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Today's story is about an Australian's love for the American Chicken Wing.

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And now, Monty brings us the story of how Colin Bettels found his passion for wings in upstate New York

and took it with him all the way to Sydney, Australia.

My name's Colin Bettles, I'm 50 years old and currently I live in Sydney, Australia,

which is on the other side of the country, about 4,000 kilometres or 2,500 miles away

from where I grew up in Perth.

At age 20, in 1990, I set off from Perth for a working holiday in the United Kingdom.

I found my way to be working in a bar in the London suburb of Kensington where I worked

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