What is it with the chicken wings?
Posted By Kathleen David on February 7, 2016
When did Buffalo Wings become the staple food of the Super Bowl? Did I miss a memo?
And yes I did hear about the conspiracy to sell chicken wings because they were just scraps until this phenomenon.
I have had Buffalo Wings in Buffalo at several establishments that claim to have done it first. Some were good and some were OK.
For me the wing has to be well done to be enjoyable. Half cooked wings cause my gag reflex to come up.
Also this is Super Bowl L even though they have taken to calling it Super Bowl 50 and I can see why. Go ahead say Super Bowl L aloud and you will see why marketing is avoiding it. And I bet it is what a lot of people in the restaurant business are calling today. I know one place that has specific pick up times for your wings and the like as they do a lot business today.
I think I will be happy for either team winning. I would like to see Payton get a ring so Eli stops making a show of his two at family dinners. I would like to see Cam get a ring because he has managed to get his act together and is a really good quarterback. Yes he is brash and his team’s end zone celebrations are over the top but you can tell it is in a sense of fun and this team is having fun this year.
So we get ready for the big game this year. We watch the commercials and the next day the commercials deemed a success will mean revenue for the agency that created them. That we are having teasers for ads just blows my mind. I have noticed that this year we are not seeing a lot of the commercials before hand like we have in the past couple of years.
I am grateful that the Super Bowl Hype is soon over and we get down to the game.
Everybody else got the memo. Even the local Korean BBQ was advertising wing specials for delivery on the 7th.
Rant: Never liked chicken wings. I don’t like the bones. I don’t eat chicken legs and I don’t eat ribs. If I cannot eat it I don’t want it in my plate. Boneless, sure, but not otherwise. I told this to a friend and he said: “but it is all about the sauce”. Then give me a spoon and a bowl of sauce. I don’t like the sauce anyway because I don’t like spicy food. Spicy is not a flavor, it is a feeling. An uncomfortable feeling. It is like a macho test. “Look how spicy I can eat my food, I am better than you” Rant over.
My favorite Superbowl snack used to be Tostitos “scoops” with the mild salsa. A couple of years ago I developed an allergy to corn so I cannot eat that anymore. We had a bowls of fruit salad instead.