# Boneless "Wings" are not wings **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347 "2021-06-30T17:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/41 "2021-07-01T15:42:06Z")
“Dang, check out the truck nuts on Ferdinand!” 👀 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/42 "2021-07-01T15:55:06Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I have recently discovered chips made from fried chicken skins. Really bad for you but holy crap are they delicious. Years ago when my sister was trying to lose weight, she’d marinate chicken thighs and roast them with the skin on. Then, she take the skin off and just eat the chicken meat. She gave the skin to me. OMG, so goooood. And so baaaaaad. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/43 "2021-07-01T17:24:28Z")
Boneless chicken wings? How about pork wings?! I just know they’re not real. Pigs, wings, flying and all that. They do have a bone and they are quite good with some bbq sauce. But, despite being listed as such on the menu, they are _not_ pork wings! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/44 "2021-07-01T17:31:17Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > Boneless chicken wings? How about pork wings?! Turkey ribs look like ribs, taste great, but the aint ribs. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/45 "2021-07-01T17:32:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > What’s the deal with “semi-boneless”?! Would you buy a container of band-aids that bragged they were “very nearly sterile, hardly any poop”? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/46 "2021-07-01T18:33:07Z")
Nope. You have to go to McDs for the real deal! [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/McD-McRib.jpg/1200px-McD-McRib.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/McD-McRib.jpg/1200px-McD-McRib.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/47 "2021-07-01T18:38:04Z")
You can get [realer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyu7BauVPI) 😉 . ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/48 "2021-07-01T18:40:27Z")
I love Chef John! I might have to make his version since McDs isn’t currently selling theirs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/49 "2021-07-01T18:43:41Z")
I like that he admits that he never uses the same rub twice. I don’t think I have ever bothered either. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/50 "2021-07-01T18:53:04Z")
That’s how we do it. Grind up what we need, when we need it. Just finished watching it. Dang, I’m hungry now! _insert Homer drooling emoji_ ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/51 "2021-07-01T18:54:49Z")
Oh, and who keeps a rack of freshly made ribs for 24 hours? It’s never happened in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/52 "2021-07-01T20:49:25Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > Boneless chicken wings? How about pork wings?! Why not, apparently buffalo have wings. ---
**Author:** ![LauderdaleFort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@LauderdaleFort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LauderdaleFort)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/53 "2021-07-01T20:58:48Z")
Them’s fighting words, sir! Pistols at dawn!!! ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/54 "2021-07-01T21:48:47Z")
As god is my witness, I thought Buffaloes could fly. ---
**Author:** ![SingleMalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/singlemalt/32/3961_2.png) [@SingleMalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SingleMalt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/55 "2021-07-02T15:26:21Z")
“They’re hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!” ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/56 "2021-07-04T05:14:56Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck sold wings at 10 cents each and draft beer for 25 cents at the Ohio State University in 1980. Gawd I am old! Not just old, you were a time traveler. BW3 opened in 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/57 "2021-07-04T19:22:32Z")
Part of being old is missing dates by a year or two from memory. I go by the people who were with me at the time. The friend who took me there and explained what the heck weck was to me happened at my junior year, 1982. And I was drunk until 1982 without wings, it was ruff back then. Point is that wings were an under utilized part of the chicken until then. And we would get drunk on 25 cent beers exclaiming what a genius this idea was to combine hot wings and beer. Too bad I didn’t drop out and dedicate my lifes efforts to being part of the chicken wing revolution. I dont recall ever having weck. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/58 "2021-07-05T00:41:56Z")
Chickens have long been bred to have eight legs, yielding eight thighs/drumsticks per chicken. Wings, not so much (yet). But with wings becoming so popular and apparently profitable, we can expect breeders to develop eight-winged chickens too. Better still, if they can develop a breed of chickens with eight boneless wings per chicken. Watch for it! As several have noted, the skin is the best part. I’m looking for breeders to develop chickens with multiple layers of skin. The most successful breeders will have chickens with fat that is its own barbecue sauce. ETA: I just googled it, looking for a photo of an eight-legged chicken I could post here. I didn’t find a photo, but I did see articles about those chickens also having six wings. So they’re already working on it! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ukulele_ike1/32/4613_2.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/59 "2021-07-20T01:08:42Z")
A chicken with eight wings would be able to fly. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347/60 "2021-07-20T04:05:56Z")
I should point out that the Anchor Bar, birthplace of Buffalo wings, has boneless wings on their menu. And _they know._ Reminds me of the Seinfeld bit about write-offs. Jerry ask Kramer, “Do you even know what a write-off is?” “No, but they do. And they are the ones writing it off.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boneless-wings-are-not-wings/945347.md?page=4)