Buffalo Wild Wings’ New Drink Won’t Be For Everyone

While fast food chains have been busy releasing holiday menus left, right, and center, Buffalo Wild Wings has been hard at work on something a little different. Sure, Halloween brought an appropriately spooky Halloween menu, but if you were expecting festive wings to drop immediately after those, you’d likely be disappointed. Those may still be coming, of course – but for this week at least, B-Dubz has chosen to take the pickly path less travelled. 

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Wait. Pickly path? Yes. And it’s not exactly less travelled, because everyone’s still doing it. Allow me to explain. 

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Buffalo Wild Wings has just dropped its new Pickle Menu, which, if it isn’t abundantly clear already, is in harmony with the ongoing pickle trend that simply refuses to go away. It’s also arriving just in time for Pickle Day on November 14, so we’re granting BWW a little more grace here than some of the other places that have thrown pickles on virtually anything they can think of over the last 12 months. At least this one has a corresponding date in the calendar, y’know?

Anyway, let’s talk about this new menu. For a limited time, Buffalo Wild Wings is offering three new items: Pickle Sauce, which adorns its boneless or bone-in pickles, Chipotle BBQ Fried Pickles (which join its standard Fried Pickles), and a Pickle Margarita. Yup. Pickle margaritas. This drink will undoubtedly be the most contentious of the three: Made with Lunazul Blanco Tequila and triple sec, it’s then given an injection of tartness with pickle juice and lime sour, topped with pickles, and served with a Tajín rim. 

Sounds Pretty Acidic…

Yep. That’s what I’m worried about. I can understand how pickle juice might work in a margarita, but my fear here is that it’ll lean too hard into sourness in a drink that’s already tart and heartburn-inducing at the best of times. If BWW isn’t careful, it’s going to have a lot of empty antacid wrappers left on tables for the next few days. 

That said, I’m a big fan of the fact that it’s only $6, and I think the other menu items here sound pretty decent. While I’m as done with the pickle-ification of everything as much as the next person, something about the thought of pickle wings is making my mouth water today. You’ll probably have to hop to it to try them, though, because once November 14 has come and gone, I can’t see them sticking around for much longer.