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Next hot thing in hot wings, 'trashed' or 'dirty,' breaks the rules of America's favorite bar food

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January 5, 2024

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America’s hottest hot-wing trend is garbage.

Bar-food aficionados can’t wait to take it out or enjoy it at the bar with a few cold beers.

Trash wings are a popular style of chicken wing served at pubs and restaurants in and around St. Louis, Missouri. The same style of fried chicken is called dirt wings in Connecticut.

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Trash or dirt wings are fried, doused in hot sauce — then fried again. The process creates delectable little poultry limbs with skin so crispy that it snaps when you bite into it. Yet the meat remains juicy inside.

They’ve grown into casual culinary traditions in both parts of the country over the past three decades.

Zach Jalbert, a customer at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, called its locally famous trash wings “beautiful.” (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

“I like to then re-dip the wings in whatever sauce is available,” Zach Jalbert, a customer at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, told Fox News Digital.

“Look at that! It’s beautiful. Wow!” Jalbert added, holding up a wing in front of his eyes before crunching into it.

“Look at that! It’s beautiful. Wow!” — Zach Jalbert, trash wing enthusiast

Trash or dirt wings appear poised to break out as a national phenomenon in 2024 — while disrupting 60 years of American culinary tradition established when Buffalo wings were first fried in Buffalo, New York in 1964.

“I love it when people step outside the box,” America’s “Wing King” and Buffalo native Drew Cerza, founder of the National Buffalo Wing Festival, told Fox News Digital.

Dirt wings are a Connecticut casual-dining tradition that originated in the 1990s at J. Timothy’s Taverne in Plainville. The wings are fried, sauced, refrigerated, then fried and sauced a second time when they’re ordered. (Courtesy J. Timothy’s Taverne)

“That’s how cool new things are created.”

Trash wings earned their name because cooking the saucy once-fried wings again “trashes the oil.”

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J. Timothy’s Taverne in Plainville, Connecticut, is the birthplace of dirt wings.

The bar-food favorite boasts a more personal origin story that “came about just by dumb luck,” said beverage director Rino Ouellet.

“Wing King” Drew Cerza proclaims Miki Sudo the victor over Joey Chestnut at the 2022 National Buffalo Wing Festival. Sudo ate 233 chicken wings in 12 minutes, to 224 for Chestnut. (Courtesy Drew Cerza)

J. Timothy’s fielded a beer-league softball team when it opened nearly 30 years ago.

“We were all in our 20s. The oldest guy on the team, our pitcher, was in his 40s. We called him Dirt,” said Ouellet.

The pitcher was, to the rest of the players, older than dirt.

“The trashed wing is a phenomenal culinary delight and is now synonymous with St. Louis.” — Pat Imig, Imig Communications

One day, the oft-told tale goes, Dirt ordered wings at the bar and stepped out to have a cigarette.

He returned to the bar and asked for his now-cold wings to be reheated.

They were an instant sensation.

Trash wings at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri. Double-fried trash wings are a culinary tradition in and around St. Louis. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

“Pretty soon the entire softball team was coming in asking for Dirt’s wings,” said Oullet.

Dirt wings are now a bar-food favorite at pubs and sports bars across Connecticut.

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Trash wings also appeared in St. Louis about 30 years ago. The simultaneous appearance in New England and along the Mississippi River of the similar wings appears to be complete coincidence.

Fenton’s touts itself as the “home of the trashed wing.”

But St. Louis magazine reports they were invented elsewhere.

Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, outside St. Louis, is a popular destination for trash wings. A local culinary tradition, trash wings are fried, sauced and then fried again, making for a crispy wing that’s moist inside. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

“My father started doing trashed wings 30 years ago at one of his restaurants, Frankie G‘s Grill and Bar in Oakville,” Billy Gianino Jr., of Billy G’s in Kirkwood, told the outlet in 2022.

The story claims that Fenton’s general manager Chuck Nash “semi-corroborated Gianino’s story.”

“The trashed wing is a phenomenal culinary delight and is now synonymous with St. Louis casual cuisine,” Pat Imig of Imig Communications, a local food insider and chicken-wing aficionado, told Fox News Digital.

Trash wings served at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri; and Fenton manager Kelly Brannam. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)

After achieving local stardom in Connecticut and Missouri, dirt and trash wings have recently appeared on menus in Chicago, New York City — and even as far away as London.

A similar twice-cooked wing is found in Buffalo, New York — except these are finished on a grill after being fried and sauced, said Cerza.

Double-fried wings “break the cardinal rule of wings here in Buffalo,” claims the keeper of the city’s storied wing-tradition.

But, he added, “there are no rules when you’re creating new rules.”

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Boston, MA

Charlotte plays Boston on 5-game win streak

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March 4, 2026

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Charlotte plays Boston on 5-game win streak

Charlotte Hornets (31-31, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Boston Celtics (41-20, second in the Eastern Conference)

Boston; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST

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BOTTOM LINE: Charlotte is looking to keep its five-game win streak alive when the Hornets take on Boston.

The Celtics are 27-13 against Eastern Conference opponents. Boston is sixth in the NBA with 46.2 rebounds led by Nikola Vucevic averaging 8.8.

The Hornets are 19-21 in conference matchups. Charlotte is 7-8 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 15.0 turnovers per game.

The Celtics average 15.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 more made shots on average than the 12.8 per game the Hornets allow. The Hornets average 16.0 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.1 more made shots on average than the 13.9 per game the Celtics allow.

TOP PERFORMERS: Jaylen Brown is averaging 29 points, 7.1 rebounds and five assists for the Celtics. Payton Pritchard is averaging 17 points and 5.8 assists over the past 10 games.

Kon Knueppel is averaging 19.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the Hornets. Brandon Miller is averaging 22.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists over the past 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Celtics: 8-2, averaging 109.4 points, 50.7 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 6.1 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 98.5 points per game.

Hornets: 7-3, averaging 117.3 points, 47.8 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 8.5 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.2 points.

INJURIES: Celtics: Jayson Tatum: out (achilles), Neemias Queta: day to day (rest).

Hornets: Coby White: day to day (injury management).

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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Pittsburg, PA

2 young girls found dead in suitcases in Cleveland, police say

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March 4, 2026

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2 young girls found dead in suitcases in Cleveland, police say

The bodies of two young girls were found inside suitcases in Cleveland, Ohio, police said on Tuesday.

In a press conference, Cleveland Police Chief Dorothy Todd said on Tuesday that the bodies of the two girls were found in suitcases buried in shallow graves on Monday evening. One of the girls was believed to be between the ages of 8 and 13 years old, while the other was believed to be 10 to 14 years old. Neither girl was identified as of Tuesday night.

“This is a priority,” Todd said during Tuesday’s press conference. “This is a traumatic event for our officers, for the community, and this is just such a tragic incident, but we are trying to develop any leads we can.”

Police said there are no active missing persons reports in Cleveland that match the two victims.

Officials said someone walking their dog near East 162nd Street and Midland Avenue found what appeared to be a body inside a suitcase around 6 p.m. on Monday. When officers responded to the scene near Ginn Academy, they found one of the bodies stuffed in a suitcase in a shallow grave. The second shallow grave with the body stuffed in a suitcase was found after officers searched the area.

“This is a field close to the school over there,” Todd said. “This is just a residential neighborhood that I’m sure a lot of people do frequent.”

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office has custody of the bodies and will identify the girls. Todd said there is no clear indication of possible causes of death for the girls or how long the girls were there.

“It was some time, so it’s not something that was recent,” Todd said.

There is no suspect, Todd added. Anyone with information can contact the Cleveland police at 216-623-5464.

“Usually in residential areas, you know what’s happening in your neighborhood, something just seems a little bit off,” Todd said. “That’s why we’re asking that anyone who has anything that they believe to be information directly related to or suspicious, that they give us a call.”

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Connecticut

Multiple cars involved in crash on I-84 in Hartford

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March 4, 2026

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Multiple cars involved in crash on I-84 in Hartford

A multi-vehicle crash temporarily close Interstate 84 on Tuesday night.

The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. and involved four cars, according to the Hartford Fire Department.

Fire crews arrived at the scene and helped one of the drivers who was trapped. The driver was then taken to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment.

Four other people reported minor injuries but declined ambulance treatment at the scene, officials said.

I-84 East was temporarily shut down as crews responded but has since reopened.

The Connecticut State Police is investigating the crash.

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