National Buffalo Wing Festival
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National Buffalo Wing Festival is a weekend festival held at Coca-Cola Field in downtown Buffalo, New York celebrating the Buffalo style chicken wing. The festival is held on Labor Day weekend and culminates with the IFOCE sanctioned Buffalo Wing eating contest.
The first festival was held in 2002. Founder Drew Cerza, called the "Wing King" by The Buffalo News, was said to have modeled the event on a fictitious festival from the movie Osmosis Jones. Though it has been claimed that this is the first festival of its kind, WingStock on Main Street in Downtown Buffalo was held annually prior to the first National Buffalo Wing Festival. Drew Cerza paved the way for the Chicken Wing Hall of Fame and made Buffalo the birthplace of the chicken wings.
Jill Greenburg said, "Of local festivals that have come and gone the Wing Fest’s staying power is a result of raising approximately $200,000 for local charities and serving almost 3 million chicken wings with 100 sauce varieties to over half a million hungry visitors over the years." [1]
Read more: http://blogs.artvoice.com/stillbuffalo/2011/09/08/national-buffalo-wing-festival/#ixzz1YmshokVg
It is estimated that a quarter of a million people have attended the event since its inception. In 2010, the festival was video webcast live to over 84,000 online viewers.
The National Buffalo Wing Festival by the numbers:
- 407,000 people
- 2.4 Million Wings Consumed
- 137 Tons of Wings In Weight
- 191 Restaurants Participated
- $125,000 in Charitable Contributions
- 1 Wedding
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- Festivals in New York
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- Recurring events established in 2002
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