Let's say you're in a bind. You want an excuse to eat 100 buffalo wings but your girlfriend says you're wasting your life and will never be a success.
Solution: You enter and win a wing-eating contest.
And where else would you find a buffalo-wings contest than Buffalo, N.Y., where the immortal bar food was invented in 1964 after a night of binge drinking by a bar owner with a nearly empty larder but a lot of imagination?
The buffalo-wing-stravaganza, in its seventh year, takes place Aug. 30 and 31 at Dunn Tire Park, and features a couple events of great interest to buffalo-wings enthusiasts (I'll admit I'm only occasionally partial to them myself):
- The U.S. Wings Eating Championship. Possibly the grossest-looking of all competitive-eating challenges.
- The National Wing Sauce-Off
- A Buffalo Wing Hall of "Flame" Induction
- The 0.5 Chicken-Wing Run, which takes "several minutes to three-quarters of an hour"
- The Miss Buffalo Wing Pageant
- An Elvis impersonator
- Chris Burke, the guy who played Corky on "Life Goes On"
- Chefs like Kevin Roberts (finalist on "The Next Food Network Star"), and Drew "Wing King" Cerza (founder of the National Buffalo Wing Festival).
Anyway, that's just an idea in case you were out of ideas for what to do this weekend.
Now why doesn't Idaho hold a potato-skin contest?
