Ty's Taste Tests: Spicy Garlic Sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings

I, much like the rest of the Midwest, am currently freezing cold. It isn't as cold here as other places, my cousin texted me and said it is -50 degrees where he lives, but it is still pretty cold here in Saint Louis. It was cold enough for schools, and some businesses even, to close today. So that means I have both my kids at home with me, and my wife is out of town for work. The three of us, me, my son and daughter, tend to get pretty bored when we have to stay indoors all day. So, just to get out of the house, I took them to Buffalo Wild Wings.

I like the food at Buffalo Wild Wings, and my kids love it, especially the mac and cheese. It was a good excuse to get out of the house, it was a short drive, and I made sure to warm the car up before we left, and we all bundled up. I got my usual lunch order, the small size of traditional wings, and I got a sauce that I had never tried, or seen before on the menu. I'm usually a dry rub wing fan, but sometimes I like to try the wet sauces. The one I tried today, that I have not seen, was "spicy garlic".

I love spice in my wings. It is the traditional way to eat them. But, I also love garlic. Garlic is probably my favorite spice. I will put it in everything if I can. I even eat a version of spicy garlic everyday. I put Siracha brand chili garlic sauce on my eggs every morning. So seeing the "spicy garlic" option on the menu intrigued me. I ordered it, with my other half being my favorite, salt and vinegar rub.

When my food arrived I was immediately taken aback at the "spicy garlic" sauce image. I don't know what I was expecting, but I didn't expect it to look like traditional wing sauce, with flecks of garlic in it. I assumed it would look a little lighter, possibly like their Parmesan garlic sauce. Nope. This wing sauce looked like wing sauce. That being said, I was still going to eat it. And when I did, I was immediately in love. It was an almost perfect mixture of my 2 favorite wing flavors. At first you get the kick of a medium wing sauce, but then that garlic comes in, and man is it a good bite. It is a really nice blend. The spice is great, and that garlic, it is almost like eating an Italian dish. It has that good of a flavor to it. I am part Italian too, so I know a thing or two about Italian food.

After that first wing, I wish I had made my whole order with just the "spicy garlic" sauce. It was really tasty. I don't know if it was just an oversight by me, or if it is a truly new flavor, but I am a fan. The only downside of the sauce, and this is the case with every wet sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings, they slather it on the wings. It was sitting in a pool of the sauce. But, when I would pull out a piece of chicken that was dry, I would dip it in the sauce. When I finished my half of "spicy garlic", and moved onto my salt and vinegar, I found myself dipping that in the "spicy garlic". I chose that flavor over my usual ranch or blue cheese dipping sauce. I was even using the "spicy garlic" as a sauce for my carrots and celery. It is really a taste sensation.

If you are a fan of chicken wings, and frequent Buffalo Wild Wings, I highly recommend trying this sauce out. I'm sure other wing spots have it too. It is that good. Spicy garlic is now one of my favorite wing sauces, and I do not see that changing for a long while. Well done Buffalo Wild Wings. I tip my hat to you.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He is glad that Buffalo Wild Wings is still great, you know since Arby’s owns them now.

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Please Arby's, Do Not Screw Up Buffalo Wild Wings

Arby's has some new meats

In some terrible recent news, Arby's has bought Buffalo Wild Wings.

You all know how I feel about Arby's. And for those that don't, I cannot stand that place. It is an affront to fast food, and food, for that matter. They make disgusting trash food that is too expensive for what you get. Contrary to what they say, they do not have the meats, at least not quality meats. They do not slow cook any of the BBQ they claim to in commercials. Their pork belly, I have to imagine is the kind of bacon that you can buy pre cooked at the grocery store, and then they mash multiple pieces of that together to give the image of low rent pork belly. Basically everything that Arby's does, I am against. I do not trust that place and I absolutely do not trust their food.

The problem for me, I truly, unabashedly love Buffalo Wild Wings. I go there a ton. I would say that I eat there about a dozen times a month. No bull shit. I am a big time fan of their wings. They are decent sized, they come out hot and the sauces are pretty good. When they introduced the dry rub, I grew to love BWW even more. I love all of the dry rubs, especially the salt and vinegar. That is what I order 90 percent of the time when I go there. Outside of wings, BWW does have an okay menu. I'm on the Atkins diet for 5 days a week, and when I go there on one of the rare occasions when I don't get the dry rub wings, I will order their naked chicken tenders. It is pretty much just sliced chicken breast, but they add a sauce on the side, and give me a side salad with that, I'm good. They, in fact, have a lot of Atkins options outside of wings. They have the naked tenders I just mentioned, pretty good salads, other naked chicken options, they have a lot. The rest of the menu is pretty good too. When not dieting, I am a big fan of the buffalitos, which is French fries shaped like chips. I like their nachos. They have a great hummus and veggie tray as an appetizer. They have solid boneless wings. They have good tacos. Hell, even their non chicken stuff is good. My mom loves the burgers. My kids love the corn dogs and the mac and cheese. If I had to gripe about one thing when it comes to BWW, it's the fact that they are a Pepsi establishment. Pepsi is gross. Give me Coke products any day.

But, that is my only problem, until now. I do not know what this means for BWW. How will this purchase change things? Will they start to add some kind of disgusting Arby's roast beef options to the menu? Will they use that nasty ass cheese sauce for their nachos now instead of nacho cheese? Will they try and make their "pork belly sandwich" there? Will they start to push their gross horsey sauce? I have so many questions that I fear will either, come to fruition, or never be answered.

This is a real blow to me, as far as dining out goes. I'm not a picky eater, but when I dislike a place, it is on my shit list for the rest of my life. I stated in my Arby's blog about their "venison" sandwich that Arby's made me sick a couple of times, and since the second time, I have never gone back. It helps that I have Lion's Choice here in Saint Louis too. But, you screw me over once or twice, I'm done. Is this going to happen with BWW? Are the people that used to own that franchise just going to give the keys to the people that run Arby's? If they do, that could spell doom for me. When I go to BWW after the purchase is finalized, and I will still patronize BWW, what happens if I get sick from the food? I mean, I won't deviate from what I normally order, but my order has nothing to do with the people making the food and purchasing the inventory to make said food. If it is the people from Arby's, I would almost guarantee that I will get sick and it will ruin BWW for me forever. I don't want that to happen.

As I stated above, I genuinely enjoy BWW. But this whole Arby's purchase is really going to throw a wrench in my subsequent visits. If Arby's slowly starts to take over the menu, my dozen trips a month will continue to slowly dwindle until I never go there again. I can guarantee that much. I don't like, but much worse, don't trust Arby's. They have burned me before in the past. I will be super upset if the same thing happens at BWW. This is disheartening news to say the least. I wish it weren't true, but after much research, it unfortunately is. I hope things stay the same, but I'm only about 50 percent sure that it will. Arby's bought BWW for a reason, and that reason will spell nothing but doom. This is very upsetting.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He is mistaken on one thing about Arby's. Those curly fries are the bomb.

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