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George M. Middius[_2_]

wrote:

>I never understood this. There is absolutely no buffalo meat, no buffalo
>hair, no buffalo parts, or anything else connected to buffalo in this
>food.
>Why do they call it this name?

It's a figure of speech. Chickens like to roam free, like the buffalo
in that old song. If the "buffalo wings" are made from factory
chicken, the restaurant is perpetrating a fraud.