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This one is funny, the history doesn't really matter, but might as well throw it out there.

Buffalo wings are named after the city Buffalo in New York State. It's that spicy buttery style of baked on sauce that got popular and spread around.

You could obviously bread and bake the sauce onto anything, I like it on potatoes. It's a funny modifier, because it's sort of the sauce, it's sort of the preparation, like you might say cajun style, but the phrase only seems to be used around wings.

Buffalo cauliflower makes sense to me, but I internalized the word differently.



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