Dinner: The OppositeCluck Review

"Stef Schrader" (stefschrader) 01/08/2018 at 18:17 • Filed to: Foodlopnik, Chicken, Chicken Wings

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No photo. I ate them all.

Please tell Rally Chicken that I don’t eat Puffalump chickens.

[ Full disclosure : I wanted chicken wings, so I bought them. Then I ate them. Also, I have our review template still up in my tabs for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .]

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Five boneless ghost chili wings and five grilled curry wings from Wingzup in Austin, Texas. Extra blue cheese dressing. No celery.

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Last time I ordered wings here, there was some challenge being advertised for eating 25 ghost chili wings in one sitting.

The sauce itself is delightful and not all that painful. A good, vinegary Buffalo-style sauce made with ghost peppers, muted in heat somewhat by fatty fry batter.

However, it’s the volume that makes this a hard no. 10 wings are enough, if not kinda pushing it. I eat like what I eat: a bird.

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Two flavors. Five wings of each flavor. Four little tubs of blue cheese.

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The curry wings were unexpectedly amazing, with an almost citrusy aftertaste. I didn’t need blue cheese with them—in fact, those two flavors didn’t really work with each other. The curry stands on its own. Next time, I should just order these with extra curry sauce on the side instead.

My mouth is on fire from the ghost chili wings. I have yet to find a better ultra-hot wing sauce than this. There may be hotter sauce out there, but it’s hard to go much hotter without adding the gross chemical flavor of capsaicin extracts.

These are the wings I shame all other wings over.

Yes, I’ve been to Buffalo. No, they don’t know what spicy is. There’s a direct correlation between the softness of Fisher-Price stuffed animals and the softness of the upstate New Yorker’s palate. (So soft. Much love to the Puffalumps.)

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Pretty sure there is curry wing sauce on my laptop and/or face right now. (The boneless wings were stabbable with a fork.) I am typing this with one cleanish finger.

Blue cheese was extra-thick this time and wasn’t quite cheesy enough, both in flavor or in quantity of chunks. Fewer, bigger chunks made it harder to scoop out of the little tubs for the perfect buffalo sauce to blue cheese ratio.

Not enough room to also eat poutine.

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The bathroom. Soon.

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Full of chicken.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Stef Schrader 01/08/2018 at 19:31

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Damnit Stef, now I want wings.

Stef Schrader > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 01/08/2018 at 19:39

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I recommend eating wings.

Dusty Ventures > Stef Schrader 01/08/2018 at 20:01

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You want hot sauce, wait until Lemons. There will be much regret and questioning of your life choices

And pooping

Stef Schrader > Dusty Ventures 01/09/2018 at 03:19

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accurate description of the after-effects

HideyoshiJP > Stef Schrader 01/09/2018 at 10:13

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This post reads like a love letter to the chicken wing industry, AKA Big Wingz (with a zed). Just who is paying you?

Stef Schrader > HideyoshiJP 01/09/2018 at 13:16

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Jalopnik.

...so I can blow money on chicken wings.

(I have had bad chicken wings before, FWIW. They’re out there. It’s hard to screw up the magic of chicken in spicy, vinegary sauce, but somehow it happens. Sometimes the coating is too thick, or the wings aren’t sauced enough. See also: BWW.)

HideyoshiJP > Stef Schrader 01/09/2018 at 21:47

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I’ve heard of this Jalopnik. A den full of rapscallions willing to cast aside their integrity for a bit of brown Italian cheese on wheels.

Stef Schrader > HideyoshiJP 01/10/2018 at 21:45

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I think that’s just Raph.