Abraham wrote:People actually eat chicken wings and it stumps me - why?
Mostly fat, precious little meat and what there is somewhat difficult to access. I don't get the popularly of this tidbit of 'almost no chicken' that, when I'm eating real chicken meat like legs, thighs, - I simply pitch into the trash.
Frankly, when I buy whole chickens to barbecue, I'd be grateful if the wings were clipped off before I take them home.
What next are people gonna be bamboozled into thinking is a great food item?
Chicken beaks/feathers...?
I'm astonished that 'the part that went over the fence last' isn't also some wildly popular food item or will be some day.
No doubt in the future, some wily restauranteur/chef will start marketing this part of the chicken as a gourmet treat and crowds will flock to his eatery demanding this gustatorial delight. (not me)
Same thing with "skirt steak", now known as Fajita meat. Once was the lowly dregs of the butchered bovine, now the heralded first choice in Mexican restaurants. My mother, rest her soul, would not eat fajitas, her father worked for a processing plant and they would dine on skirt steak almost exclusively, since they were giving that away.