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Drew Cerza: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crowds devour 40 tons of Chicken
Wings! More people
than ever “flocked” to the 2009 NATIONAL
Official attendance for the two
day event totaled some 92,000, which compares to 78,000 last
year. In addition, Saturday set a single
day attendance record of 52,000 attendees. Festival
surveys found people came from 49 states
and 31 countries to enjoy the many
contests and other festivities and, of course, eat chicken wings. Eat chicken wings they did, too…devouring
a festival record 40 tons. Ironically, the only state not represented at
the Wing Fest was Of course,
many of the nation’s top competitive eaters consumed more than their share, as
they took part in the U.S. Chicken Wing
Eating Championships. The diminutive
Sonya Thomas of Sonya finished in 1st Place, by eating 169 chicken wings (3.38 pounds of wing meat) in 12 minutes. This
was the third time she has won the event in recent years. After winning that Contest on Saturday, Thomas returned on Sunday to win the Buffalo Buffet Bowl. Beating all competitors,
she ate four pounds of Buffalo-style foods, including Beef on Weck, Pizza,
Chicken Wings, and Chicken Fingers, in 4
minutes and 51 seconds. Other
contest winners include the following: Celebrity Wing Cook-off: |
2011 BUFFALO WING FESTIVAL - ESTIMATED 85,000 ATTENDED - 555,000 WINGS SERVED - 37 TONS OF WINGS
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