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Related: About this forumHow the 'boneless wing' became a tasty culinary lie
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This weekend, according to the National Chicken Council, Americans are set to eat 1.45 billion chicken wings. So if you ever wanted a deep dive into what it means to eat the wings that arent and how the chicken wings proximity to beer, good times and football sent it soaring nows the time.
Todays food landscape is brimming with these gentle impostors things we eat that pass as other things we eat.
Surimi is fish that effectively becomes crab or lobster meat for many of us and stars in California rolls across the land. Carrots are cut and buffed until their edges are curved and smooth, becoming baby carrots or, slightly more truthfully, baby-cut carrots. Impossible Burgers are plant-based delicacies that carry many of meats characteristics without ever having been near an animal. And Chilean sea bass? Not a bass at all, but a rebrand of something called a Patagonian toothfish.
Part of the reason for the rise of the boneless wing is money. In recent years, with prices of actual chicken wings rising, the alternative became more cost effective. The average price for prepared boneless wings is $4.99 a pound compared with $8.38 a pound for bone-in wings, according to Tom Super, senior vice president of communications for the National Chicken Council, citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He calls it a way to move more boneless/skinless breast meat that continues currently to be in ample supply.
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https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-boneless-wings-culinary-lie-7bae0f861af227f53318e5ddfcce771f
hippywife
(22,767 posts)they're just less messy to eat.
I mean it's not like the other examples in the article where a different product is subbed in for another, it's still chicken meat.
Phoenix61
(17,689 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,813 posts)I prepare mine with a dry method. I put them on a grill raw with nothing but salt, pepper and Old Bay seasoning on them.
Major Nikon
(36,911 posts)mitch96
(14,691 posts)Kali
(55,801 posts)wings got bones. best part of a yardbird.