Tops to sell Anchor Bar wings

There are now an additional 71 ways across the region to pick up an order of Anchor Bar chicken wings.

Tops Friendly Markets said Monday it has entered into a deal to sell the popular food item — created by the well-known Buffalo restaurant — at its grocery outlets in Western and Central New York and northwest Pennsylvania.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Tops, based in Williamsville, becomes the first food retailer licensed to sell Anchor Bar Buffalo Wings in its 71-store chain.

Company officials said that five varieties of Anchor Bar chicken wings are available, fully cooked, in the prepared food section of all Tops locations everyday.

The Anchor Bar restaurant on Main Street in Buffalo is credited with creating the original “Buffalo Wing” in 1964.

It is also the second outside partnership signed by Tops with another popular area restaurant chain. By the end of 2008 Tops expects to have a Tim Hortons presence in all of its stores, as well as Tops Xpress locations.

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WINGBOWL 17 2009 ENTRY 1

WELL ITS NOT TOO EARLY TO START THINKING WINGBOWL 2009 . THIS WAS TAKEN FROM http://angelocataldi.com/rants.html

Q. Please do us all a favor and make this a Delaware Valley (PA, NJ, DE) only event in 2009. The professional eater idea and their acceptance into Wing Bowl are old and really do not satisfy the WIP listeners. It's a Philly event and Philly deserves a local guy or gal as its winner. Please consider this suggestion or this great local event will really begin to lose all its excitement and Philly uniqueness.

Bob

A. We are greatly concerned about the emergence of “outsiders” dominating Wing Bowl, and we are hard at work trying to come up with a way to bring it back to its roots. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as it might seem. Because it is broadcast on WIP, the contest is governed by the FCC, and we must conform to some stringent rules in running it. Our thought right now – 11 months away from the next Wing Bowl – is to have an event that is strictly for amateurs in 2009. Anyone who is or has been associated with a professional-eating organization would be ineligible. I hope – if we can get this plan approved – that it will address many of the concerns about the competition in Wing Bowl 17.