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"boneless" chicken wings

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nageov3t

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: joshsquall
Some of us don't like sucking bones.

I understand, some of you like to eat your meat while trying mentally to deny that you're enjoying the flesh of another once-living sentient creature. It's kind of like the old 'blame the butcher' mentality. OTOH, I for one savor the canivoristic pleasure of sucking the flesh off of bones. BTW, my smoked pork spareribs are to freakin die for. My buffalo wings... you're obviously unworthy of such joy.

this, of course, is why both boneless and bone-in wings are available for purchase :)
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82
I prefer boneless wings better. I think they taste better and I'm really only going after the wing sauce.

That's all it's about. I could care less about the bone.

This. Boneless are less work, cleaner, and provide a chicken based vehicle for sauce consumption. I personally don't find anything exciting about the taste/texture of fat/connective tissue.

You are eating chicken nuggets shaped as wings. That ain't no chicken wing.

We've already covered that drumsticks aren't wings either .. but you'd still consider it a wing? Therefore the determining factor is included bone?

I didn't say anything about drumsticks. But if you are referring to the small piece that looks like a drumstick, well, that is part of the wing and not really a drumstick. I can't remember what it is called though. Drumette I think.

If someone was insane enough to pull the wing bones out of the wing after it has been cooked (so the shape is preserved), I guess that can be called boneless wing.

The determining factor is in fact, is it chicken wing? :D
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i don't like the skin or gnawing on the bone, so boneless wings are a great "invention" to me. more meat, less work, how can anyone hate on that?

you are eating a chicken nugget shaped like a chicken wing.

i've never seen a 'boneless wing' that looked anything like a chicken wing. they usually look like exactly what they are: chicken nuggets in delicious wing sauce.

There are. It's just an extrusion mould anyway. Humm, I swear I saw a KFC commercial with the wing shape and all... now I can't find it.
 

QueBert

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i don't like the skin or gnawing on the bone, so boneless wings are a great "invention" to me. more meat, less work, how can anyone hate on that?

you are eating a chicken nugget shaped like a chicken wing.

i've never seen a 'boneless wing' that looked anything like a chicken wing. they usually look like exactly what they are: chicken nuggets in delicious wing sauce.

There are. It's just an extrusion mould anyway. Humm, I swear I saw a KFC commercial with the wing shape and all... now I can't find it.

KFC had the boneless honey BBQ that looked very close to real wings. Not sure if they still carry them. But I have eaten them and can vogue that they were definitely not nuggets but in fact actual breast meat. They were pretty good.

I guess it's impossibly to cut breast meat into shapes according to what I'm reading here. If you cook the breasts, then cut it, then bread it then fry it you can make it look like whatever you want. I could even cut it to look like a nugget if I wanted to lol.