Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?”

In response to last week’s questions, “(In honor of Super Bowl Sunday): Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?”, my dad’s beach buddy Bob noted, “It all depends how long they have been left on the kitchen counter or in the sun.”

My writing and sailing friend Rich wondered, “Since everything seems to taste like chicken, is it just a plot by the Chick-Fil-A Cows, or is there a culinary school class that teaches new chefs how to turn any item into something that tastes like chicken?” My running buddy Tony responded, “They do taste like chicken. The Chick-Fil-A cow introduced a spicy chicken wing when the flying buffalos became extinct.”

Regarding flying buffalos, my neighbor Dick noted that “certain types of buffalo have very long shaggy coats. Under these coats are winglets...only used at night when no one is watching. Also very tasty for appetizers. (The rest of the buffalo tastes terrible...throw it away).” To this, my cousin Wes asked “how did buffalos fly with such little wings?”

My organizational behavior friend Marya chortled, “Only if you are Jessica Simpson!” My wife Alison and friend Patrick recalled Jessica Simpson’s comment. “She was confused by Chicken of the Sea, which she thought tasted an awful lot like tuna. Chicken of the Sea is, of course, a brand of tuna.”

My college roomie John wrote, “Yes, they taste more like chicken vs frog legs or other food items that some may claim to taste like chicken.” My friend Vivian explained, “That's because it's related to chicken fried steak.”

My sailing friend Kurt credited his wife Connie saying, “only after the 5th one.” And my colleague Swany shared, “In the words of the little known great plains warrior chief, Chief Stands-in-Hooters, ‘Hmmmmmm, tatonka hot.’”

My friend Tracey concluded, “Maybe it's not really buffalo.”

My arborist and Margarita Night friend Ty explained, “They taste more like a fiery pit of doom if you get the right ones. Those folks up in Buffalo needed to create something that would keep them warm during that long time of year when the sky starts falling.” My pilot friend Ted, a 10 yr former Buffalo resident, explained “a real Buffalonian does not really care what the wings taste like. (S)he is just happy to be back inside a warm bar to even care what his wings taste like!”

My friend Richard hypothesized “that buffalo are actually born as chickens, and many remain chickens all their lives. However, it would seem that a significant number of them enjoy sitting on their couches watching football. Because they become sedentary, they lose their wings (to our taste buds’ delight and our cardiologists’ aggravation) from lack of use and gain a lot of weight. Of course, this is just a hypothesis.” So my sailing cousin Don explained, “This is a result of the extensive experiment a long time ago of cross-breeding buffalo with chickens, the supposed purpose of which was to get buffalo to roost together. However, the rancher-farmer-scientists stopped the project when they contemplated the inherent dangers---not to mention potential fall-out---of flying buffalo, Now, buffalo herders clip the vestigial wings of the buffalo regularly and market them as hors d'oeuvres.”

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Really cool: From my very creative and knowledgeable friend Jed who knew a fascinating Buffalo fact (confirmed by Wikipedia):

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo. The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are
a. the city of Buffalo, New York , which is used as a noun adjunct in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
n. the noun buffalo, an animal, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes" or "buffalos"), in order to avoid articles;
v. the verb "buffalo" meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.

Marking each "buffalo" with its use as shown above gives you:
Buffalo(a) buffalo(n) Buffalo(a) buffalo(n) buffalo(v) buffalo(v) Buffalo(a) buffalo(n).