Meanwhile, at the New York Times…
Thank you. That was lovely.
It was indeed. Adding to the thanks.
There are two separate cases, right?
Sure, rock stars are definitely known to say dumb things too, like when aging; still thought the article was worth posting, though.
But doesn’t Santa come down these chimneys?
I may not be the first to bring this up, but I find it significant that Thompson was shot at an investor conference. During his tenure as head of a health care company, I wonder how many sick people he went out of his way to talk to.
More like he went out of his way to not talk to them 'cause sick people are icky.
That’s not what happened in the Ohio case. Someone bought boneless wings, but a inch-plus 
piece of bone stuck in his (as I recall) throat and, with infections and such, he incurred big medical bills, which is what he was suing tor.
Can you expect a boneless wing to contain no trace of bone? Probably not. But you should be able to expect it doesn’t have a piece of bone as big as an actual natural wing would have.
Having had “boneless wings” I can confirm that they are basically chicken nuggets prepared Buffalo wings style, i. e., a chunk of breaded and fried chicken breast… I was rather disappointed that it wasn’t an actual deboned wing or drumette.
That’s certainly the stereotype of the out-of-touch, health-care executive, but I don’t know if it’s true of Thompson. Maybe he’s not like that. I don’t want to jump to conclusions either way. It is the kind of thing I’d ask about if I was doing reporting on Thompson’s life and background, especially if I was writing an editorial calling him a working-class hero.
Over 2 inches, actually. Very thin, apparently, but still pretty long.
I would agree he shouldn’t expect such a large piece of bone, so I’m ok with the suit.
On the other hand, what sort of slob chews so poorly he doesn’t notice a 2 inch bone until after swallowing? So, perhaps justified in suing but still one dumb MFer.
Doesn’t the fact that it was a rebranded nugget, rather than an actual wing, make it less likely to find a bone, rather than more? I could understand someone trying to remove the bone from a chicken wing, and making a mistake to leave some of it in. A chicken nugget, on the other hand, is supposed to be boneless already. Dipping it in spicy sauce and putting it on a plate with some ranch dressing won’t make a bone suddenly appear.
(Yes, I realize that there’s probably some risk of finding a bone in a nugget, but stripping the meat off a chicken breast shouldn’t be all that difficult.)
Choking on fish bones goes all the way back to biblical times.
“Nugget”, in my experience, generally implies that it’s made from ground chicken or mechanically separated meat. (Note: whenever the label says “with rib meat”, it means MSM.) “Boneless wing” suggests a piece of otherwise unprocessed chicken breast.
If there are bones turning up in a nugget, someone has seriously screwed things up.
And chicken is the “tunafish of the land”.
No cheese on your chicken sandwich, though. Someone might think you’re eating a goat boiled in its mother’s milk, and Yahweh would be mighty cross if He heard about it.
Then what’s the difference between that and a “chicken strip”?
(I honestly don’t know the difference.)
A boneless wing is bite-sized. A strip is longer and generally cut from the tenderloin.
Strips are also usually served unsauced.
Chicken nuggets come from boy chickens, and chicken tenders come from girl chickens. Duh