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Diners who order boneless chicken wings can't expect them to really be boneless, court rules (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No bones about it

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Boneless is NOT a "cooking style".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but counterpoint - Ohio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Agreed, we should have just given it to the yogurt and moved on. :)

[+] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] Willy 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Laughs in fish fillets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Same way if you call something a "wing" it has to be a wing? (I think this should be a thing but since that's not true the boneless part isn't)

Edit: I said that badly, let me rephrase (and this isn't my opinion I'm just trying to decode the logic): Because "Boneless Wing" already isnt technically true to what the product is (it's not a wing), then the other part doesn't have to be technically true (it's not always bonless).

Now if someone sold, a boneless steak with a bone, then under this logic it would not be allowed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ohio is a problem and I'm done pretending it's not.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well boneless wings has always been a bold faced lie anyway since they don't make them with wing meat.

I remember arguing on the phone with a person taking my order years ago the first time they offered me "white meat boneless wings" and I tried to point out that wings are dark meat not white meat so what they were selling wasn't really wings. They got pissed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I've never seen dark wing meat. Drumsticks sometimes have darkish parts but it's no comparison to the color of actual dark meat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Are they still wings if they don't have feathers?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They don’t make em like they used to

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe an actual wing got mixed up with the 'boneless' ones? I can't fathom how a (5 CM!!) piece of bone could get in the meat and be unnoticed by both the cook and the diner (who presumably chewed it before failing to swallow?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Do not look into "chicken processing". You will be disappointed more than you can imagine.