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I'd never heard of boneless wings before this, but having had my share of wings I don't think I'd expect them to be 100% bone-free—I'd expect them to be devoid of the large bones that make up half of regular wings and make them difficult to eat. An occasional smaller bone is a different story and not something I'd ever be confident of avoiding in any piece of meat or fish.

I guess I see it similarly to seedless watermelon. The large annoying seeds are (mostly) gone, but there are plenty of small white ones.

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I _have_ eaten boneless wings many times and I would be extremely surprised if a "boneless" wing had any bones in it, at all.

The difference between that and a seedless watermelon is that watermelon seeds don't send a man to the emergency room.

A 2" bone won't either, if you chew your food properly like an adult?

Could cut the your tongue or the inside of your mouth, though. Chicken bones are very prone to be broken into sharp pieces.

Boneless wings are typically battered deboned chicken breast; in this incident, they were.

Yep, I found that in the ruling. And a 1.5 inch bone in a deboned chicken breast is rare, but not unheard of.

The weirdest thing about this incident isn't that the bone was in the boneless chicken breast, it's that the bone managed to make it through the kitchen's cubing process and the diner's cutting the chunk of chicken into 3 bites.

So, boneless chicken wings are neither wings nor boneless?

Why are manufacturers givn so much latitude?

Boneless wings are a euphemism for a heavily battered, more expensive chicken nugget, which won't typically have any bones because of the way they are processed.

Boneless wings are processed differently than chicken nuggets.

From the ruling:

> The record reflects that the boneless chicken wing consumed by Berkheimer was prepared from a boneless, skinless, chicken breast, which was manufactured by Wayne Farms and subsequently sold to REKM by GFS. It is undisputed that REKM prepared the chicken dish by cutting one of the chicken breasts into approximately one-inch sized cubes that were later fried. The chicken meat was not ground or further manipulated prior to serving; rather, the final product was "essentially[,] a breaded and fried piece of chicken breast."

Sounds like these aren't that kind of boneless wing.

Chicken nuggets are typically ground or minced chicken formed into a nugget shape before being battered and fried. “Boneless” wings and the like are usually whole pieces of breast meat, in my experience.

They’re more expensive, and rightfully so, than a chicken nugget because they’re whole pieces, not reclaimed scraps from processing chickens.

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