{"id":989419,"date":"2019-05-10T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=989419"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:20:48","slug":"why-are-buffalo-wings-called-buffalo-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/why-are-buffalo-wings-called-buffalo-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Buffalo Wings Called Buffalo Wings?"},"content":{"rendered":"Ah, the rare winged buffalo. Native to those elusive parts of the range where unicorns coalesce. For as few people who've spotted them, it's a mystery how we manage to devour so many of their delicious wings<\/a>.\r\n\r\nI mean, 1.35 billion during Super Bowl festivities alone.\r\n\r\nAlright\u2026 you got us. Why are buffalo wings called buffalo wings? Turns out, buffalo wings have nothing to do with the more accurately named bison who roam around South Dakota looking like they're wearing big furry hats and neck scarves.\r\n

Going Beyond Buffalo, New York<\/h3>\r\nIf you guessed they're named after Buffalo, New York, you wouldn't be wrong. Rumor has it an eating establishment called Anchor Bar in Buffalo invented them\u2014or rather, their owner Teressa Bellissimodid\u2014after being accidentally shipped wings instead of other chicken parts and, as such, the now-famous snack was invented out of a desire not to waste perfectly good poultry. Food born from necessity is a common theme in these 14 dishes with surprising origins<\/a>.\r\n\r\nA reported spin-off of this story is that Teressa's son, Dominic, in true college-kid-visiting-home form, asked his mom if she'd whip up a snack for him and his friends late one night. After all, isn't this when all the good recipes come about? The most likely exhausted mom probably suggested the kids make themselves some PB&Js, but my guess is they showered her with compliments about her exceptional cooking skills, and she folded, throwing some unbreaded chicken wings into a deep fryer and then dousing them in hot sauce before retiring to bed to watch HGTV, or whatever the equivalent to that was in 1964.\r\n

Unfortunately, there is no immediate family member of Teressa Bellissimo alive today to verify these stories, so a bit of mystery still shrouds the elusive buffalo wing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t

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