Foodie Friday live in Southington at
Sliders Grilling Bar, and I can't help
but think that if Willy Wonka had decided
to get into the chicken wing business
instead of the chocolate business,
he probably would have come up with sliders.
They have so many flavors of chicken wings,
it all starts with those.
And boy are they getting a whole bunch
of cases ready for the Super Bowl,
because they're going to go.
Straight into the fryer, as you can see
them sizzling out for our purposes.
And then they come out of the fryer and
they get sauced and boy are their sauces.
Dry rubs, wet rubs.
There's mild, there's spicy,
there's Symphony level.
They have all of them here,
dozens and dozens of flavors.
And they better be ready for Super Bowl
because they have 225 wings in every case.
How many cases? Well,
let's just ask the general manager, at least.
Alicia Audi, good morning.
225 chicken wings to a case.
How many cases do you have here?
I have 120. So quick math.
And that's about 28,000 wings.
And that's one of how many sliders.
Sliders out of five.
So they're talking over 100,000 wings.
So how how many flavors do you have?
Do you know them all?
Well, I can't name. I can name them all.
Yeah. Uh-huh. We have over 20. Yeah.
Tell me what are the biggest hits here?
Are traditional mild medium garlic parmesan?
Well, they get crazy some of these flavors.
And what do we have here? Look at these.
Those are our peanut butter and Jelly wing.
Came up with that. Gonna say I don't.
I don't recall. I think there was
a lot of creative minds for that.
This says and each one has a little
sticker on it to tell you that says
filet as in chick fil as in the
enemy we can talk about that tastes
like a Chick-fil-A and then over
here what do we have? Maple bacon. Oh
my God. And of course they have all
the non chicken wing stuff this weekend
but as you get ready for the Super
Bowl because clearly you want to make
everyone happy but you're focusing on
the wings how do you do you ever run out?
Did you see how emphatic she said that?
No way. No. What happens if,
if there's a run, if more more Eagles
and Chiefs fans come in here and they
they they go through 28,000 wings,
that's why she gets paid the big bucks.
Alright, alright, so I already told him,
listen, I'm not Symphony Privett.
I like, I like my wings mild.
So I want to try this one right off the bat.
Maybe I'll work up the medium today,
Tim and Erica,
but that's all you're going to get.
Look at that.
Isn't that the wonderful looking? All right.
Oh, in the that's not even blue cheese.
That's fluff. Oh my gosh.
We're going to have fun.
Here we have.
A lot of wings to go through this
morning and we will foodie Friday
live in Southington at sliders.
Come on back for the 8:00 o'clock hour.
Hmm.
Look. Ohh boy they could.
How could you not if only you can smell this.
Ohh my gosh this is wing Nirvana boy
are we ending wing week on a find out.
And by the way let me show you.
You're seeing the wings.
But those are only a sample of the wings
here at sliders here in Southington.
Look at all the flavors and they
tell you they go from the mild
stuff all the way up to Buffalo.
Insane. And they have sauced wings.
They've got dry.
Web they've covered them all, and I I put.
Alicia Ayuda on the spot a moment ago,
I said.
So how many different flavors of wings and
and fess up on live TV you didn't know?
Dozens and dozens,
39 of them to be exact.
And I love this because on the menu
you actually asked forget the burgers.
You ask how you want your wings done.
Well done, really crispy and extra well done,
because there's a different weather
you have them really dry or not.
And people like the difference,
right?
They do actually tell me about the
flavors that are the big hits here.
Or it's all over the spectrum.
You know I you have some that
are the traditional and they're
the good old standbys like
you know the garlic parmesan,
Buffalo blue cheese and we
have some of our newer ones,
the dry rubs like our sweet old
Bay and then you know our honey
garlic garlic when we actually
those are boneless ones, right.
These are boneless ones with our sweet
chili on the side and it was really good.
So do people migrate to the really
spicy I want to dye wings or the oh.
Mild. I'm just here for enjoyment.
Flavor it's all over and they
have to answer like that.
I like the flavor but no
we we don't put them through
that. Maybe you but not
Speaking of putting them through you've
got cases and cases of wings for Super
Bowl Sunday you've got a limited menu
because if you're coming in here you're
just getting wings again in a couple
of other things and that's it right.
Right. Well we don't do bone and
wings in house. It's all took out
OK and by the way if you want to
get a pre-ordered you could do that.
You cannot walk in no because.
It's too much for them.
It's an all hands on deck thing.
Alright, I gotta eat one of these
while we're up. Yeah, alright,
I'm going for the Buffalo blue cheese.
Where do these fall?
On in in the the mild to hot they're
fairly mild they're not fairly mild
they're not here that Symphony fairly
mild you you could you can handle this.
I can't wait. According to them,
39, but we haven't counted.
And then by the way, you can get
each and every one of those 30 nines,
you can get them cooked a little,
you know, juicier or crispy.
There's like 4 versions,
kind of like burgers,
medium rare, rare, well done.
So 39 * 4. That's a 70.
That's a lot of different ways of wings
that you're going to get here, right?
Alicia?
Audi. Yeah,
tell you the general manager here at sliders,
you are in pregame mode right
now and it's quiet.
It's calm.
When does it start getting crazy for you?
Probably tomorrow night. Tomorrow night.
What's going on? Tomorrow
night before the game,
people will probably start
ordering like trying to get in,
but the very last minute
and and you'll take the orders up
till tomorrow. Yeah, you will.
So people come in and go hey,
can I get a couple of weeks ago?
The answer is no.
It's it's like you snooze, you lose.
And that's a shame,
because these wings are amazing.
39 different flavors.
What are the popular ones?
We're looking at a
couple of them right now.
You know, usually it's our mild
medium or traditional Buffalo, but
you got wild flavors here, too.
Yeah. Good. Parm garlic.
Parm is very popular, right?
Buffalo blue cheese, yes.
Right. And then
you've got PB and J, which I got it.
I gotta tell you that if you're
thinking at home, that sounds nuts.
You gotta come down here and try it.
That is really, really good.
You either really like it,
but the bosses were like, I
don't know about that.
When they put it on the menu,
it was a little scary, but then
you put fluff on it. Right by
the death fluff,
that is not blue cheese, not ranch.
That is marshmallow fluff, that is.
That's just kooky. Alicia,
tell me about the crew here come Sunday.
It's all hands on deck.
And are they ready to rock?
Yes do you do any calisthenics in
the morning to to hold them up.
Ohh yeah yeah throw throw those down.
Look at this more coming out
what do we got here these are
hot and sweet which is one of
our more popular in our honey BBQ
which is one of our more popular
right. And we also have some some
hopefully some tenders are coming
out that will have Raspberry.
What is it flaming Raspberry.
Alright a skill one to 10 how
hot are the flaming Raspberry?
Sneak that my level. My level.
Or if we. All right, well,
we'll we'll we'll let the gang at
station decide which one I should eat.
We'll leave that up to them.
Now, come Sunday,
everyone's going to be here
watching the game.
Except for. Me.
Yes. Wait, wait. You're not gonna
you're not gonna watch the kickoff?
The coin toss, apparently.
What about Rihanna?
I probably, probably not.
When when do you watch the game?
Yeah, the next the DVR. OK, that's alright.
Because you could DVR, because it is here,
right here on on Fox 61.
Tune in for that. All right,
come on, bring those flaming with.
Oh, it's they're not ready yet.
Alright, that's fine.
No problem.
So these smell so good, by the way.
And if you want to know by the way,
Keith and Erica,
they will do approximately 25.
1000 wings.
And that's just here at the
sliders in Southington.
They've got five of them.
That's
125,000 wings, all just for one chain,
one group of restaurants.
Multiply that with all the other
restaurants all around the state,
all around the world.
That's an insane amount of wings.
No, no. This is hot and sweet,
so it's got a little kick to it.
It's definitely sweet
and it's definitely hot.
It's definitely hot. Back to you.
Ohh. These are good. Enjoy.
Sliders in Southington, you know,
they do wings well here,
but do you know how many wings
they do on Super Bowl Sunday?
Take each one of these plates and
multiply it by a couple of 1000.
They're going to do about 25,000 wings.
And that's just that,
the Southington location where
Alicia is the general manager of.
We say good morning to you
and I got to tell you,
you got 25,000 wings and
all these different flavors.
Is it an all hands on deck thing on Sunday?
Yes, yeah, yeah.
How do you prepare for this?
We get 8:00 o'clock in the morning,
get our fryers ready to go, huh. You
do. Your chefs have to do like wing
frying calisthenics down, up, down,
up, pretty much. Yeah.
They work hard that they
tell you what, it's amazing that smells.
You got all different flavors here,
39 in total. What are the big hits
again? I think it depends
on your flavor palette.
You know, some of them like just stay
with their traditional mild garlic,
parmesan, Buffalo blue cheese
and then they branch out to.
Peanut butter and Jelly.
How many of them are extreme?
It could be all
she doesn't know.
So they're all placing wagers.
They're they're prop bets in the back.
How many, how many of their really
spicy wings are going to do what
you see and out and rattle up?
Honey, garlic.
Buffalo blue cheese but you got Old
Bay here and then really fun ones.
I love this one.
Peanut butter and Jelly.
Seriously.
On a wing it works and these are
a big hit garlic parmesan and of
course they have a limited menu on
Sunday but they will have a couple
of non wing stuff if you want.
You know the the cheese steak or the
nachos have got that for you too.
They are going to go in OverDrive
and Alicia tells me the team
will do everything on Sunday
except watch the game come on in.
They'll take preorders as well.
Until Saturday night.
You gotta order them before
Saturday night for foodie.
Friday in Southington at Sliders.
I'm Matt Scott. Guys, back to you.