{
 "id": "flat",
 "names": {
  "name": "flat",
  "aliases": [
   "wingette",
   "flats",
   "wing flat",
   "second segment wing portion",
   "mid-section"
  ],
  "said": "'Flats or drums?' — and most places cannot answer it."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "F",
  "part_of_speech": "noun"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "the adjective flat, turned into a noun for the piece it describes; the competing name wingette is wing + -ette, the same diminutive that built drumette",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "Two words, one piece. The National Chicken Council calls it \"the mid-section or 'flat'\"; Wikipedia's poultry article gives it as \"the 'wingette' (also called the 'flat')\". USDA's grading captions use neither, labelling it 'Grade A Second Segment Wing Portion (Wing Flat)'. *Inference —* wingette reads as packer's English and flat as counter English, and the counter is winning.",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:web-ncc-wings-hot-topic"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Middle segment, two bones with a gap between them, and more skin per bite than any other piece of a chicken. Flat because it is — it lies down in the fryer basket and comes out on one plane. Two per bird.",
  "how": "Twist out the smaller bone, then pull the larger one, and the meat comes free in a strip; people who order all flats are usually doing that. More surface means more crust and more sauce clinging, which is the case its partisans make against the drumette."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "drumette",
   "as": "The other half of the split, and the side of the argument this one is against.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing",
   "as": "One of the two pieces a menu means when it says wing.",
   "rel": "whole"
  },
  {
   "to": "all-flats",
   "as": "The order that asks for nothing but these.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-tip",
   "as": "Attached to this piece until somebody cuts it off; a few kitchens leave it on.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "as": "The argument this word is the other half of.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-cut",
   "as": "Where the second cut goes, and why this piece keeps two bones.",
   "rel": "fry"
  },
  {
   "to": "party-wing",
   "as": "Bagged with the drumettes and sold as one product.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-buffalo-wing",
  "s:wp-chicken-as-food",
  "s:wp-poultry",
  "s:web-ncc-wings-hot-topic",
  "s:web-usda-ams-wing"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-poultry"
  },
  "fields": {
   "etymology": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-ncc-wings-hot-topic",
    "note": "the USDA caption wording could not be read from the AMS page itself — see the note on s:web-usda-ams-wing"
   },
   "text.how": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "schema": 1,
 "type": "term",
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Middle segment, two bones with a gap between them, and more skin per bite than any other piece of a chicken. Flat because it is — it lies down in the fryer basket and comes out on one plane. Two per bird.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "drumette",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "drumette",
   "as": "The other half of the split, and the side of the argument this one is against.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing",
   "as": "One of the two pieces a menu means when it says wing.",
   "rel": "whole"
  },
  {
   "to": "all-flats",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "all flats",
   "as": "The order that asks for nothing but these.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-tip",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing tip",
   "as": "Attached to this piece until somebody cuts it off; a few kitchens leave it on.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The flat and the drum",
   "as": "The argument this word is the other half of.",
   "rel": "story"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-cut",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the wing cut",
   "as": "Where the second cut goes, and why this piece keeps two bones.",
   "rel": "fry"
  },
  {
   "to": "party-wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "party wing",
   "as": "Bagged with the drumettes and sold as one product.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ],
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  {
   "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-chicken-as-food",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Chicken as food",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_as_food",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-poultry",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Poultry",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-ncc-wings-hot-topic",
   "kind": "org",
   "title": "Chicken Wings – A Hot Topic!",
   "publisher": "National Chicken Council",
   "url": "https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/chicken-wings-a-hot-topic/",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "undated feature built on the 2012 Wing Report; the page that says the count is of wing PORTIONS, splits them half foodservice half retail, and explains the flapper export"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-usda-ams-wing",
   "kind": "org",
   "title": "Chicken Wings (poultry grading photographs)",
   "publisher": "US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service",
   "url": "https://www.ams.usda.gov/book/wing",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "AMS grading captions name the cuts 'Grade A First Segment Wing Portion (Wing Drumette)' and 'Grade A Second Segment Wing Portion (Wing Flat)'. The page and the AMS Poultry Grading Manual PDF both refused this project's fetch on 2026-09-16 (403/503); the caption wording was read from the search index, not from the page itself. Records citing it carry needs_verification."
  }
 ],
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  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-poultry"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-ncc-wings-hot-topic",
   "note": "the USDA caption wording could not be read from the AMS page itself — see the note on s:web-usda-ams-wing"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "wing-cut",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the wing cut",
   "as": "The middle piece, two bones and the most skin, which is the argument's other side.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "from": "all-flats",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "all flats",
   "as": "The piece the order is asking for, and why.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "drumette",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "drumette",
   "as": "The other piece off the same joint, and the one people compare it against.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "flapper",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "flapper",
   "as": "The piece it hangs off until the first cut.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "party-wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "party wing",
   "as": "The other half, in about equal number.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-tip",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing tip",
   "as": "What it is attached to, and what it gets cut away from.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing",
   "as": "The middle piece, two bones and the most skin.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "from": "boneless-is-not-a-wing",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Boneless is not a wing",
   "as": "One of the two pieces a bone-in order actually contains, and the reason the count works differently.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The flat and the drum",
   "as": "The two-boned middle piece, the one federal regulation refuses to name.",
   "rel": "part"
  }
 ]
}