A brief history of Buffalo Wings

This Brief History of Buffalo Wings popped up in my feed this morning...

I still remember the first time I heard of them... January 1982, and I'd just reported to Groton for Submarine School. The guy bunking beneath me (Skip) was from Buffalo and had (like me) just graduated from boot camp, since it was a Friday he intended to go home and get some wings. I found the whole idea faintly odd. (I don't think I actually had any for years and years....) He ended up getting snowed in, and when he got back was transferred to a different barracks because he was being moved to a class that started two weeks later because he'd missed the start of the one I was in.

Oddly enough, our careers would continue to intertwine... He was a couple of classes behind me in SWSEA at GMS Dam Deck (and we were briefly room mates), and then he and I ended up in the same class in FTB 'C' school here at Bangor. After that, he went east to a boat under construction and I stayed here for a brief spell of shore duty before going east when I was ordered to the 'hog. We ran into each other again in PCAN, when both of our boats were there for post construction (him) and post overhaul (me) workups. The last time I saw him, he'd just reported to TTF just a couple of days before I got out.

Though I thought the idea odd then, I *love* Buffalo wings now...