The National Chicken Wing Day is a "holiday" of sorts celebrated annually on July 29. While many may have taken part in the celebration by simply going to their local Wing Stop or making their own special wings, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have taken their love for the food to a whole different level.
On Thursday, the singer posted a video via Instagram showing him in a pool, beside a floatie with wife Chrissy Teigen wearing a black one-piece bathing suit on top, according to Food Beast. The best part - Chrissy Teigen has a plate of hot wings atop her rump which Legend tries to eat.
The supermodel also posted the video on her Instagram account, according to Billboard.
In the saucy video, Chrissy Teigen kept teasing her husband by skilfully moving the plate of chicken wings, twerking the plate out of the "All of Me" singer's reach without so much as a single drop of spilled sauce, described Cosmopolitan.
"What's up chicken butt," Teigen wrote on her Instagram post.
The National Chicken Wing Day was proclaimed by Buffalo Mayor Stan Makowski in 1977.
On the holiday's website, chicken wings are described as the most versatile protein on the planet and one of the most loved foods by Americans. Just the Super Bowl weekend alone, 1.23 billion wings, over 100-million pounds, have reportedly been consumed. In 2013, more than 27 billion chicken wings were eaten in the United States.
Buffalo, New York is the birthplace of the chicken wing, which is why it has been named Buffalo wings. The history of the chicken wing began with Teressa Bellissimo, who created them at the Anchor Bar, which she owns together with husband Frank. Bellissimo created the chicken wings since her son Dominic and some of his college friends wanted to eat a late night snack.
In 1964, chicken wings were reportedly served with up stock, but when Teressa deep-fried some chicken wings and tossed them in butter and hot sauce to create a fast and easy snack for her son and his friends, the buffalo wings was born.
Following their success, restaurateur John Young opened Wings'n Things on Jefferson Avenue in 1963, but he made his wings breaded with sauce that's tomato-based. Other restaurants started popping up in 1969. In a few years, the City of Buffalo decided to declare July 29 the National Chicken Wing Day.
During the "holiday's" proclamation, it was noted that "thousands of pounds of chicken wings are consumed by Buffalonians in restaurants and taverns throughout the city each week."
The sheer number of wings consumed by the country speaks for why there is such a celebration, and a video such as John Legend's and Chrissy Teigen's.