# MacDonald's takes wing(s)! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249 "2013-08-26T21:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/21 "2013-08-27T01:15:39Z")
Winging this over to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/22 "2013-08-27T01:21:49Z")
100 gazillion\* dollars spent on advertising and still someone says “MacDonalds.” Heads are gonna roll… - not a real amount ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/23 "2013-08-27T01:27:56Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > 100 gazillion\* dollars spent on advertising and still someone says “MacDonalds.” Heads are gonna roll… > > - not a real amount I thought Mac-Donalds’s was urban slang for McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/24 "2013-08-27T02:35:47Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Chicken wings used to be garbage meat, available for about the price of the cheapest hamburger if not less. They now go for more per pound than drumsticks or bone-in breasts, and sometimes even boneless chicken breasts. > > McD’s farming 6-winged chickens in Bolivia won’t change that. Yeah, they’ve gotten pricey lately, averaging probably around $2.50/lb around here. Long gone are the days of .99/lb wings (as they were maybe around 5 years ago or so.) The McDonald’s chicken wings actually are not bad (they were here in Chicago earlier this year). They’re a heck of a lot better than you’d expect. You can read all about them and see some pictures at [this local foodie board,](http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=36638) where, on the whole, they got positive reviews. They are breaded, just so you know what to expect. Regardless, I can’t see them lasting long. Who goes to McDonald’s for chicken? And, man, do I wish there were bars that gave you free wings. That may have happened once upon a golden time, but not now. I think you can still find quarter wings specials, but typically it’s like $0.75-$1 a wing. (For example, look at the story of a [wing crawl through Chicago](http://mlogli.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/awesome-weekend-pt-2-wing-crawl/) where they say " 20 wings for $12 is a giant steal no matter which way you look at it.") ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/25 "2013-08-27T03:15:08Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Regardless, I can’t see them lasting long. Who goes to McDonald’s for chicken? Ever heard of McNuggets? I guess that you could make the argument that those aren’t really chicken. McNuggets were introduced when I worked at McDonald’s over 30 years ago. For the first couple of weeks we had to hand out free samples to customers in line. For a while they didn’t have the ready made packs of sauce and we had to fill these little plastic cups by hand which was a drag. Ah, memories. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/26 "2013-08-27T03:22:25Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Winging this over to Cafe Society. Now you’ve done it. This thread was about McDonalds, and now you’ve made it about food. > [@silenus](#): > > I remember the McDLT and the McLean Deluxe. Perfect marketers they ain’t. Remember the _Good and Tasty?_ And yet they ain’t goin’ broke, so they must be doin’ somthin’ right. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/27 "2013-08-27T03:27:52Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I thought Mac-Donalds’s was urban slang for McDonald’s. I thought it was “Mickey D’s, yo”. Perhaps I am a tad out of touch. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/28 "2013-08-27T04:03:48Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Imagine! A dollar a wing! (Bones included.) Well if they took the bones out they wouldn’t be _crunchy_, now would they? ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/29 "2013-08-27T04:10:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Redoubled to $0.48. > > I remember the McDLT and the McLean Deluxe. Perfect marketers they ain’t. Hot side stays hot. Cool side stays cool. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/30 "2013-08-27T04:45:47Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Ever heard of McNuggets? I guess that you could make the argument that those aren’t really chicken. How did I forget those? And the chicken sandwich, of course. OK, who goes to McDonald’s for bone-on fried chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/31 "2013-08-27T05:49:47Z")
Burger King is still selling those off-menu veggie burgers they started ten years ago… Maybe McDonald’s is just going for the folks that are really into chicken bones. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/32 "2013-08-27T10:32:14Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How did I forget those? And the chicken sandwich, of course. OK, who goes to McDonald’s for bone-on fried chicken? They don’t have McCrispy Chicken(fried chicken) on the menu in the US? [https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app\_117784394919914](https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app_117784394919914) It is almost as popular as the burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/33 "2013-08-27T11:11:55Z")
> [@grude](#): > > They don’t have McCrispy Chicken(fried chicken) on the menu in the US? > > [https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app\_117784394919914](https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app_117784394919914) > > It is almost as popular as the burgers. No bones about it. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/34 "2013-08-27T11:36:06Z")
I recently had [turkey ribs.](http://www.kuckfarms.com/) Delicious! Turkey wings are equally tasty. I’d pay a buck a wing for turkey wings. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/35 "2013-08-27T13:27:12Z")
Till I make you take me On your **mighty wings** Make you take me On your **mighty wings** across the sky Take me on your **mighty wings** Take me on your **mighty wings** tonight How could these possibly fail? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/36 "2013-08-27T14:19:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Musicat** : > > Remember the Good and Tasty? And yet they ain’t goin’ broke, so they must be doin’ somthin’ right. McDonald’s is big enough that they can weather some mighty big mistakes without going broke. Doesn’t mean they aren’t mistakes, though. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/37 "2013-08-27T15:15:27Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How did I forget those? And the chicken sandwich, of course. OK, who goes to McDonald’s for bone-on fried chicken? The same people who like McNuggets and chicken sandwiches, I suspect. I wonder if these wings will boost their chicken-related revenue much at all. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/38 "2013-08-27T15:23:51Z")
> [@grude](#): > > They don’t have McCrispy Chicken(fried chicken) on the menu in the US? > > [https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app\_117784394919914](https://www.facebook.com/McHappyTT/app_117784394919914) > > It is almost as popular as the burgers. What’s up with those prices? 14 pounds for a sandwich? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/39 "2013-08-27T15:39:29Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > What’s up with those prices? 14 pounds for a sandwich? Its not USD, each dollar is one sixth of a USD. Ronald is no stranger to chicken with bones. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249/40 "2013-08-27T17:05:04Z")
The US has plenty of fast-food fried chicken, just mostly not from the same places as fast-food burgers. If an American wants fried chicken, we go to KFC or other places that specialize in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macdonalds-takes-wing-s/667249.md?page=3)