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1980s-present - Buffalo-area pizza makers and American sports-bar cooks adapting wing flavors to pizza
Buffalo chicken pizza merges two American party foods: Buffalo wings and pizza. Once wings became a national bar-food favorite, pizza shops and home cooks started using buttery hot sauce instead of tomato sauce and topping pies with chicken and cooling cheese or ranch.
Difficulty
Easy
Prep time
20 minutes
Cook time
15 minutes
Total time
35 minutes
Servings
4 to 6 servings
Region
Buffalo, New York, and American pizza shops
Era introduced
1980s-present
Introduced by
Buffalo-area pizza makers and American sports-bar cooks adapting wing flavors to pizza
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Buffalo chicken pizza is a mashup, not a traditional Italian pie. Its logic is straightforward: use Buffalo wing sauce as the base, add cooked chicken, melt mozzarella over it, then finish with blue cheese, ranch, celery, red onion, or scallions. It belongs to the same sports-bar and delivery-pizza world as barbecue chicken pizza and other late-20th-century specialty pies.
Drafted with Buffalo chicken pizza history context from Franco's Pizza (https://francospizza.com/blog/history-of-buffalo-chicken-pizza-buffalo-ny/), recipe method context from An Affair from the Heart (https://anaffairfromtheheart.com/buffalo-chicken-pizza/), and Buffalo wing/pizza pairing context from Italian American Herald (https://italianamericanherald.com/pizza-and-buffalo-wings-the-origins-of-a-classic-american-combo/).
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