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 don’t know, man, it’s just like… the way that it is.
Drumsticks are superior
Hell, only the neck is not superior.
Hell nah!
They were a garbage cut of meat that were tossed to the freed slaves of the south, and as black folk do, they turned it into a delicious snack with spices and seasonings. As culture desegregated, it became a trendy dish and that drove the prices up on what was once a trash cut.
From a culinary viewpoint, the ratio of protein, fat and crispy skin is perfect and you won’t find it elsewhere on a chicken. The large surface area to relatively small amount of edible meat means a high ratio of seasoning per bite.
Makes for a tasty snack
They taste good. But i mean… Thighs are like the same meat and you get more of it for cheaper than any other part of the chicken except maybe the feet. 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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Surface area to volume ratio, they deliver sauce better and have high crispy skin.
I just find that they taste better. It’s the tastiest part of the chicken, especially the wing tip with 2 bones. Airfryer cooks them really nicely
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.
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.
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 recall reading that lobster used to only be deemed fit enough food for prisoners.
I don’t think they planned on making it trendy, but cheap tasty food sure has a way of getting popular.
Buffalo Wings! The best shi evah
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.
They’re not. They used to be the cheapest cut of chicken because most places would just toss them out. As buffalo wings became more popular people have been consuming them more driving up the price. They taste good, but they’re definitely not priced well at 3.99 a pound. I would expect them to be on par with the cost of chicken breasts.
Have you even seen chicken breast prices lately? I’d expect wings to be around the same price as the drumsticks.
Legitimately asking because I never buy breasts, are they wicked expensive right now? Breasts are the worst part of the chicken for anything other than the total amount of meat IMHO because they don’t have as much flavor and dry out really easily when they’re only slightly overcooked. My order of preference is thighs>legs>wings>breasts.
I would rate wings over legs since the latter have less flavor and more sinew but otherwise agree with you totally.
Honestly thighs, legs, and wings for me are on pretty even footing depending on what I’m doing for a meal. At places that do whole chickens and not wings specifically, I generally prefer the order I listed. But wings from places that specialize in wings are really great. Whole breasts are just undeniably over by themselves as my least favorite way to eat chicken (even though I don’t dislike them or anything, I just don’t prefer them).
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…
Marketing.
