Where are all these chicken wing competitions? Almost every restaurant I’ve been to that has chicken wings as a prominent portion of their menu claims they are award winning chicken wings. But I never see any trophies, medals, plaques, or anything that indicates what award they’ve won for their chicken wings.
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There isn’t really a governing body for food awards; *except* for like, Michelin Star restaurants, which *do* tend to be more expensive, better service, and higher quality food.
When it’s down to chicken wings? Yeah no one cares; and for all we know, Billy Bob the owner took his *recipe* to a state fair and won first place 10+ years ago, but advertises it as “best wings in the state” kind of thing.
I phrased that very specifically; it might *have been* the best wings *recipe* 10+ years ago. But who knows how well the employees stick to that recipe *now*.
All it ends up being is an empty boast, to anyone with a modest amount of skepticism; as above, there isn’t really any big governing body for “best wings/burger/ribs/etc” – and you’re only hoping that their boast is off of winning some county/state competition. *PLENTY* of places have a town/county chili cook off – you can imagine the same for chicken wings, or burgers, or whatever. BUT, whether it’s actually “THE BEST”, is going to always remain subjective to whoever is eating it.
I can think of *dozens* of places I’ve been to, that advertised the “best (food) in the county/state”, but they were pretty average, compared to my hometown, where they know me, that I prefer.
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As a complete tangent;
There’s a burger joint in town that does melted cheese in the middle of the burger patty.
I love it, it’s tasty, they have a lot of options, excellent loaded curly fries, and beer on tap.
But the burger itself? I can *entirely* see why some people wouldn’t be into it – they have to cook the burger well done to get the cheese inside properly melted. And not everyone wants their burger well done.
So even though I might give that particular restaurant a 5/5; I can understand why some folks might rate it’s *burgers* only a 1 or 2 out of 5; cuz they wanted rare/medium rare, and that just isn’t possible with the cheese in the patty.
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