What makes a wing a “buffalo” wing?
Buffalo chicken wings are a popular bar snack and game day delight that are on practically every bar menu. Buffalo chicken wings are unbreaded chicken drums and flats. They are deep fried and then tossed and coated in Frank’s RedHot, a spicy cayenne-based hot sauce. One is that Buffalo wings were first prepared in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, by Teressa Bellissimo, who owned the bar with her husband Frank. At the time, chicken wings were inexpensive and undesirable, and normally thrown away or reserved for stock or soup.Deep-fried chicken wings have long been a staple of Southern cooking. But the concept of cooking wings in peppery hot sauce was born in 1964 at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, when co-owner Teressa Bellissimo cooked leftover wings in hot sauce as a late-night snack for her son and his friends.