WEBVTT - 042724 Way Black History Fact - John Young and Buffalo Wild Wings

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<v Speaker 1>Right now, it's time for the way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>And we're gonna read from history dot com. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>this is not Ramses and Q dot com. It is

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<v Speaker 1>History dot com. You can check it out for yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna talk about and I'm just I pulled some

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<v Speaker 1>paragraphs here along. The short of it is that you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Wild Wings originated with a black restaurant tour, and

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<v Speaker 1>the popular narrative is that it originated with white restaurant tours.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't share it all with you because it's too long,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm gonna give you just a couple of bullet points.

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<v Speaker 1>In the nineteen sixties, a black restaurant tour named John

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<v Speaker 1>Young open Wings and Things in Buffalo, New York. Around

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<v Speaker 1>the same time, a white couple named Frank and Teresa

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<v Speaker 1>Bellissimo began so in Chicken Wings at the Anchor Bar,

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<v Speaker 1>about a mile away from Wings and Things. By the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighties, the Bellissimos had become famous for supposedly inventing

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<v Speaker 1>Buffalo wings. Yet in recent years, local historians tracing the

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<v Speaker 1>history of the dish have drawn attention to the contributions

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<v Speaker 1>of John Young as well as the cooks who came

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<v Speaker 1>before him, and wings have had a place in both

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<v Speaker 1>restaurant home cooking for a long time, around the country

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<v Speaker 1>and around globe. In Buffalo, the oldest known establishment to

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<v Speaker 1>serve chicken wings is the Clarendon Hotel. A copy of

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<v Speaker 1>the hotel's menu from July first, eighteen fifty seven, listed

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<v Speaker 1>an entree called chicken wings fried. In addition to this menu,

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<v Speaker 1>Cynthia VanNess, the director of the Library and Archives at

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<v Speaker 1>the Buffalo History Museum, has also found a recipe for

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<v Speaker 1>chicken wings in a eighteen ninety four issue of the

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<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Commercial Advisor. It's unclear when Young opened his Buffalo restaurant,

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<v Speaker 1>although he applied for a business license for Wings and

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<v Speaker 1>Things in nineteen sixty six. Interviews with the Young and

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<v Speaker 1>former customers indicate that he likely started selling food under

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<v Speaker 1>that name before applying for the license to do so,

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<v Speaker 1>and in case, Young's restaurant became known for serving breaded

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<v Speaker 1>whole wings tossed in Young's own version of mumbo sauce. Again,

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<v Speaker 1>the article goes a little bit more into the history,

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<v Speaker 1>the black history of that down in DC and blah

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<v Speaker 1>blah blah bah skipping ahead. At some point in the

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<v Speaker 1>mid nineteen sixties, Frank and Teresa Bellissimo's their Anchor Bar,

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<v Speaker 1>began serving its own version of chicken wings. Unlike Young's

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<v Speaker 1>wing the Anchor Anchor Bars, chicken wings were fried, broken

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<v Speaker 1>into pieces, and tossed in hot sauce in this recipe

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<v Speaker 1>that today's buffalo wings most closely resemble. As the dish

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<v Speaker 1>took off in the nineteen seventies and eighties, it was

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<v Speaker 1>the police and most who received most of the credit

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<v Speaker 1>for quote inventing unquote the buffalo wing. Young had moved

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<v Speaker 1>to Illinois around nineteen seventy. When you returned to Buffalo

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<v Speaker 1>about a decade later, he was surprised to see how

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<v Speaker 1>many restaurants were serving what they called buffalo wings. He

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<v Speaker 1>was also surprised to see that the Anchor Bar had

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<v Speaker 1>claimed the title of being the first restaurant to serve

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<v Speaker 1>the wings, especially because he thought that Frank Bellissimo had

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<v Speaker 1>gotten the idea from him. Young's advocacy helped him secure

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<v Speaker 1>recognition as the first person to open a Buffalo restaurant

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<v Speaker 1>centered around chicken wings. He names it wings and things.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what he specialized in, and I think he absolutely

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<v Speaker 1>deserves credit for that, Van Neess says. In nineteen eighties

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<v Speaker 1>and more restaurants outside Buffalo began to semiple their own

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<v Speaker 1>buffalo style wings. The franchise Buffalo Wild Wings, originally named

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<v Speaker 1>Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck, opened in nineteen eighty two

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<v Speaker 1>and Columbus, Ohio. As Buffalo Wings spread throughout the country,

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<v Speaker 1>they became associated with football, and in particular, the Super Bowl.

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<v Speaker 1>This increased demand for chicken wings has come with a

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<v Speaker 1>serious change in price. Back when the Super Bowl began

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty seven, buffalo wings would have been a

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<v Speaker 1>cheap chicken option for game day food. Ironically, their growth

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<v Speaker 1>in popularity since then has turned wings into one of

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<v Speaker 1>the most expensive and in demand pieces of chicken. And

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<v Speaker 1>just so you know, I don't believe I've ever eaten

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<v Speaker 1>a chicken wing. Ramses doesn't consider.

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<v Speaker 2>Boned chicken real chicken.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I can't. I can't do it with the bones

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<v Speaker 1>in it too much.

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<v Speaker 2>Need you guys to hear this stuff? I can't do

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<v Speaker 2>it with the wings, and it is a clearly I

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<v Speaker 2>can't do it with the bones is a clearly rational

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<v Speaker 2>thing to say. But that the chicken with the bones

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<v Speaker 2>isn't real chicken is insane.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen, man, I need them strips. That's the real chicken.

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<v Speaker 1>But anyway, that's that