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Diamond_Dog

(34,889 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 05:36 PM Feb 2023

How 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 aren’t — and how the chicken wing’s proximity to beer, good times and football sent it soaring — now’s the time.

Today’s 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 meat’s 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.”

More at link

https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-boneless-wings-culinary-lie-7bae0f861af227f53318e5ddfcce771f

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How the 'boneless wing' became a tasty culinary lie (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Feb 2023 OP
How about... hippywife Feb 2023 #1
Plus you can make a sandwich with them😀 Phoenix61 Feb 2023 #2
I agree wings can be messy. Mr.Bill Feb 2023 #3
Parts is parts Major Nikon Feb 2023 #4
To me if it ain't got bones its not a chicken "wing" it's just oval skinless chicken meat..yes? mitch96 Feb 2023 #5
it's a freaking nugget Kali Feb 2023 #6
How does that saying go? Closer to the bone the sweeter the meat? ...nt mitch96 Feb 2023 #7

hippywife

(22,767 posts)
1. How about...
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 05:45 PM
Feb 2023

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.

Mr.Bill

(24,813 posts)
3. I agree wings can be messy.
Fri Feb 10, 2023, 08:00 PM
Feb 2023

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.

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