a bed of side dishes — usually macaroni salad and home fries — with onions and mustard, and buttered bread alongside.

a basket of wings, wing order, the plate

The unit a bar sells wings in: a count of pieces in a basket or on a plate, lined with paper, with celery and carrots, a cup of blue cheese or ranch, and usually fries.

buffalo chicken wing dip, wing dip

Shredded chicken, cream cheese, cayenne-and-butter wing sauce and a dairy dressing, baked until it bubbles and eaten hot with chips, celery or bread.

celery, veggie sticks, the vegetables

Cut celery, usually with carrot sticks, served cold beside hot wings with a cup of blue cheese or ranch that both the vegetables and the wings go into.

fries, chips

Potatoes cut into even batonnet or julienne strips, dried, and deep-fried.

jojos, jo jos, potato jojos

A potato wedge that has been breaded, pressure-fried and spiced — not a bare wedge, and not a fry. The pressure fryer is a pressure cooker filled with hot oil, so the potato cooks fast and hard while keeping its water.

mozz sticks, fried mozzarella

Elongated pieces of mozzarella coated in breadcrumbs or batter and fried, served as an hors d'oeuvre with marinara. On a wing menu they are the thing a table orders when half of it does not want wings.

mambo fries, fries with mumbo

French fries under mumbo sauce, from a Washington, D.C. carryout.

chicken-mu, danmuji, 치킨무

Cubed pickled daikon in a sweet-sour brine, served cold in a small tub beside Korean fried chicken.

pizza egg rolls

Mozzarella, and often pepperoni, rolled in an egg-roll wrapper and deep-fried, served with marinara to dip.