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Default Where did the term "Buffalo Chicken" come from?

On 22/02/2012 6:13 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> 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?

>
> I read that they came from a bar in Buffalo NY.
>
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The Anchor Bar in Buffalo. I have been there. A friend of mine opened up
a bar in St.Catharines in 1976 and we scooted over to Buffalo and
Niagara Falls NY to sample wings and to try to get recipes.