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Teresa and frank Belissimo.

There are four different legends about how Buffalo wings came to be

The first story is that Buffalo wings were first prepared  by Teressa Belissimo, who owned the bar along with her husband Frank. Upon the unannounced, late-night arrival of their son, Dominic, with several of his friends from college, Teressa needed a fast and easy snack to present to her hungry guests. It was then that she came up with the idea of deep frying chicken wings (normally thrown away or reserved for stock) and tossing them in cayenne hot sauce.

• A second version, as told by Dominic Bellisimo (Frank and Teressa's son)  in 1980, stated: "It was Friday night in the bar and since people were buying a lot of drinks he wanted to do something nice for them at midnight when the mostly Catholic patrons would be able to eat meat again." He stated that it was his mother, Teressa, who came up with the idea of chicken wings.

• The third version of the origin involved a mis-delivery of wings instead o fbacks and necks for making the bar's spaghetti sauce. Faced with this unexpected resource, Frank Belissimo says that he asked Teressa to do something with them.

• The fourth version has nothing to do with the Bellisimos . Calvin Trillin stated in his 1980 New Yorker article that a man named John Young also claimed credit for serving chicken wings in a special "mambo sauce". Chicken wings in mambo sauce became the specialty at his Buffalo restaurant in the mid-1960s. Young had registered the name of his restaurant John Joung Wings' and Things at the County Courthouse before leaving Buffalo in 1970.