Wing CountryStories (6)
The origin fight, the ranch war, the long ones.
Essays (5)
Boneless is not a wingBerkheimer v. REKM, The boneless wing case
On 25 July 2024 the Supreme Court of Ohio held, 4 to 3, that a diner who swallowed a chicken bone from a boneless wing could not take his negligence claim to a jury, because he could reasonably have guarded against it.
The flat and the drumFlats against drums
A chicken wing has three joints and yields two pieces a kitchen will sell: the drumette, which is the humerus with the meat pushed to one end, and the flat, which is the two-boned middle section carrying most of the…
The origin fightWho invented the Buffalo wing
Two Buffalo kitchens claim the wing, and neither claim rests on a document. The Anchor Bar dates the dish to the night of 4 March 1964 and tells the story three different ways.
The price of a wingWhat a wing costs
In 1964 the wing was the cheapest thing on the bird, which is the premise every origin story rests on.
Ranch against blue cheeseThe dip argument
Buffalo sends out blue cheese. America buys ranch. Blue cheese reached the wing plate on the first night of the Anchor Bar story, off the antipasto tray, and it is still the house cup along the city's wing trail.
Where it came from (1)
Free to useSources and licences, What this project stands on
Every map, price, coordinate and recipe on this site comes from somewhere a reader can go and check.