July 06, 2005

Initial thoughts

I have had few honors in my life as great as when I was asked to be a contributor to The Hangar. I did meet Richard Kiel once (star of Eegah!, The Human Duplicators and The Phantom Planet) at a religious broadcasters convention. Nonetheless, I take this privilege very seriously and it is with great trepidation that I post my inaugural entry. After much deliberation, I have purposed in my heart to avoid trying to make a big splash and simply discuss hot wings. Yes, hot wings, there is nothing like them. In my book, hot wings are the greatest food ever created on God?s green earth. If stranded on a desert isle I would be far beyond content with an endless supply of hot wings. But today I come to you with a request: ?Please stop dipping them in the bleu cheese dressing.? Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you, just eat the hot wings. The bleu cheese dressing is for the celery.

I had the privilege of growing up in Fort Lauderdale, home of the greatest hot wing establishment Wings ?N Things. I was hoping to include a link to their website, but had difficulty finding it (apparently wingsandthings.com is a creepy taxidermy site). I even called down to Florida to ask them, but they don?t have a website. How good do you have to be to not even need a website! However, since moving away from Ft. Lauderdale 12 years ago, I have yet to find anyone who makes hot wings with such excellence as my beloved Wings ?N Things. I do a bit of traveling for business, so any recommendations from your neck of the woods would be greatly appreciated (breaded hot wing entries need not apply).

Posted by Selby at July 6, 2005 03:45 PM
Comments

Very nice inaugural post!

I'm embarrased to confess that I was a "wing virgin" up until last year. My "first time" was at a Wings 'n More in College Station. I was down there for a Texas A&M game and one of my best buds (who happens to be a wing connoisseur) was adament that we go to Wings 'n More while we were down there. He didn't let me down. Spicy, messy and oh so succulent.

Posted by: Brenton at July 7, 2005 05:22 PM