Records Fly in Buffalo Wing Orgy

More than 78,000 "wing-nuts" at the recent 7 th NATIONAL BUFFALO WING FESTIVAL gorged themselves on an impressive, 27 tons of chicken wings in just 2 days.

The record consumption of around 27 wings per head occurred at the Labor Day weekend event, held in the home of the Buffalo Wing: Buffalo, NY.

The eat-a-thon saw an 8% increase on last year’s hungry mob who only managed to chomp through a modest 25 tons.

Among this year’s highlights was the return of competitive eater Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Virginia, who captured 1 st Place in the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championships.

Sonya consumed 165 wings in 12 minutes (4.23 pounds) but missed her world record of 173 wings established at last year’s festival.

Happily, Sonya left around 2,105,835 wings for the rest of the crowd.

In an ironic twist with a national marketing opportunity, KFC's first entry in the National Buffalo Wing Festival resulted in first place honours in the Traditional Barbecue Sauce category. The Colonel's Honey BBQ sauce topped all other Traditional Barbecue sauce entries. Ouch!!

Meanwhile, 22 year old Jennifer Starkey of Niagara Falls, NY, whose wings look pretty good to me too, was crowned Miss Buffalo Wing 2008.

Next year's event will be held on September 5 - 6, 2009, so there's plenty of time to get into training and bring Sonya down a peg or two.

Charcool stocks 3 flavours of the original Anchor Bar Buffalo Wing sauces that started it all back in 1964 so hungry Australians can get a taste of real Buffalo Wings at home.