I’m not normally a chicken wing eater, but I hear about others liking them. Thought I’d get some at the store the other day, but they were $3.99 a pound while drumsticks were only $1.99 a pound.
For you chicken wing enthusiasts - why would chicken wings be worth the $2 more a pound? What are you doing with them? Talk me out of the drumsticks I bought instead.
I’ve never had them, but my guess is that they’re essentially a sauce-delivery system?
I would love to tell you you’re wrong, but you kinda nailed it.
Also, what the fuck? How have you never had wings?
In the two weeks before the superbowl the local news will start talking about ancillary things like what people eat in the cities who’s teams made the superbowl that you can serve at a superbowl party. In the early ‘90s Buffalo made the superbowl 4 years in a row, and thus the Buffalo wing gained national notoriety.
And it ruined chicken wings prices forever.
Drumsticks are superior
Hell, only the neck is not superior.
Hell nah!
They are good bar food, used to be cheap leftover chicken parts, lots of crispy skin and sauce, easy to cook with a deep fryer, slower to eat, and goes well with beer.
They used to be thrown away or used for stock, poor people turned them into trendy food and now it’s expensive. Same with Osso bucco.
Damned poor people and their master plan of trend setting. shakes fist
Really though, poor people buy what they can afford and do what they can to make it delicious. Think the same thing happened with bacon and lobster.
I don’t think they planned on making it trendy, but cheap tasty food sure has a way of getting popular.
I recall reading that lobster used to only be deemed fit enough food for prisoners.
And lamb shanks! Used to be so cheap. Not any more.
I had my first taste at a dive bar in 1989. 5 cents apiece!
And lobster! Used to be prison food.
Surface area to volume ratio, they deliver sauce better and have high crispy skin.
Very tender meat you get to eat off the bone, plus lots of crispy skin.
disclaimer: I don’t like wings either
I would buy the drumsticks too at that price. If you’re not looking for the historical reasons, then it’s purely preference and recipe. Drumsticks are higher in meat and chicken wings are higher in skin and sauce surface area. I usually prefer drumsticks but wings win when the recipe makes the skin super crunchy or I want a higher ratio of sauce.
More seasoning to meat ratio. And the meat is tender like breast meat, but fatty enough to not be dry. Easy to eat with your hands and to share. Easy to cook fast and thoroughly in a deep fryer. And used to be dirt cheap. I remember 10 cent wing nights at bars to bring in people and make them thirsty. Basically selling them at cost. Would be more like 50 cents now. But they got popular, so you never see it anymore. Now they sell for a huge profit.
Skin to meat ratio. Drum sticks fill you up faster, I eat wings for the spices and sauces not the meat. You can eat 12 delicious wings for every 6 delicious drumsticks. If you just want to get full faster go for drumsticks. If you want to savour the action of eating, go for wings.
And if you are dirt poor … you use the wing as a dipping stick to lap up as much of the sauce as possible by double/triple/quadruple dipping before consuming the chicken wing meat.
I‘d go for the drjmsticks in that case. Wings are great but legs are equally good and if they are cheaper, sign me up!
Also those prices are insane… I pay 6.- over here for 500g of wings from the supermarket…
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I don’t know, man, it’s just like… the way that it is.
Buffalo Wings! The best shi evah
