Slow Saturday Question

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As the great ice storms take over the South, one pressing question we need to all pause and consider is this…should lemon pepper be the signature chicken wing flavor of Georgia?

If you’re making a wing run on game days, what’s your go to flavor of choice? I’m personally a Garlic Parmesan fan, but I dare say it shouldn’t be the state flavor.

I also think there’s more pressing concerns that should be taken to our state legislature, such as banishing GeorgianTech from the state and designating Auburn as the laughing stock football rival for the state of Georgia.

What say you?

42 thoughts on “Slow Saturday Question”

  1. I suppose it’s a good sign when legislators devote their limited supply of brain cells to subjects like that. When they’re thinking about chicken wings, at least they’re not thinking of ways to make things worse for us.
    “No man’s liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session”.

    • So, my man Eric has the stones to stand up in the House of Representatives and introduce this bill and no one challenged the fucker to a duel?
      That’s what is wrong with politics today. SMDH.

      • Unlimber the cap and ball and end the discussion right there: “The gentleman from Banks County votes no.”
        Lemon Pepper Chicken wings indeed. Where’s RangerRuss when you need him…

  2. But, no, please. Lemon pepper? Chicken wings should be mild, medium, hot, or Three Mile Island. Lemon pepper is for the same kind of people who order fru fru cocktails.

    • That is a correlation I had not considered, but now that you mentioned it? Tracks perfectly. People who like super sweet drinks also prefer lemon pepper wings.

      Is that a crime? Not at all. Should this smaller segment of people be allowed to claim LPW as the official wing flavor of Georgia? No. Eat what you like. But don’t pretend everyone likes it, or should accept your niche taste as public policy. Is this legislator just a tool of Big Lemon Pepper?

      At least if this raging issue of tremendous importance is s what Eric is focused on, he isn’t busy trying to legislate something stupider and far reaching.

      • The fact that some people voted for the half-wit speaks volumes about us all.

    • Now wait a minute! I love making craft cocktails and I don’t like sweet ones. Don’t get me wrong. I love a whisky on the rocks, but if there is another GTP Refugees meet up tailgate next season I have some cocktails I’ll to introduce the group to that are bangers.

        • I’ll let one of our grill masters handle that. I’m admittedly average in that arena. Maybe my interest in cocktails spills over, so to speak, as to infringe on my ability to cook.

          I could pre-batch certain cocktails though for easy serving at a tailgate.

      • I understand Sanford. Craft cocktails do not equal fru fru cocktails. I’m sure I’d enjoy 6 or 8 of your craft cocktails, then go spend the night in the Otis Campbell bed.

        • I’ll be damned. I had no idea Otis had a last name although I should have assumed so.
          Around here we have the “Otis” award for those who imbibe, pontificate, then hibernate. We love our Otis’s

  3. I would also like to add to the bill banishing the nerds from Georgia… make it known that they are and always will be the enemy of the state

  6. You can like them both. There are times I want a hot wing (no way is a state going to make a Buffalo wing sauce the official anything in Georgia). Lemon pepper wings have their place, but they aren’t the official state anything.

    • Lemon Pepper is a WR screen against the nerds.
      Peach Habernero is Ringo’s pic- 6 against Bama.

  7. The more important question here is, WHY does Georgia need to have an official wing flavor? What’s next, favorite salsa flavor?

    While I agree with Hogbody that I prefer legislators focused on ways that don’t make our lives more difficult, I also feel introducing meaningless bills like this should trigger some kind of automatic impeachment clause.

  8. 1. Everyone is aware of Lemon Pepper Lou and Magic City, correct?

    2. Chicken wings are possibly the most overrated food item ever. There is so little meat that they are not worth the time, nor the effort.

    • yeah, it involves a bit of work. But if you eat ’em in bulk like I do, the meat adds up.

  9. We prefer medium wings so the whole family can enjoy. I don’t think I’ve ever ordered lemon pepper wings, but I’ve had a lemonyaki wing before and it wasn’t terrible. That said, in GA I would think smoked bbq wings suit our state better. Fox Bros., has some pretty good ones if you’re ever looking! But really, I don’t want someone deciding what our state wing should be. Typical political arrogance and overreach.

  10. That there is nothing more important than this in Georgia for the state legislature almost makes me wish I hadn’t retired to south Florida. Then I checked the weather outside it’s 76 this morning I’m good.

    • We’re in negative degrees so I’ve cranked the heater and opened all the doors and windows to give some back.

    • I look forward to the first burn. I DO NOT look forward to the second burn, but that’s the price you pay.

      • Easy fix…have ice cream for dessert…
        and when your sittin’ there with that second burn you can say,…
        “come on ice cream…come on ice cream”.

      • This is the first time I ever heard of a first and second burn and it took me a second to get it, but damned if that’s not a good rule of life to live by.

  13. As an older guy I can recall as a kid when no one ate chicken wings. If you bought a whole chicken and cut it up to fry the pieces in Crisco or Snowdrift in a cast iron pan, the wings and back were never included. If you didn’t just throw them away you made stock so you could make gravy for potatoes or rice. Nowadays scientists are working on gene splicing to develop a 6 winged chicken. Just kidding, I think.

  14. Watched Georgia basketball do Georgia basketball against a bad Texas team. Dammit Lucy…

    • Oh it was bad. Blue Cain is struggling in SEC play and Wilkins got a lot of minutes, which is usually a bad sign. Folks are starting to learn how to shut down the transition game for us, and we have to adapt.

  15. 1. Lemon Pepper Wet is Georgia creation.
    2. If you want to eat “Yankee” wings created in upstate NY at the Anchor Bar then by all means go ahead but don’t act like they are an institution in these parts.
    3. Was it Sons or Steverino’s that sold the whole wing … not split into flats or drums ? That is the only way wing should be sold.
    4. I make a grilled wings with a BBQ hot sauce that puts all these to shame.
    5. I also make wing that marinated in fish sauce, garlic sauce and hot sauce that are even better.

    Thank you your attention to this matter

    • If you have a good smoker, you can kill a fried wing in competition easily. The right sauce, chefs kiss.

      Answer to number 3 I believe was Steverinos. Don’t remember that at Sons.

    • Steverinos.

      They ran a copupn in the TANSAAFL and Red and Black Coupon Survival Kit for 10 cent wings. That and pitchers on treh deck bring back memories.

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