Date:    Thu, 28 May 1998 21:07:08 -0400
<br>From:    Gregory {Greg} Downing <gd2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
<br>Subject: (Buffalo) chicken wings (Was Re: Food folklore, pt. 1 [very long])
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<br>Further citation appended, from Buffalo NY:
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<br>At 04:16 PM 5/27/98 +0000, jrader[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]m-w.com wrote:
<br>>In the case of _Buffalo wings_, the naming is most likely going to
<br>>follow the development of the dish by an interval of time.  If
<br>>deep-fried chicken wings coated with hot sauce and served with celery
<br>>and blue cheese dressing actually originated in the Buffalo area, the
<br>>probability is that no one would have thought to call the dish
<br>>_Buffalo wings_ until people either inside or outside the region had
<br>>become conscious that the dish was regional--likewise, presumably,
<br>>with other foods named after places (unless the name was a deliberate
<br>>coinage by, say, a particular restaurant).  A Nexis search turned up
<br>>1984 as the earliest date for the collocation, but there is an entry
<br>>for _Buffalo chicken wings_ in John Mariani's _The Dictionary of
<br>>American Food and Drink_ (1983), and Mariani reports that "in 1977
<br>>the city of Buffalo declared July 29 'Chicken Wing Day.' "  Calvin
<br>>Trillin wrote a piece on Buffalo wings that appeared in the Aug. 25,
<br>>1980 _New Yorker_ ("U.S. Journal:  Buffalo, N.Y. An Attempt to
<br>>Compile a Short History of the Buffalo Chicken Wing"); it dissects
<br>>the subject in considerable detail for anyone interested.  Trillin
<br>>makes a fairly convincing case that the dish was popular in greater
<br>>Buffalo, but had not yet diffused much beyond it.  He does not use
<br>>_Buffalo wing_, only _Buffalo chicken wing_.
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<br>Re: "Buffalo wing" vs. "Buffalo chicken wing," here's a cite I happened on
<br>while skimming a listserv archive, where the speaker is in Buffalo and uses
<br>"B c w," for what that's worth. QUOTE FOLLOWS:
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<br>Date:         Wed, 12 Oct 1994 21:37:12 -0400
<br>Sender:       "Finnegans Wake (by James Joyce) Discussion List"
<br>              <FWAKE-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IRLEARN.BITNET>
<br>From:         "PRSPAT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UBVMS Patrick Keleher" <PRSPAT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
<br>Organization: University at Buffalo
<br>Subject:      Re: I'll homeseek you, Luperca (FW444.35-36)
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<br>[...] TWO WEEKS AGO WE MET AN IRISH PUB!  AND DRANK GUINESS [sic] AND ATE
<br>BUFFALO CHICKEN WINGS....
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<br>Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or gd2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu
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