German Red ChickenThis is probably a hopeless quest, but... When I was a kid, my mother worked a German restaurant, and the owner-cook...
Sharing all your recipes was German Red Chickenrmg I have some recipes that I won't share, at least not now. We have frequent potluck luncheons at work, and I have developed several 'signature' dishes that I like to bring -- a few desserts...
Andy
That's why chicken wings used to be so cheap. Most people could not bother with them. Buffalo is just down the road and across the border from me, but Buffalo wings made it over here by the mid 70's. Changes in liqour laws made it easier to have New York style bars here instead of having the option of a hotel lounge or a beer hall. For some of those places that opened up and changed out drinking habits forever, chicken wings were the big draw. The bars could buy them really cheap, split the wings up, put them into the deep fryer for a few minutes and toss them with some hot sauce. It was cheap and easy, and since beer is the perfect beverage for hot wings, beers sales were healthy.
Unfortunately, the success of marketing an otherwise worthless piece of bird flesh has led to drastically higher prices for them.
When it comes to making wings at home, there are a few factors to consider. Some places make better wings than others. Restaurants buying in bulk get a much better deal than I can get in the grocery store, and when it comes right down to it, I can get a pretty good feed of wings at one of our local bars for not much more than it would cost just for the wings for me to cook them at home. Then there is the cost of the sauce, getting celery and carrot sticks and the blue cheese dressing. It's pretty much like getting someone to cook them serve them and do the dirty dishes for free. The big difference is how much it is going to cost for beer to wash them down.
