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Isn’t it every human being’s innate wish to be able to make a difference in this world? I mean, we all do it whether it be through our work, our children, or our philanthropy but what if we could make a difference by eating chicken wings? Statistics show that over 100,000 restaurants and small business who temporarily shut down during the past ten...
Read More“I've learned that people will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they’ll never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou As the year 2020 comes to an end, 89% of all stories and news and those annoying “Top 10” lists will be negative. They’ll be based on politics, the virus, financial strife, depression, stress, weight g...
Read MoreWhen Doni and I walked into The Southford Lodge on February 4, 2020 we had decided to start a venture at the worst-possible time. We wanted to create an online "chicken wing enthusiast” group two days after the biggest wing day of the year - the Super Bowl - and right at the very beginning of a global pandemic that would end up lasting for the enti...
Read MoreThe year was 1982 and I was in my senior year at Newtown High School. Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowrey had recently moved to Ohio from Buffalo, New York. They were craving buffalo wings from home and came up with the idea to open their own wing joint. (The bastards didn't think to call ME!)
Read More"The year is 1918. In Detroit, horse-drawn carriages have fully given way to automobiles and yet who really cares? Because over in New Iberia, Louisiana, Adam Estilette and Jacob Frank partner up to create a hot sauce perfectly spiced with a rich blend of cayenne peppers. Bless their spicy hearts."
Read MoreShe stands five feet five and weighs 105 pounds, but don't let her deminutive size fool you. Sonya Thomas, known as The Black Widow for her unrelenting desire to "eliminate the males" in the sport of competitive eating, can eat more than you can. Today we honor her in our Wingaddicts blog, not so much for the 39 World Records she holds, but for her...
Read MoreOh yeah? In 2001, Warner Brothers released an animated film called Osmosis Jones, about an aging zookeeper named Frank DeTorre (played by Bill Murray) a compulsive eater who contracts a virus that nearly kills him before the animated cartoon heroes inside his body - voiced by Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, William Shatner, and David Hyde Pierce -...
Read MoreSo in last week’s blog I wrote about the “birth” of buffalo wings, which has been (almost) indisputably attributed to Teressa Bellisimo at Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York in 1964. But like all great things, there is always that “touch of gray” controversy. While we all know and appreciate that mouthwatering Louisiana hot sauce and butter...
Read MoreBest Wings in Connecticut? If you had asked me last year at this time, who has the best wings in Connecticut I would have said J. Timothy’s, Archie Moore’s, Southford Lodge, Sliders, and TK’s (not necessarily in that order). That would have been my answer because, before this unforgettable year 2020, those were the ONLY places in CT I had ever orde...
Read MoreBy Tommy Wyatt What better way to start off our Wingaddicts blog than to pull an original work from the archives of my life. Long before we started the Wingaddicts, I was a writer. In fact, I was a sports writer for a local newspaper called The Newtown Bee in Newtown, CT. This past weekend I was looking through a box of old things in my basement an...
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