{
 "id": "all-flats",
 "names": {
  "name": "all flats",
  "aliases": [
   "all drums",
   "all flats no drums",
   "flats only"
  ],
  "said": "Tacked to the end of the order: 'twenty, lemon pepper, all flats.'"
 },
 "region": [
  "atlanta",
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "A",
  "part_of_speech": "phrase"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "all + flats (plural of flat); an order-modifier phrase, mirrored by all drums",
  "first_attested": "2018, in 2 Chainz's 'Hot Wings': \"She just want her 20-piece/ All flats with the lemon pepper\" — the earliest dated printing this project can name",
  "note": "*Inference —* the phrase can only exist where a counter holds enough volume to sort, which is why it belongs to high-turnover wing counters and chains rather than to a bar running one case a night.",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "An order that refuses half the bird. A wing splits one-for-one into a drumette and a flat, so a kitchen filling an all-flats order has to sell the drumettes to somebody else — which is why the answer is often no, and why the places that say yes charge for it.",
  "how": "Say it last, after count and flavour, and expect a wait: somebody is picking through a pan. Chains that will do it price it per wing rather than per order. A counter that cannot do it will say 'they come mixed', which is the polite form of no."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "flat",
   "as": "The piece the order is asking for, and why.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "drumette",
   "as": "The piece the order leaves behind, which is somebody else's problem.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "as": "The argument this phrase is the loud end of.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "atlanta-lemon-pepper",
   "as": "The style the phrase travels with in the songs that carry it.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "wingstop",
   "as": "One of the counters with enough volume to sort a pan, and it prices the sorting.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing",
   "as": "One bird, two pieces, which is the arithmetic the phrase runs into.",
   "rel": "whole"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings",
  "s:wp-buffalo-wing",
  "s:wp-wingstop"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text.how": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "note": "the per-wing surcharge is reported by customers rather than read off a menu by this project"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "schema": 1,
 "type": "term",
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "An order that refuses half the bird. A wing splits one-for-one into a drumette and a flat, so a kitchen filling an all-flats order has to sell the drumettes to somebody else — which is why the answer is often no, and…",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "atlanta",
   "name": "Atlanta",
   "state": "GA",
   "note": "lemon pepper, wet and dry, and the wing plate with fried rice"
  },
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "flat",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "flat",
   "as": "The piece the order is asking for, and why.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "drumette",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "drumette",
   "as": "The piece the order leaves behind, which is somebody else's problem.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The flat and the drum",
   "as": "The argument this phrase is the loud end of.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "atlanta-lemon-pepper",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "Lemon pepper wings",
   "as": "The style the phrase travels with in the songs that carry it.",
   "rel": "style"
  },
  {
   "to": "wingstop",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Wingstop",
   "as": "One of the counters with enough volume to sort a pan, and it prices the sorting.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing",
   "as": "One bird, two pieces, which is the arithmetic the phrase runs into.",
   "rel": "whole"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Lemon pepper wings",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pepper_wings",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-buffalo-wing",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Buffalo wing",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_wing",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-wingstop",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Wingstop",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingstop",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "note": "the per-wing surcharge is reported by customers rather than read off a menu by this project"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "atlanta-lemon-pepper",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "Lemon pepper wings",
   "as": "Half the order in Atlanta, and named in the verse that carried the dish out of the city.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "lemon-pepper-seasoning",
   "type": "sauce",
   "name": "Lemon pepper",
   "as": "Travels with it in the order that Atlanta made famous.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "lemon-pepper-wet",
   "type": "sauce",
   "name": "Lemon pepper wet",
   "as": "The other half of the order that Atlanta says in one breath.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-basket",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "the wing basket",
   "as": "The special request that breaks the basket's economics, and what a shop charges for it.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-cut",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the wing cut",
   "as": "The request this cut cannot grant without somebody upstream sorting a case.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "bar-bill-tavern",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Bar-Bill Tavern",
   "as": "The order that cannot be placed here — five drums and five flats, every time.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "jr-cricketts",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "J.R. Crickets",
   "as": "The Atlanta order the 2 Chainz line fixed in place: twenty pieces, all flats, lemon pepper.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "flat",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "flat",
   "as": "The order that asks for nothing but these.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The flat and the drum",
   "as": "The order this whole argument turns into money — the one request that leaves the kitchen holding something.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ]
}