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Jason Kessler is stuck in L.A. with limited access to the major wing chains in the U.S. Luckily, he's got a computer, a phone and some good ol' fashioned ingenuity to rank chicken wing chains based solely on their websites and a phone call to a randomly selected location in Ohio. Because as we all know, as Ohio goes, so goes the nation. It's time to wing it.

I was reared in The Heart of It All, as the motto goes, learning to love the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals and, above all, the Ohio State Buckeyes. In honor of the basketball team’s trip to the Final Four, here are 20 foods, drinks and restaurants that make the state so great.

The first time I ate a White Castle hamburger I was wildly stoned, the kind of brain-fried high you only get when you’re 17 and sitting in a friend’s car, listening to Built to Spill and cruising around the suburbs with no destination in mind.