I hate being asked if I wanna go “grab wings” by friends. I’m talking about the little chicken wings, like the bar food. Reasons this food sucks:
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Annoying to eat, why am I fighting these little ass bones for this food?
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You get the smallest amount of protein and too much effort to get two bites of chicken from every wing. Just give me a whole chicken leg please what are we doing.
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Wings are EXPENSIVE. NO I am not paying a dollar for each wing! And cheap fast food wings are always atrociously rubbery.
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The sauce or rub is either way too overpowering or spicy and messy, or you can’t taste it at all and feel like you got robbed.
I do not feel satisfied after eating chicken wings. It’s like extending an appetizer to be your whole meal. I’m just slightly less hungry, way more messy, and way more broke after I eat wings.
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Hard agree
Go get nuggets like you did when you were 7 then.
Then it’s basically just chicken nuggets at that point lol
I don’t know, I love sticking my tongue between the bones of the flats.
Boneless wings (nuggets) and chicken strips are the way to go!
Read the title -> down vote
Read the text -> upvote
Chicken wings are the bomb but those crummy small sad excuses are bad. Don’t toy with my emotions OP, you ain’t (I hope) my ex
25 cent wings were our go-to bar food bitd, but now, too expensive. They were so cheap in 70s, as kids we used them as fish bate.
Switch this post to crawfish and I hear you, but chicken wings?
They’re barely even an inconvenience…
More sauce on your hands/face than on the meat is my number one gripe about wings
To be fair, the price is the real issue. When they were .25 it was reasonable
Chicken wings are just an excuse to eat sauce
In the uk chicken wings are 2.6£ per kilo at Tesco which is significantly cheaper than any other variety of chicken.
it’s either boneless or flats for me i need the wings to know im a freak
I love chicken wings with bones, over boneless wings. I feel like a large cat predator when I got my chicken wings with the bones I go all in! Lickity-yum 🤤 👅 but I agree with you that chicken wings have gotten ridiculously expensive.
Do your friends often go to restaurants that only serve wings or require you to eat wings? Like huh? This is such a nothing thing to whine about.
Never come to Buffalo
Imho agree with op one of the most overrated food treats
This sub gets really dragged down with “X food is icky” posts.
Yes, I dont have to click on the opinion, but just pointing out that a significant number of posts on this sub are bland “I hate X food” posts.
I make them at home £2 for a kilo of wings , cook them in the air fryer with spices n hot sauce , make a blue cheese dip and they are awesome , we get tons of wings
I’m with you. It is a very unpopular opinion though
It should be noted that the size and quality of the chicken wing vastly vary between restaurants- totally agree when they’re those shitty little dinky wings, but I’ve got a Korean fried chicken place near me that serves enormous chicken wings every time (I can’t eat 6 of them, and am not a petite person). I also know a couple of barbecue joints that do extremely tasty smoked wings that outclass any of their other meats
I am in total agreement. Wings are scam.
I will only mess with the flats. They are easy to get the meat off and the meat is usually juicier. Drumettes are dryer by comparison and take more work to get a satisfying bite.
That said, I like it when it takes some effort to eat something. My favorites are whole artichokes and steamed mussels/clams in the shell with a flavorful broth.
Never been a big wing fan and whenever I do get them, i always request all drums. Tenders are the way to go for me, much better than boneless “wings”
I’ll take the glorified nuggets before actual wings but if grilled chicken is on the menu, I am forgetting about the existence of wings and glorified nuggets 😋
I thought I was the only one who hated those things. What I hate most is trying to avoid the bone while on a low illumination establishment.
As for 1 and 2– the Chicken wing meat is probably the most flavorable part of the chicken (after which, is the thighs, then legs, then breastmeat). It’s pretty easy eating around the bone (are you like a 5 year old or something?), and 10 wing portions or so is plenty of protein for a meal.
As for the cost — yes, they are sort of expensive for chicken. I remember back in like 2000, the breast meat was $5 a pound, thighs/legs were about $1.99 a pound, and the wings were like $0.99 cents pound. Now, where I live anyways, the cheap walmart/tyson chicken prices are like $2.99 a pound for breast, 2.49 a pound for thighs legs, and 3.49 a pound for chicken wings. They’ve become the most expensive part (per calorie) of the chicken. (meanwhile, the breasts have become such a bargain compared to the late 90s and ealy 00s when everyone was still afraid of fats.)
I don’t like sauces or rubs at a lots of places — I usually make my own wings (using the whole wing) at home crispy, cooked in the oven on 400F with a dry chile powder/paprika rub, and then a drizzle of a buffalo, siracha or some other hot sauce (add just prior to serving) and ranch for dipping. They are crispy and spicy, which I like, with tons of flavor, without all the droopiness. Now, I want to go home and make me some wings……
Boooooo
Agreed. Finally. Our office has monthly meetings and we order exactly two things to feed the team, wings and a salad for the office lady.
Every single time
I typically skip lunch and eat after so I don’t catch heckling about being a man, like fick dude pizza once please
real. been saying this for years.
I used to feel this way but I kept going for wings with friends anyways and I grew to love them. Once you learn how to stick the whole thing in your mouth and just slide the bones back out, they become a lore more fun to eat.
In Chickenwingland (Buffalo, Rochester etc) you would be shot for serving the tiny ass wing you get at most places.
OP, “grab some wings” there and see if you still feel that way.
I just want chicken wings now
Can’t argue about the price, but chicken wings done well are exquisite. I grew up in Western NY so I’m biased, but in my opinion most restaurants outside of that area don’t know what they’re doing and should take them off their menu.
As a lady, I don’t eat with my hands in public, so I always have boneless wings or tenders. Taste the same, no hassle
I agree. All those veins and tendons for two bites of mediocrity
Baby, eat this chicken slow
https://youtu.be/vPJ2rcYQC88
Chickens agree
In LA they’re around $2/Wing for x6 Wings 😳
To add to your argument, chicken wings used to be thrown away as waste back in the day….
I 100% agree with everything you said. I hate going out for wings. If we’re going out for supper then I will
Order supper. Not share 3 dozen overpriced wings with a few friends. The mess is what I can’t stand the most and the wet wipes don’t help.
Drummies all the way
Agreed, have a downvote.
Have to down vote because I agree.
Hate them.
> Wings are EXPENSIVE. NO I am not paying a dollar for each wing! And cheap fast food wings are always atrociously rubbery.
Bruh I can’t even find wings for $1, even the damn Wingstop is $1.30 per wing, and the local wing joints are all going out of business because they somehow can’t compete. I quit buying them when they went over 50¢, at this point I only have them when I end up with chicken wings and make them myself.
More for me
I didn’t like wings for a long time.
Then I learned you just eat them lengthwise and the meat pulls right off the bone without fighting.
I still prefer drumsticks but I don’t hate wings anymore.
Yeah, I prefer boneless “wings”
I’m a wing eater who pretty much eats every possible piece of digestible material off, leaving nothing but a bone that looks like it was cleaned by insects.
There’s waaaay more than two bites on a wing. My guess is you’re one of those, single bite and toss it kinda folks. Let us never order wings together because you don’t finish yours.
Literally ordering up a platter of usually soggy minuscule arms
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Additionally, I’d rather not get my hands dirty while eating (if I am eating wings I’ll always get dry).
We didn’t get to the top of the food chain to then worry about bones being in our meals
Let me scoff my food with no cares in the world
I totally agree. There’s far too little muscle meat in chicken wings, and far too much inedible gronk. That’s what I label any part of the animal which is not muscle meat. I never liked KFC because of their focus on wings.
No you’re so right for this
Upvoting because I got food poisoning from Wing Stop three days ago.
My literal favorite food. GFY, take my upvote.
Holy shit. I’ve never disagreed with someone more. You, me, fight. Tomorrow…after school. Winner gets a bucket of wings.
I’m with you, OP.
Never understood how people enjoy getting sauce all in their fingernails and all over their hands for some shitty chicken. Like you said, the amount of meat you get is ludicrous for the work you have to do, which has a side effect of also making you look a child who just started eating on their own, along with being expensive.
Especially people eating these things in public. Just admit you really just like the sauce and start drinking it straight. It would be cleaner and you would be getting right to the point instead of making people listen to your disgusting sucking noises as you fellate those tiny bones to get 0.02oz of chicken down the hatch.
Also, sucking on tendons and bones is not my idea of a good time. I’d rather use a fork and knife or hell, even chopsticks, to eat any dish before I’d subject myself to chicken wings.
Then you get these folks that hate on “boneless wings” like it’s some kind of contest and you are more of a man for eating regular wings. But these same pigs will gladly scarf down a 20 piece chicken mcnugget meal with 10 sides of BBQ sauce.
op, you’re the only person on this godforsaken planet who understands me.
I’m annoyed that they consider the drum and flat 2 wings.
Not to mention what they call a wing is only half a fucking wing.
I don’t share this opinion but I’m glad someone thinks like this it’s very healthy for the ecosystem for opinions like this to exist thank you for your service soldier
Sounds like you don’t dislike chicken wings, you dislike shitty capitalism wings designed to make you drink more beer and spend money on lazy wings meant to be profitable, not tasty.
Number 1 fucked me UPPPP the way I had to crease for about 5 minutes before reading the rest omfg!
The solution is to put a couple of chicken breasts in a crock pot with some franks red hot, shred it up, and put it on a bun with tomato, lettuce, and ranch.
Sheeeet, OP might be cookin here
Your allowed to be wrong it’s ok