Not that I've ever considered munching on penguins, but I've never passed on the opportunity to watch them cavort in a zoo. They are so cute. I've also never ever passed on chicken wings! I once worked a game in Buffalo and trudged blocks through deep snow drifts to eat at the Anchor Bar. That was easy though. It's where the whole phenomenon began in 1964 and the wings there are especially huge and tasty.
Your intrepid VFH team never passes on the chance to munch on wings. Like a string of oases in a desert, we count on favored gin mills with their personal wing concoctions to quell our hunger. As we travel through familiar landscapes our conversation usually is dotted with talk about wings and which place to grace with our wide grins and empty stomachs. We often talk about seriously taking notes on the wings and selection of beers available and cobbling together some sort of guide book. Sometimes we quibble over what is the best wing available, but we never pass on the chance to eat them. I think though, no matter where we eat them, no matter the sauce employed, we will always come back to the Tiger's Tale, near Princeton, NJ (and named after the University's mascot). It has a vast bar with lots of microbrews and features typical pub grub, but they prepare their cajun wings on a grill behind the bar! Appropriately charred, meaty with just enough spice, these are our favorite.
But of course...we've never been to the Anchor.
We are not able to travel to Buffalo anytime soon to weigh in on this contest, but I just recently read about an event there during Labor Day Weekend. It's called the National Buffalo Wing Festival. The two day event has been held since 2002 and features wings from restaurants from around the country, a .5 mile Running of the Chickens, a wing eating contest, as well as a Miss Buffalo Wing beauty pageant. Janet wants to enter the beauty contest, after she wins the race and the eating contest. It sounds like we should plan this event next year. (http://www.buffalowing.com/)
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