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March052009

Native New Yorker: Calvin Trillin Saw You Coming

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Martin Schneider writes:

As I've mentioned many times by now, I've been monitoring a Twitter search feed lately. Of course there are plenty of tweets that are irrelevant, referring to someone behaving "like a New Yorker" or some such. Which is fine. But there's a restaurant based in Phoenix, Arizona, called the Native New Yorker that specializes in buffalo chicken wings and has taken to Twitter promotion in a big way, which means that I periodically get tweets like this:

NativeNY_HQ HOW MANY WINGS CAN YOU EAT? WWW.BATTLEOFTHEBONE.COM Native New Yorker's 2nd annual chicken wing eating contest starts 3/11 in TEMPE

I must say, I'm halfway tempted to go over and check that out. I know Calvin Trillin would be intrigued, which is why I sent them a little tweet linking them to Trillin's classic article on buffalo chicken wings.

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