Spend Labor Day Feasting At The Annual National Buffalo Wing Festival
Another Labor Day, another annual National Buffalo Wing Festival. The Buffalo, NY event stretches back to 1992, when Wing King Drew Cerza was inspired to start it by Bill Murray's junk food addicted character in "Osmosis Jones." Over the years, it's grown from a small competitive eating spectacle to a full-blown convention--hosting over 400,000 total people, generating over $125,000 for New York charities, and even serving as the site of a wedding.
This year's gala promises to build on last year's gigantic festival, where more than 78,000 people consumed over 27 tons of wings.
Buffalo Wing Festival organizers are fond of describing the spectrum of sauces as stretching from the mild to the suicidal, with dozens upon dozens of stands serving their specialties. The "Official Wing Sauce of the National Buffalo Wing Festival," Frank's RedHot, will be given away from a booth at the festival. There are also a variety of eating contests, including one that involves bobbing for chicken wings in a vat of blue cheese.
Festival hours are noon to 9pm on Satuday and noon to 7pm on Sunday. Available lodging is already getting very dicey, but there are festival sponsored guest rooms at nearby Holiday Inns going for $119.00. Getting into the festival itself will cost you $5/day, although children under 8 are free and can avail themselves of the Kids Zone. They ask you not to buy tickets from scalpers, on account of the whole charity thing.
Once you get inside food tickets are $1 each, with two tickets entitling you to 3 chicken wings. Soda and bottled water can be purchased for cash, as can beer. That last one might become particularly important if you decided to actually bring along your kids. Free isn't always free if the little darlings are getting in the way of literally tons of chicken wings waiting to be eaten.
Related Stories:
· National Buffalo Wing Festival [Official Site]
· Buffalo Travel Guide [Jaunted]
· Food Festivals Coverage [Jaunted]
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