The Brief
- National Chicken Wing Day is celebrated each year on Wednesday, July 29.
- To mark the occasion, many restaurants and businesses are offering deals.
- Chicken wings originated in Buffalo, New York in 1964 at the Anchor Bar.
National Chicken Wing Day is Wednesday, July 29, and many restaurants and businesses are offering deals to mark the occasion. Here are all the places you can get some wings and save some money.
The backstory:
National Chicken Wing Day commemorates the 1964 origination of the famous Buffalo wing at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, when Dominic Bellissimo was tending bar and a group of his friends arrived at the bar hungry. Dominic asked his mother, Teressa, to prepare something for his friends to eat, so she deep-fried chicken wings, which usually went into the stock pot for soup.…