Category: food

01/15/09 07:25 - 7ºF - ID#47417

Winging a guess

I'm at Duff's right now my car's getting some maintenance. And while I am looking at my plate of wings I ponder one of the great mysteries of life: why is something as bad for you as wings almost always served with celery? I've never understood it. Are you supposed to eat the celery and then pretend that it balances out the enormous amount of fat you've put into your arteries? Or is there some more sinister purpose for this bizarre paradox?

metalpeter writes at 04:34:50 01/17/09 - Comment #44567: I don't remember the exact reason but what (e:Vincent) says is very close to the reason. There is something that it does to the taste or is supposed to do to the taste in your mouth. It is kinda like when you (from what I have heard) taste wine there is some cracker they give you. I'm sorry I don't remember the exact effect, that I was told about. Some places also now give carrots instead I guess they are prepackaged and don't go bad just a guess and they go with Blue Cheese also. But why ruin a great wing with moldy cheese that tastes gross.

jbeatty writes at 09:55:28 01/17/09 - Comment #44553: They can be used as an edible spreader for application of bleu cheese to the wing.

vincent writes at 08:18:13 01/15/09 - Comment #44525: Well I have always found the the celery helps sooth the sting from the hot sauce.

zobar writes at 08:12:17 01/15/09 - Comment #44524: When I was a kid they came with carrots, too, which disappeared for a while but have started showing up again here and there. I always figured the vegetables & blue cheese were to cut the spiciness. Also, if you're eating pepperoni pizza & wings, that can be a lot of oily food to eat at once. The celery gives you something to munch on between servings to let your aorta catch up a little.

Lately I've taken to putting the blue cheese dressing on the pizza crust, which I always kind of regarded as a really dry and boring breadstick getting in the way of my next slice.

- Z

james writes at 07:55:12 01/15/09 - Comment #44523: Because you eat the wings for the blue cheese, at least I do. Celery gives you additional warm sticks to dip.

theli writes at 07:40:44 01/15/09 - Comment #44522: I have NEVER got this.

Probably just a tradition. Maybe in the old days they didn't get enough wings to fill you up or something.