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A Brief History of the Chicken Wing
Abdominal and The Obliques

Nine years, three months, and eight days,

before I was born, something happened that would change the way

my life turned out.

Let me tell you about

exactly what I mean:

The scene, New York, state, Buffalo, to be exact,

1047 Main Street, between Best and North at

this bar called the Anchor,

owned by Theresa and Frank Bel-

lissimo and their son,

Dominic, who was working on that one

fateful night,

when his friends came in for a late bite.

But that late in the kitchen,

oo-oo-ooh slim were the pickings,

all that was left were some chicken

wings, wings, scrumptious wings, chicken wings…


Chicken wings,

one of my favourite things,

deep fried and then tossed

in a bowl of hot sauce,

with some butter plus vinegar and a little dash of cayenne,

taste so delicious they clearly weren’t meant for flying,

o-oh chicken wings.


Well Theresa retreated

back to the kitchen to see what

she could do with the depleted and reduced stock,

because soup stock

or trash the two op-

tions for wings back in the day,


but she said, “Mmm, hey, hey, hey,

what’s stopping me

from dropping these

in some hot grease,

then tossing the pieces

in hot sauce,

and then serving the lot

with blue cheese dip and stalks

of celery? Nothing that’s what.”

So she did it and guess what?

All around, baby thumbs up,

so the recipe it stuck,

and spread around

the world so profoundly

effecting my life,

especially the nights

when wings sell for half price,

drinking beers watching hockey fights.

Chilling with my friends, just kicking back,

stress slips away eating chicken fat.

Suicide on the menu then I’m picking that,

full meal or finger-licking snack.

Regardless baby wings tasting great,

so let’s take this time to commemorate

October 30th 1964 the date

wings first appeared so raise one up let’s celebrate…


[Repeat chorus 2X. And repeat final “o-oh chicken wings” 4X to finish.]


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