EP48: An Australian's Love For American Wings and Salt and Pepper Shakers
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Colin Bettles shares how he found his love for buffalo wings in New York and brought it back to his restaurant in Australia; and Andrea Ludden tells the story of how her mother's salt and pepper shaker collection came to become the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib with Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, |
| 0:16.3 | including your story. Send them to OurAmericanstories.com. That's Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:21.9 | Our next story is a story from a listener from Australia, of all places, and how he came to fall in love |
| 0:28.1 | of the food that is uniquely American, the Buffalo Wing. |
| 0:34.5 | 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. |
| 0:49.9 | At age 20, in 1990, I set off from Perth for a working holiday in the United Kingdom. |
| 0:55.7 | I found my way to be working in a bar in the London suburb of Kensington, |
| 1:01.6 | where I worked in between playing cricket for the London Theatre's Cricket Club, among others. |
| 1:08.1 | And in that bar, we mingled with students from all over the world and you know we gained a |
| 1:12.7 | different tuition on on each other's worlds over a few beverages at the bar of course and during this time |
| 1:21.3 | i made some very good friends so um i didn't have any great conviction about where i was going to |
| 1:26.9 | travel to while i was on my working holiday. |
| 1:30.3 | And so I decided to go to the US and visit some of these friends that I'd made while working in the bar. |
| 1:36.3 | And my first stop was to stay with a guy named James who I'd met, who was attending a place called Colgate University in a small college town called Hamilton |
| 1:46.1 | in upstate New York. James lived across the road from a place called the old pizza |
| 1:54.1 | pub. Now my very first night that I stayed and they treated me to Buffalo wings from there and I'd never had them before |
| 2:03.1 | in my life. In fact I've never even heard of them before and they didn't have to do much to convince |
| 2:08.2 | me to try them and as they say it was love at first bite. I was hooked on this new taste sensation |
| 2:14.9 | straight away. What I remember most about that first time experience was the tenderness of the chicken |
| 2:20.2 | that fell off the bone. |
| 2:22.4 | It didn't require, or virtually required no chewing of the chicken meat. |
| 2:27.2 | And of course the tangy hot flavour sensation that exploded in my mouth. |
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