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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.
In the world of Fast Food, it's become common for companies to sell Chicken Wings, including what they call "Boneless" wings. However, these boneless wings are simply breaded pieces of chicken breast.
But you can easily debone real chicken wings (fried or baked) in just few seconds and enjoy the real, boleness thing: find the end with the protruding cartilage and tear it off. Now, the bones should be a bit loose. Next, wiggle the smaller bone holding the opposite end firmly and it'll pull out, void of any flesh. Then do the same for the remaining bone, until all you're left with is 100% chicken wing meat
And while we're at it, I've never seen wings on a buffalo either.
It's not named after the buffalo that roam on the home on the range. It's named after Buffalo, NY. That's the city where buffalo wings were first invented. Over time, the capitalization was lost. The giant four-legged animal has nothing to do with it.
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Originally Posted by Bitey
Because they don't expect people to take the term literally and then become perplexed when they can't reconcile "boneless" with "wings."
I can reconcile those words just fine. I was talking about the usage of the words "wings" when those are actually breast meat.
It's not named after the buffalo that roam on the home on the range. It's named after Buffalo, NY. That's the city where buffalo wings were first invented. Over time, the capitalization was lost. The giant four-legged animal has nothing to do with it.
But wait -- Buffalo Wild Wings' logo has a buffalo with wings on it. I'm so confused
Because they don't expect people to take the term literally and then become perplexed when they can't reconcile "boneless" with "wings."
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.
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