By Nikki
This was our best trip hands down to Buffalo, NY for the Buffalo wing festival. This was our fourth year going and everything was flawless despite a wind storm that hit the stadium Saturday night and took down our tents. We were up and running with rental tents for the final day of the festival thankfully. This year we brought six of our most popular wing sauces for the wing enthusiasts to sample. (Hickory Smoked Honey BBQ, Toasted Asian Sesame, Coal Cracker, Almost Everything, Kinda’ Hot Medium Sauce & The Ghost Face Killa’)
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| There's a lot of interesting head gear in Buffalo! |
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| Ian & Greg - hosts of the Arooga's Ghost Face Killa Challenge! |
The one sauce that got the most attention at our tent not only for it’s creative and mysterious name but for the challenge that stood behind it. The Ghost Face Killa’ was definitely stirring up a lot of buzz and hype around the entire stadium about the wild challenge we had going on at the bright yellow Arooga’s tent. This year a special “I survived THE GHOST FACE KILLA” shirt was being awarded to souls who succeeded the challenge. Hosts Greg & Ian were the ones to determine if they had passed or failed the challenge. We had about a 40% success rate. The challenge was to eat 3 of our extra hot Ghost Face Killa wings that were treated special with extra ghost chili extract in 45 seconds. All meat had to be stripped from the bones and swallowed to win the battle. I felt so bad for the people doing this challenge, your eyes would water just from the smell of it. I feel like they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. At one point while video taping the sauce got in my eye and was one of the worst pains I ever experienced, I couldn’t imagine put those wings in my stomach! Ouch!
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| It was a very intense contest! |
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| Not sure if that's a happy face or not... but I bet she's feeling the burn! |
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| Not everyone can handle the heat! |
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| The prized Ghost Face Killa t-shirt! |
Last year I met Desiree at the Wing Festival where she was crowded Miss Buffalo Wing 2010. We met up with her again this year where she had to assist with the 2011 pageant and then came to hang out with us at the Arooga’s tent. She was crazy enough to take on the Ghost Face Killa wing eating contest after some convincing by Greg. Even though she only ate 2 of the 3 wings we thought anyone to take on the challenge in a crown deserves a t-shirt!
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| Nikki with Desiree, Miss Buffalo Wing 2010 |
Besides being able to meet restaurant owners from around the country and sample their unique wing sauces, there is also a National blind taste test of the wing sauces in six different categories. This year, Hickory Smoked Honey BBQ brought home the trophy for Arooga’s in the Traditional BBQ category. It is also the 4th year Arooga’s was lucky enough to bring a trophy back to Central PA for the high quality and taste of our wing sauces!
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| Gary recieving the trophy! |
Here is a picture of the Arooga’s team with our trophy and World Champion eater Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas. This is the 4th year in a row Sonya won the professional wing eating contest, and this year she ate 183 wings in 12 minutes which is a world record! She weighs 100 lbs, it was a pretty crazy site to see.
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| The Black Widow! |
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| Our IT manager, Adam with Joey Chestnut who also holds many competitive eating records |
We had a great time talking with the patrons at the event who came from all over the country, and we'd like to thank everyone for all the positive feedback we received about the flavor and quality of all our sauces along with how fun our Ghost Face Killa Challenge was. It’s so great to hear peoples opinions about us who do not have an Arooga’s in their area yet. We look forward to coming back to see all the new friends we met, a new Ghost Face Challenge Shirt and more delicious wing sauces for all to try!
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| The Arooga's Buffalo Crew! |
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