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Special to AOL from our intern Jean Morrow
To the rest of the world, they may be "Buffalo wings," but to Buffalonians, they're "chicken wings." 
They are always served with blue cheese dressing on the side, and no one orders just plain old pizza in
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The barbecue chicken wing is another story. For barbecue chicken wings, I always head to LaNova Pizzeria and Wing Company on the West Side of Buffalo. LaNova has perfected the barbecue chicken wing, served dripping with dark brown sauce. They are as messy as they are delicious.
Fans crave the chicken wings from LaNova and the Anchor Bar so badly that both restaurants offer overnight delivery to anywhere in the country. (You can order bottled chicken wing sauce too!) If you are going to splurge for the overnight delivery, there is one occasion for which wings are a necessity -- Sunday football games. When crowded around a television set on a freezing cold Sunday in
My friend's family business, Will Poultry, bottled and developed the official recipe for the Anchor Bar's Sauce about five years ago. She let me in on a little secret -- until recently, there was no branded recipe for chicken wing sauce. The Anchor Bar, and other restaurants, used their own version of an original, unofficial recipe: Frank's Red Hot Sauce and liquid butter.
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8-08-2007 @7:09AM nancy said... Drew...Millersport had Rooties! Very Good! Then Duffs on Sheridan Dr.! Excellent...We miss them all here in NC
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8-08-2007 @9:03AM Jodi Schwartz said... Great to see this article. I grew up in Buffalo/Williamsville ordering pizza and wings on a Friday night. And yes, it was Bocce pizza of course! But I will have to say, I'm surprised no one mentioned DUFF"S wings. I think they're the BEST. They also ship overnight, and they sell their sauce by the quart. Thank goodness I've found great wings in Brooklyn...at a place called Gravy. Best eating to all!
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8-08-2007 @12:23PM Debbie said... Why hasn't anyone mentioned Bob and John's La Hacienda on Hertel Ave. for pizza? If you order wings twice cooked they come out nice and crispy. Buffalo has really good bread too. I miss Wegman's. Bflo. has so many little great gourmet restaurants too.
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8-10-2007 @12:31AM Traci said... I live in Buffalo and there is nothing more delicious than going out on Saturday night and ordering a bucket of medium wings, extra blue cheese, extra celery and carrots and a corona with a lime!!!!! YUMMY! When Bobby Flay met our own Drew Cerza at the Anchor Bar for Bobby Flays Chicken Wing throwdown, our friend Drew (known as the KING of WINGS!) met his challenge and got nervous that the judges would pick Bobby's wings over Drew's. But he was WRONG. Drew Cerza WON the contest hands down and the Buffalo Chicken Wings from the Anchor Bar are voted THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY!!!! Way to go BUFFALO!!!!!!
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8-11-2007 @2:47PM Stinky said... It's BOF-LO or BUF-LO, not BUF-A-LO. I'm from RAH-CHES-TUR, so I know. Here they are called "wings".
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8-14-2007 @5:01PM esbee said... i grew up in Rochester, NY, which is about an hour outside Buffalo. i now live in south Florida, and let me say, people outside western NY do NOT know what a proper chicken wing is. i went back to NY for a visit and within the first hour of landing i had a wing in hand (and i am one of the few who prefer the wings, not the drummies). let me urge those who think they know what they are doing to STOP selling bunk wings. there is only one place for them. would i go to LA for a Philly Cheesesteak? i think not.
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8-15-2007 @5:00PM Chris said... People who aren't from Buffalo aren't very good judges of good wings, I've come to discover. I lived in Buffalo until about 2 years ago and now live in Florida and I've only found 1 place that has wings that are any good - the owner happens to be from Buffalo. On a side note, the ultimate place for wings is Duff's, just outside of Buffalo.
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8-19-2007 @11:33AM Scott said... I live in Buffalo and while I like the LaNova wings I think the BBQ Wings from Imperial Pizzaare much better. The Anchor's wings are good but every bar in Buffalo, and there are a lot of them, has a variation on them and they are all worth eating.
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8-20-2007 @11:46AM Dbridle said... I had never been to Buffalo before I met my wife. I have lived in Florida my whole life and I thought the wings down here were good until I went to Buffalo. Its true about every Friday night having wings and pizza and my favorite food is wings then pizza so what better place to be than Buffalo. The first wings I had in Buffalo was Anchor Bar and ever since then nothing compares, although Townline pizza has really good wings and pizza but I like Anchor Bar better. Duff's is pretty good also, and I really miss Mighty Taco, the first time I had Mighty I didnt like it but it grew on me after that and now I miss it. Right now me and my wife live in Florida but we can't wait to move back to Buffalo to have good pizza and wings.
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8-20-2007 @2:26PM Jan Schilling said... I too was born and rained in Buffalo...worked at Buffalo General Hospital as an RN, right around the corner from Frank and Teresa's Anchor Bar. There have been many people who tried to duplicate or make up their own wings recipes, but no one has ever accomplished what the Anchor Bar made famous. You're right Jean, it's pizza and wings! The only other great place for pizza in Buffalo, is Santora's...yum...mouth watering for old eating memories! If you'll notice my email address...it's bflogal..."you can take the girl out of Buffalo, but you can;t take Buffalo out of the girl!
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8-20-2007 @4:00PM Ruth Friol said... Buffalo wings are great at La Nova, especially the BBQ wings, but I must say that the blue cheese that accompanies the wings is GROSS. A relative worked at La Nova and said that they add mayo to the blue cheese to make it creamy. Well I hate mayo and I can't stand the taste of their blue cheese for that reason!
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8-21-2007 @12:51AM TJ said... Weither or not they were invented in Buffalo NY (my hometown) chicken wings from the Anchor Bar are by far the best i've tasted...Many a pizzeria comes close but there is something different about Anchor.. I love the fact that they are known world wide as "Buffalo Wings" when we here call them modestly.. "chicken wings" and the Friday night "pizza and wings" dinner is soo true. Its rare to order just one. And I agree about LaNova having the greatest BBQ wings...I don't care much for BBQ but I love LaNovas...great article!!!
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8-22-2007 @12:23PM A LOCAL GIRL said... anchor bar did NOT start wings. they stole the recipe for the sauce and the idea of frying wings was around loooooong before they jumped on board :(
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8-23-2007 @12:24AM Ed said... CHICKEN wings, people. I love Buffalo as much as the next guy, but they are chicken wings. And if you really want a taste treat, large meaty wings, try DUFFS. Multiple choices on the sauce for those with different tastes (I prefer mine hot and sometimes a nice dry cajun) and a cold beer. A great way to enjoy a night out
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8-25-2007 @1:01AM Karen said... I have to say that I miss wings!!! Now living in NC they sure don't know how to make them! They sure aren't crispy, more on the lines of boiled chicken! YUCK! I make my own BUFFALO STYLE!
Karen
PS I hate it whe they call them buffalo wings too.. cause they don't come close to what we have back home!
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8-26-2007 @12:35PM Samm said... Anyone remember Bailo's for beef on weck? Or Blendinger's restaurant for huge cheesburgers? This was back in the mid-60's......
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8-26-2007 @1:56PM Cathy said... Being Very poor while a child, I cannot tolerate 3 things. One is chicken wings, any which way you wanna cook 'em. Two is fried balona. 3 is catfish, that we caught from the creek in front of our house.
Now gimme some Blue crabs or prime rib, or shrimp, I will be on top of the world!
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8-26-2007 @4:20PM Peter said... anybody heard of BW3's? Buffalo Wild Wings? Great chain of restaurants; great music system, T.V.'s and good wings, too. Although... the spiciest, blazin' wings, are really too hot for human consumption. They'll actually give you a stomachache.
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8-30-2007 @11:37AM Lynn & Doug said... My Husband & I were both born in Buffalo, he moved to the L.A. area in '73 and I moved to L.A. in '99. He drove cab while in college at UB and sometimes he'd pick up waitresses who worked at the Anchor Bar and they would tip him with chicken wings! We still visit family & friends and Pizza & Wings are the ultimate Buffalo comfort food.
Now if we could only get Buffalo's other great food sensation, "Beef on Weck" on the map...
(Bocce's Pizza Rocks!)
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8-30-2007 @6:28AM FiFi-le-pappion said... Having been employed for an airline in Philadelphia, Pa, after reading the history about the Anchor Bar, I can attest that at different times, and without management knowledge, we would have the flight attendants bring us wings from Buffalo if they were flying there on there "leg" and maybe a "wick on a weck" which was a roast beef sandwich piled high on a special roll that was only available in the city of Buffalo. God I miss those days, but my waistline doesn't because when these "food requests" went out, so did the the end of my belt!!
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