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Chicken wings are one of those food things I just don't get. I'd rather have boneless wings or the drumsticks as was mentioned upthread, rather than gnawing on a pile of greasy, gristly wings with very little food payoff.
...with very little food payoff. LOL Well put and I agree.
I'm sure everyone has seen that term before: "boneless wings". Many places from casual dining restaurants to fast food joints to dive bars, use that term on their menu when they serve those things. But far more often than not, they aren't wings at all, despite being served with sauce and blue cheese (or ranch). At best, they're chicken tenders of a similar shape made of solid breast meat. At worst, they're highly processed chicken nuggets that look nothing like wings. Maybe Pizza Hut's Bone-Out Wings are actual chicken wings with the bones extracted (correct me if I'm wrong), in which case, the term would be 100% accurate. But most restaurants don't do that. Usually, it's just tenders or nuggets.
I can't be the only one who thinks there's some falsehood, not to mention a contradiction, in the term "boneless wings". (When they're not actual wings with the bones removed.) Agree or disagree? It could be just a marketing term, but still.
Uh... because they're meant to be eaten in the manner that wings are? In other words, as just a snack, with a dip?
What next? Complaining that Chicken McNuggets aren't really 'nuggets'? That there's no fruit in fruits de la mer?
C'mon. You know what it is. Look, I don't like boneless wings. I'd rather gnaw the chicken off the actual wing-bones. So I buy real wings. Is this really that hard? Are you constantly being duped by the 'boneless wings' label? If so, dude, then you have bigger problems. If not... then what's the problem?
Next thing you know, you'll be claiming that the 12-pack of drumsticks is misleading 'cause there's no twelve-legged chickens!
That's ridiculous. It never occurred to me until I saw this thread that anyone would not take the term literally. I certainly did. The people marketing these things surely expected people to think they were wings with the bones removed; otherwise they would have called them chicken nuggets or tenders or whatever.
I don't think the op is taking it literally.
I think he doesn't understand why they don't just call them nuggets.
I don't think the op is taking it literally.
I think he doesn't understand why they don't just call them nuggets.
you are right... ..but the boneless wings aren't round like a nugget..
here is the reason in one sentence
boneless wings" has a better marketing sound than "mechanically separated shaped and formed chicken "
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