Chicken Wing Shock

[barry1010]

I have never been to a chicken take away nor ordered chicken wings in a pub/restaurant.

I am shocked to discover food advertised as chicken wings is usually chicken breast.

Why don't they call it nuggets or something?

Am I the only one that didn't know?

[pastafreak]

Nope...but I cook and eat my own wings 99% of the time. I had hot wings in a pub last summer. They were definitely wings. 

[barry1010]

I always eat the wings of my chickens as soon as they come out of the oven.

[calmck]

I have a friend from Goa she has a great recipe for chicken wings

[pastafreak]

I think the wings are often the best part. I can happily eat a big bowl of them. 

[Smowball]

I didn't know that lol. Tbh it's not something I would order anyway, but I often cook chicken wings & legs here for MrSmow to eat.

[Hopkirk]

I like Chicken Ding

 

(chicken done in a microwave)

[Smowball]

LOL @ Chicken Ding!

[jno]

I cook and eat my own wings

autocannibalism! 🍖

[Thisoldbird]

Delicious.  If I'm cooking a whole chicken the wings are eaten straight out of the oven. Mmnn

[Buenchico]

>>> "I am shocked to discover food advertised as chicken wings is usually chicken breast"

Only the 'boneless' variety.  

See here:
https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-boneless-wings-culinary-lie-7bae0f861af227f53318e5ddfcce771f

 

>>> "I have never been to a chicken take away"

WHAT???  Life without KFC isn't 'life' at all - it's merely 'existence'! 🍗

[Smowball]

lol!

[piggynose]

A friend  can't stand chicken, iho it tastes fowl (foul)

[1ozzy]

Don't get me started on "Buffalo Wings".

Pigs may also fly,,

[barry1010]

We eat a lot of chicken at home, when I eat out I prefer to eat something different to my usual meals, never seen the appeal of KFC, McD and the rest of them.  As for pizza - give me cheese on doorstep toast any day.  The only take away I eat is fish and chips and that is a rarity.  

[Old_Geezer]

Never really thought about it but I recall having fewer bones when eating chicken out compared to what I get if eating a chicken wing at home. (That stated, I'm unsure I've seen or specifically ordered wing when out anyway. Maybe my memory is failing me again.)

 

Surely they won't call something a nugget if it isn't. I suspect it would be a fillet.

 

(Just as long as they don't start calling it a "tender" like many dodgy places have started. I hate these stupid introduction and changes of word done for zero reason. It just rankles me.)

[barry1010]

As far as I know a chicken nugget is a nugget of chicken breast, the same as a boneless 'chicken wing'.

Chicken tenders are the thin strips of lean chicken meat attached to the chicken breast by a tendon - hence the name. They were often discarded as they made the breast fillet look untidy. It's not a new name for thin slices of chicken breast

[Old_Geezer]

In my experience it is a new name for chicken breast fillet.

[barry1010]

You can buy chicken breast fillet with the tenders attached but it is mis-selling to advertise sliced breast as tenders

[pastafreak]

The recipe for Buffalo wings originated in Buffalo NY...so there! Iirc, its the sauce that is the "Buffalo" part of the recipe. 

[Old_Geezer]

Makes sense. A bit like hamburgers originating in Hamburg.

Done some research, apparently tenders were first a thing in New Hampshire in 1974. So as I suspected, adopted from the US.