- You'll become a man today.
- Normally I would finish this.
- [Ashley] Yeah.
- This is what I would go for
with some bleu cheese not ranch.
- No.
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
two people come in,
two meals are swapped,
number one takes home the final glory.
Who will win Meal Swap?
Mumbo wings vs. buffalo sauce.
Hailing from the DMV area,
we have Ashley.
From Rochester, New York,
defending his college town sauce,
we have Q.
- Today we're gonna be swapping wings.
We're gonna see which area has the better wings.
- D.C. has the better wing.
- I'm going to have to say upstate New York,
Buffalo definitely got the best wings.
- I'm gonna say D.C.,
because there's no other place that has these wings.
You can get buffalo wings anywhere.
So, I'm a little partial to my own.
- I think that's kind of like giving me
you know, the win
because you can get them anywhere
which means that we scaled up.
- No.
This is a legacy that can only be found
in the DMV
which means you have to travel far and wide
to get this delicacy.
- Yeah.
- That's special.
You have to go to Barack Obama's area
of the D.C. area to get these wings.
They're presidential wings.
He's had these wings.
- No, I ain't gonna say nothing about that.
I respect that.
You know all shouts out to Obama.
I'm gonna go back to my point.
This is why you have a flag representing
one area,
this flag represents the U.S.A.
Because we spreading, baby.
We doing this for real.
- You are spreading,
however with these wings,
comes culture,
comes history.
It is Gogo music,
it is Ben's Chili Bowl,
it's U Street,
it is PG County.
Like these wings have so much in them.
- Interesting.
Wait, so what kind of wings is it?
Tell me about these wings.
- So these wings are called mumbo sauce wings.
Yeah, mhmm, mhmm,
see that, yeah, see that, see that.
So, these wings are a secret sauce
and you can't really get them anywhere.
You can only get it at the carry-out stores in D.C.
That's how much of a delicacy it is,
that Barack Obama went to a carry-out
to eat these wings.
It's chicken wings with mumbo sauce
and typically they're served with crinkle cut fries.
- All that being said,
they look great,
I was licking my lips while you said it.
But these
are the buffalo wings that everybody knows and loves.
Football on Sunday,
with the family on Monday.
- You can have the buffalo wings any day,
anywhere.
But this is like Thanksgiving Day wings,
like you know you're not gonna get your mama's
like sweet potato pie every single day.
I give respect to the buffalo wings.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause, you know, they hold you down on Super Bowl Sunday.
- That's all I'm saying.
So, I grew up in upstate New York.
I went to Buffalo for college for four years.
I mean legend has it that the actual buffaloes
grew wings
which is why...
- (laughing)
- The buffaloes grew wings
and flew from Buffalo around the nation
and that's how it spread.
- I love it.
- And-
- I can't compete with magical animals.
(bell ringing)
- This just here is just a little hometown wing
that Barack Obama has had.
It's like a rights of passage.
When you're in high school,
you know you've made it when you successfully
ordered Kenny's carry-out
and had it delivered to the back door of the gym
because you're not supposed to have food
coming from off campus.
- I mean I think buffalo sauce is gonna win
because it's kind of bringing together
the best condiments we have.
So, pretty much it's like some hot sauce,
you got some butter,
heat it up, mix it up.
How can you beat it?
It look great.
But these aren't how they usually come.
Usually there's no bread on here.
But listen,
I'm ready to turn into a man today.
- Yes.
- Let's see what's going on.
(bell ringing)
- All right let's do it.
You'll become a man today.
These are regular buffalo wings.
You see like a little bit of that hot sauce right there.
I see it.
But it's not like dripping in sauce,
but they look good.
It looks like the essence of a good chicken wing.
- Mumbo wings look pretty solid.
I can't lie,
I'm not like a super saucy type of guy.
It smells really good.
It actually reminds me of a sauce we have
in Rochester, New York where I was born
called Country Sweet Sauce.
Very thick, very sweet.
It looks just like that.
So, yeah, this looks pretty solid.
I think I'm gonna enjoy this for sure.
It's like a sweet and sour type of thing.
It's pretty good.
It's like a lick your fingers type of vibe, you know?
- That's the thing I'm missing with this one,
the lick your fingers vibe.
It's still a good chicken wing.
- You can talk and lick your finger, you know,
it makes you feel like we're bonding.
- Yeah, like we're doing something.
- Like I could show you my vulnerable side.
- Okay, okay.
- I'm vulnerable.
I'm a vulnerable man.
- I'm a vulnerable man eating these chicken wings.
- I lick my fingers sometimes.
Okay I want to put a disclaimer.
I'm gonna shoot this away
because I want to get to another wing
but normally I would finish this.
- Yeah, were not leaving, you know, just--
- I don't want none of that energy.
- Of saying I don't know how to eat a chicken wing.
- Like I don't know how to finish my wing, yeah.
Because that's a thing.
It's pretty good.
- My heart is smiling.
- I'm not gonna lie,
it's good.
I'm not gonna lie though,
I would take Country Sweet over this sauce.
- (gasps)
- Don't kill me, D.C.
'cause this is great
but Country Sweet back home, it's really good,
it's like, this is super sweet.
This is like more of like a sweet and sour.
So, I'm not mad.
- So, the buffalo wings do taste a little typical
buffalo wing-ish.
They're spicy,
they're breaded.
It's just missing that extra oomph.
Like they could have doused it one more time with the sauce.
- With some sauce?
I hear you,
that look a little dry.
- A little dry.
Just needs that little oompf
and so I kind of wanna have one of my own wings now.
- Let's swap.
My hand, my hands--
You see your hands.
- This is what I'm talking about.
- See that is how you know you've made it.
When your hands are just like--
- I'm a man now.
- You in it.
You a man now.
You in it.
- I'm a vulnerable man.
- This is like coming home.
- I'm not gonna lie,
these are good.
They're buttery.
Even though, like,
the spiciness isn't there
but you can taste that butter in there.
If I had to choose,
even though I did like that.
I liked it a lot.
This is what I would go for.
With some bleu cheese, not ranch.
- No.
I thought I converted him guys.
- I liked them.
I did like it,
but this is just like, this reminds me of back home.
- I thought we were having a full on.
There's no discussion that chicken wings in mumbo sauce.
I thought it was a win.
You know, I will be happy
and content eating my own wings
and declaring my own personal victory.
- So, you prefer those?
- Mhmm. I'm gonna eat these.
- We ain't gotta talk no more.
- Nope. Uh-uh.
- It's a draw.
Wait do you eat bleu cheese or ranch?
- Ranch.
- That was pretty good.
Both of them were pretty solid.
I thought the mumbo wings,
they were sweet and sour
but it was like a nice like bit of both.
I liked it a lot.
And I felt like if it was fresh
some curly fries.
- I will say that if it was fresh, yes.
We are in California.
Shout out to the home team who over-nighted this sauce.
If it was fresh,
you probably would have like a different opinion.
So, next time you're in D.C.
I will direct you to the proper carry-out.
For buffalo wings,
they were a good wing.
They were buttery,
they were spicy.
However, I just wanted that extra dunk of sauce.
Like I am a saucy person
metaphorically, physically, theoretically.
I am saucy.
- I agree with you.
It could have used a little more sauce on there.
- Time to declare a winner.
We know where we're going with this winner, right?
- I know where I'm going.
- D.C.
- Buffalo wings.
Whoa, are you serious?
- Yes, I've gotta go with the home team.
It's the sauce,
it's the finger licking.
You were licking your fingers.
That is like a sign that says this is a good wing.
- It's also a sign,
but it's also like I need to clean my fingers
because that buffalo wing is over there
and I need it.
- [Ashley] No.
- It was one of those.
So, I did like it,
but the buffalo wing was just like,
it was next level.
- But like I would do a rematch
with your sweet and sour sauce.
- You do not want to do that.
- I would do a rematch with the Country Sweet
and see what happens.
- Okay.
Nobody gets this golden fork today.
I'm very sad.
- Can we hold it up together for a tie?
- Yeah.
We go, yes.
We showed off our cities so we can share it.
- But, we need y'all to decide in the comments.
- Yes.
- So, if you're from Buffalo,
upstate New York in general
or just from around the world
'cause y'all know how we do,
make some noise in the comments.
- Or if you have traveled to the nation's capital
and had these wings.
If you are Barack Obama
and want to sound out in the comments
let us know.
- Yo, if Barack Obama make y'all win I'm gonna be so pissed.
- Yes. If he comments,
then I get to be like.
- Yeah, yeah. You got it.
- Barry, let us know.
It's important.
(patriotic band music)