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Why Buffalo Chicken Rules

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Alright, this is just a quick shoutout to remember that Buffalo Chicken Calzones are the greateast food on earth and you need to be eating them more and more.

If you try and encrust this in macadamia nuts, I will kick you in the nuts.

If you try and encrust this in macadamia nuts, I will kick you in the nuts.

Here is an excerpt from some jabroni that doesn’t know anything about food. They are reviewing the top 10 places in the USA to get either steak or seafood.  One of those places happens to be right here in Boston. lets check it out.

“We like to start by pairing traditional raw bar selections, such as ceviche three ways, with the sniffle-inducing spiciness of Thai-style lettuce wraps with hot chili sauce. Entrées are generous, and textures, colors and tastes are creatively intermingled on each plate. Dishes may include macadamia-encrusted swordfish, served with slightly chilled soba noodles and crispy spinach that dissolves in your mouth, or dry-aged New York strip sirloin with sweet soy, cilantro, ginger and red chilies, with matchstick potatoes.”

Wow, Really? You would honestly rather have that then a buffalo chicken calzone? Your settling into your couch on a nice crisp autumm sunday to watch some football and you would want to eat chilled soba noodles and crispy spinach? STOP IT.

Looks, maybe I take that new york stip sirloin and throw it in the calzone drenched in franks red hot, but if you put any sweet soy or thai lettuce wraps within a mile of me , I’ll probably throw up.  Plus, can you eat all that with your hands? Wheres the side cup of dipping sauce? Exactly, Now George may not technically be a 5 star chef, but in my book he can make me a calzone whenever he pleases.

Seriously, step up, what the hell is “ceviche”?

Tune in next week when we break down why a buffalo chicken calzone is the world’s greatest hangover food.

“crispy spinach that dissolves in your mouth” – Cotton Candy dissolves in my mouth too, but I stopped eating that years ago. Leave a comment if your with me, gimme a little A-Men!

How Many Calories In A Buffalo Calzone?

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Buffalo Chicken Calzone is back and will be attempting to make more regular posts. Don’t worry we are still eating more calzones than is healthy, we just need to post more! Thanks.

The Worlds Greatest Question?

The Worlds Greatest Question?

Scholars have debated for centuries about just how many calories are in a buffalo chicken calzone. Now, when you think about just how big and delicious some of these items are, it makes you really wonder. Clearly buffalo calzones are more of a religious food and you shouldn’t be eating them if your worried about calories. Plus depending on just how big, or what type of chicken and cheese are used in the recipe can make all the difference.

Lets break down a large calzone from Georges Pizza in Natick.

Bread: The Shell that forms around all of the other calories, contains perhaps the most calories of the zone. The bread is that deliciously bad for you full of carbs kind and when lightly toasted creates the worlds most beautiful resting place for buffalo. Now, I would say on a small it is around 500-700 calories, But for a diesel large its gotta be 1500 just to be safe. Oh yeah, its COVERED IN CHEESE.

Bread – 1500 Cals , great start here

Chicken: Some restaurants have chosen to use white meat chicken in their calzones which is an absolute joke. If im gonna be eating 4 times my recommended daily caloric intake, it better be some chicken fingers in that bad boy.

Chicken: White – 1,000, Fingers 1,500 (Both are smothered in sodium anyway)

Cheese: Some on the outside, LOTS on the inside. I mean the whole things a cheese. I’ve even asked for extra cheese just to be a total asshole. Clearly, its dominant because the number one pick in our calzone draft always seems to be the one with a beautiful layer of cheese resting on top. This can’t be good.

Cheese – 500 (I hope)

Buffalo Sauce- Now franks red hot uses to its advantage a law that says less than 5ml serving size can contain no calories. So if you look at Franks and it has less than 5 calories per TINY serving, its listed as 0. DANGEROUS. Seeing as how I drank nearly a gallon in 2 months and I know that stuff has enough sodium to make the Dead Sea jealous. (But I guess no calories!)

Buffalo Sauce – 0! joking probably 100

Blue Cheese- The final monstrosity of the calzone is the blue cheese. A small comes with one dipping cup and a large with 2. Now blue cheese is insanely creamy and delicious however, its not exactly health food. While the mold helps me fight of disease and taste great its probably running at 500 calories per dipping cup. Eat a large and try not to use both, oh you did? Liar

Blue cheese – Somewhere between 500 and 1,000 depending on how hard your self medicating and hate yourself.

So lets take a tally at the numbers we have for a large calzone!

Bread – 1500

Cheese – 1,000

Chicken - 1,500

Sauce- 100 probably more like 250

Blue Chese 500 – 1,000

Total – 5,000 Depending on just how stuffed and delicious your calzone is, it probably packs in 5,000 calories. If your a chronic dipper, this can really add to your intake. One good thing is Georges in not open late which means you can avoid eating this meal while hammered and adding on to your 1,500 calories from drinking.

However this raises another question that scholars have debated for years and even got an egyptian pharoh killed back in the day.

Are Buffalo Chicken Calzones the worlds best hangover food/cure?

Boloco : Buffalo Chicken Burrito

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

First things first, they refer to this item as a wrap on the menu.  I must classify it as a burrito because it has rice in it. Not to mention every other item they sell is a burrito.

What could be in this beatiful gift from the gods?

Anna’s Tacqueria makes the most outstanding burrito’s in the entire Boston area, however the drive takes about 40 minutes. When Boloco was put in town everyone thought, Sweet! Now I have a place to get my fix without the drive.

Quickly people realized that while Boloco would suffice it was nothing out of this world. We were expecting it to compete with the cities best burrito producer and naturally the expectations were too great. Boloco instead offers delicious wraps if you know what to look for and skip the traditional mexican style burrito.

How does this all relate to buffalo chicken?

The item that wasn’t overhyped turned out to be the best of them all. The buffalo chicken wrap at boloco infuses a very good buffalo flavor with delicious blue cheese, celery, rice and chicken. You can also get this item with steak but this website isn’t called buffalo steak calzone.com now is it? jk, I will often get steak every 3rd burrito.

burritoclose

For a “health hack” I often get the wheat tortilla and brown rice to go along with it. I immediatly cancel it out by asking for extra chicken and having three ladel scoops of buffalo sauce on it. They always look at me like are you sure you really want 3 scoops and I give them the nod and say do it, do it!

Overall, Boloco offers a variety of flavors which can deliver. While the traditional burrito is delicious for people who have never left the town, the world offers more. (Its like me saying anna’s is the best when I haven’t been to texas or LA to SD area in california.)

However, I feel the buffalo chicken burrito when made with love, care and adult supervision truly delivers one of the most unique buffalo chicken experiences out there!

Where ZFarls "Does Work"

Where ZFarls "Does Work"

I used to always order 2 but now I just get one large with extra meat. Paying for your own health insurance will do that to a man.

Boloco is also one of those new and hip companies where you can order online and track calories which is nice. I will pick up these bad boys for the office lunches and the menu is vast enough to please nearly everyone. They have good chips and salsa/guac if your into that as well. They will also do free promotions and I have even adopted aborted burrito orders a few times. They are friendly and do things right and business is like tennis, those who serve well win. I look to keep boloco as part of my diet in the future!

This was a free one and not "on steroids" as I usually order them. Still delicious!

This was a free one and not "on steroids" as I usually order them. Still delicious!


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Restaurant Review: Chicken Bone Saloon

Monday, July 20th, 2009

When looking to see whether or not a place is for real, you must judge them on their go to meal. If I reviewed a sub shop and docked them points for offering a poor slice of pizza that just wouldn’t be right.

The Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass is known for its wing flavors and multiple sauces. When you risk your reputation on chicken wings, tenders and beer you better be real careful, but the bone gets the job done.

Pro’s-The “Bone” has an all you can eat chicken wings. (Mon & Wed 8-10, $7) Although the hours have been shuffled to a later start and price has gone up a few bucks, they still do it right. They offer bone-in wings rather than the more typical boneless you often see with all you can eat.

The service can sometimes be a little slow on these nights but the portions are just right. They bring out around 12 wings for the first portion. Once you devour these bad boys and you will, they continually bring out 6-8 wings until you tap out or crap yourself.

One positive of this style is you get to try different flavors. Now, I almost always choose garlic hot for 3 of my 5 selections, but other people may want to switch up more often. They have many great flavors, some of the fan favorites are:

I refuse to rank them because some people don’t like buffalo as much as I do. These are people I refuse to be friends with, but its really a matter of preference.

Garlic Hot may be the most dominant flavor, they are they same as just plain hot but with little garlic specs which give them a delicous twang. Just plain mild is delicious on your 4th batch when your mouth is numb and you just want more meat.

They have solid flavors of BBQ, Honey Mustard and Teryaki but nothing out of this world. Roman always seems to be popular as the wings come tasting like delicous italian dressing. Always a solid 3rd or 5th round order depending on how much you weigh.

Beer- Its cold and bountiful.

Catering- They do a solid job for lunch parties and you can get a few different flavors to please the party. They have a vast menu and while you may want to stick to the safer wing waters, you never know if they have hidden jewels elsewhere on there.

Hours- They are open quite late and do deliver to a limited area.

Fries- They have waffle fries that are amazing. They also come with cheese if your over 200 lbs and gravy if your over 300 lbs.

Cons: Thermonuclear- I’m not scared of hot but when you have to sacrifice the true flavor of buffalo for heat and use a tabasco base then shame on you. If your gonna bring the heat, keep the flavor consistent.

Price- If you miss the all you can eat, then the wings can get a little pricey but overall still worth it for the quality. Beer is a little pricey (no great deals)

Loud- The bands are very good but its a little tight and the music is super loud. Im not gonna pretend about music reverberation or any b.s. but if your there and not drunk or with your grandma and the band is on, your ears will bleed. I just pull the batteries out of grandma’s hearing aids and eat wings until my ears start to ring, plus she always pays. God bless social security.

Overall- The bone offers solid wing sauces and has really grown on me over the past few years of all you can eat. While they have created a small wingopoly over framingham, the new “wings over framingham” should force them to remain on their game. As with all business, competition is a good thing and the more wings I get at a lower price the happier I am, until the next day of course.

Pizza Peddler : Buffalo Chicken Wrap

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Restaurant Review

Buffalo Chicken Wrap
from Pizza Peddler (Natick, MA)


I will add a picture the next time I eat this delicious wrap, this site is turining into a good excuse for me to devour buffalo products!

The Buffalo Chicken Wrap is a fine item and ranks quite highly when done properly. Often times though, places sell wraps that are an absolute abomination to the buffalo chicken market. Girls will order them and say mmm its soo good but really its garbage. Fortunately, Pizza Peddler doesn’t serve one of these.

Pro’s:
Lets start off with the chicken in their wrap. Often I am afraid that ordering a wrap will not fill me up and I will sit and wonder what could have been. Peddler loads up there wrap with 3 full fillets of chicken parm style breast that is fried. Now one thing I like about this is when you order the wrap, you see them grab the pieces of uncooked breast from its holding cell and place it in the frying apperatus. You often burn your mouth from the heat of the food that was cooked live in front of you. There is no bullshit steamed rubber breast from subway with red sauce doused on it. This chicken is the real deal and is ALWAYS consistent.

Yes, I take photos of my victims

Yes, I take photos of my victims

Next strong suit for Peddler is the blue cheese in the wrap. It combines with the buffalo and is just chunky enough for the perfect consistency. Often it makes a sweet pool in the “nub” of the wrap and delivers a creamy explosion on the last bite. Delicious.

The wrap is a pro in the sense that it takes nothing away from this sandwich and is always soft enough to be considered fresh.

*A little user hack I throw in on my wrap is to get the diced pickles added to it. I like the twang and contrast and the diced is better than round pickles on this item.

Con’s-

It may not be your father’s buffalo sauce but once you understand and appreciate it for what it is, this flavor will grow on you. Its more of a sweeter sublte flavor than the all out delicious heat that I am used to.
Pizza Peddler can tend to be on the pricier side of the specturm. I am okay with this however.

Overall- If I have said this once, then I have said it 1,000 times. It is one of my most passionate stances of anything that exists on this earth.
I would rather pay 8.50 for a delicious wrap where I know that quality is going to be consistently delivered than 5 dollars for some bullshit attempt at a sub just because it is only 4-6 dollars. (im not singling out subway.)
When you find an item like this, you save it for special occasions where a normal lunch will just not satisfy you.

8.5/10