Gloria Gaynor, Chicken Wings

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Forty years ago, disco queen Gloria Gaynor won a Grammy for I Will Survive, a universally relatable anthem that's still blasted and belted out at pride parades and karaoke parties and inside showers and cars the world over. Now she's back with a new album, Testimony, that's been nominated for two Grammys. Gloria grew up surrounded by good music and good food and despite being poor, neighbors would crowd around her dining room table to enjoy the humble spread and fantastic company her mother provided.

Gloria wants chicken wings for her last meal, so we dig into the history of the Buffalo wing with Anchor Bar, an 85 year old institution in Buffalo, New York. Anchor Bar's owner took a seemingly worthless chicken part and turned it into a finger lickin' snack that Americans can't get enough of, especially over Super Bowl Weekend.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
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0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle.
0:29.5	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.6	Today on the program, Disco Queen and Grammy-nominated gospel singer Gloria Gaynor.
0:36.9	It was 40 years ago that Gloria won a Grammy for her hit anthem, I Will Survive.
0:42.5	And now her new album, Testimony, is nominated for two Grammy Awards, Best Roots Gospel album and Best Gospel Performance Song. Obviously, Gloria is hoping to take home a couple of Grammy Award statues this weekend.
1:08.1	I've been waiting all these years to balance out my piano because the one that I
1:12.2	got in 1980 is sitting on the piano, lonely and alone. Yeah, I need some company. Well, maybe you'll
1:20.3	have three and then you need to get a fourth one, so it'll be really even. Oh, no, no, no, because honey,
1:24.2	the triangle is the strongest shape in nature.
1:32.8	That's like a slice of pizza. Maybe that's why I like pizza so much. It's a very strong triangle shape. And just in time for the Super Bowl, the history of Buffalo chicken wings with
1:39.4	Anchor Bar, the Buffalo New York restaurant that claims to have invented them.
1:43.7	You know, we go through about 2,000 pounds of wings a day.
1:47.4	But first, my chat with Gloria Gaynor.
1:59.0	So I just wanted to tell you, I realized yesterday that it's been 20 years since I did a road trip with my girlfriend.
2:05.9	We were 19 years old and we were going from California to Connecticut.
2:09.4	And we were in New Orleans.
2:10.7	It was the first time I was ever there.
2:12.2	Ended up at night at the Cats Meow doing karaoke for the very first time.
2:16.6	And we did, I will survive.
2:18.7	So I always, you're like a part of my story because I love karaoke.
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