I know I saw Dave Foley do it on Kids In The Hall once, I’ve heard of it from Canadian folks, but my fiancee won’t buy it. I know ya’ll are up there, dunking your wings into your mugs of beer - aren’t you??
I know it’s not **all ** Canadians, just like not **all ** of us down here in the States put lemon in our beverages for no damn good reason.
What the hell are you talking about? Ew. I’ve never seen such a thing.
You can get some mighty tasty Buffalo style chicken wings, and out East they put donair sauce on just about everything, but why wreck your beer like that?
Never seen it done. Kids in the Hall is a parody show, so I wouldn’t take that as a fact.
Are there any dips that use alcohol?
Well… alcoholics…
Never seen it either - ranch dressing for a dip or blue cheese dressing but not beer.
Why would a Canadian want to ruin their beer with bits of food in it?
Of course not. Dipping wings in beer would ruin perfectly good beer.
I say, why wreck your chicken like that? Your location’s not lised anywhere, so I dug around and saw you’re in TO; maybe it’s a provincial thing? Maybe Newfies do it?
The only weird food thing my friends out East do (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI, I only know one Newfie and she’s on maternity leave) is put donair sauce on pizza and most other things. Never seen them dip anything in their beer and never heard of it either. Never seen it or heard of it when I was in Quebec, although they eat weird stuff around maple syrup season.
I can ask a freind of mine who used to live way up in Northern Ontario, that’s a little backwoodsy.
Kids in the Hall is a parody show. They’d just as likely dip their wings in Tim Horton’s coffee. I honestly can’t imagine any Canadian befouling their beer with any foreign, non-beer substance – in fact I think there are criminal charges for that.
From Wiki - ‘Donair sauce is made of evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic.’ Sounds like weak ranch dressing to me, which I’ve seen folks here in the States put on pizza, wings, etc, the weirdos. (Gotta get that much more fat in your diet, eh kids?)
Blech. I’d rather drink beer with chicken in it.
Yecch. Wings & Beer is an institution, but never the twain shall meet. Not until they’re safely tucked away in my gut. Wings and some sort of nice hot sauce or New York Butter or mesquite or honey garlic, absolutely. Hey, even beer-battered wings are fine, but that’s about the only place where the two meet up-close and personal prior to consumption.
Hey, uh … anyone wanna go for wings?
Out here, some folks like to put some tomato or clamato juice in their beer, and call it a Calgary Red-Eye or somesuch. Weird, if you ask me, but they seem to like it. Anyway, that’s the strangest foreign non-beer substance I’ve ever seen put into a beer. But it’s sure not a chicken wing covered in some sort of sauce.
We only usually dip chicken wings into beer on Canada Day only. July 1st is also traditionally celebrated by making moose sculptures out of pykrete, fishing for muskellenge and drinking “Sir John Eh MacDonald” cocktails (made of Canadian rye whiskey, Bovril, pablum and ginger ale).
I’ve lived in northern Ontario. It would be as blasphemous there as it is here (southern ON)
Not only might it ruin the brew (esp. if Buffalo sauces have already been applied), but it would do very little for the wings, except possibly make 'em lukewarm and bland.
(Hmm. I think I’m beginning to understand why Canadians are the subject of this legend.)
Greasy food at that. There’s a reason bars have a bowl of pretzels, not potato chips – grease wrecks beer.
Canadians have a reasonable sense of humour. I suspect they just did it when they knew people from the States would be watching so you’d copy them and then they could laugh.
That’s what I figured. But I thought maybe fumes from the slag had caused some kind of brain damage that would make the far northerners want to wreck their beer.
Location:Toronto(ish)
I was shocked to see Dupree in the movie ‘You, Me and Dupree’ dunking his wings in a glass of milk. I assume that it was done for the eeeeewwww factor, either that or because it was breakfast. Either way, it was the first time I had considered that wings would be dunked in a drink of any kind.
Like the US, the dip served with wings is usually Blue Cheese dressing.
Of course, that said, I have seen instances where beer has been ‘doped’. I’ve got an uncle out west who would put a sprinkle of salt in his beer. I don’t know why…
I’ve done this occasionally with draft beer when it’s not as fresh as it might be, and is on its way to becoming flat without actually being flat. That’s a lousy way to describe when I’d use salt, but the idea is that the salt (just a pinch so the beer doesn’t taste salty) helps to get the beer’s carbonation working, so the beer doesn’t taste as flat as it looks.
No. Never. Ever. We appreciate spicy wings as much as y’all down there. And probably appreciate our beer slightly more.