{
 "id": "party-wing",
 "names": {
  "name": "party wing",
  "aliases": [
   "party wings",
   "wingettes and drumettes",
   "split wings"
  ],
  "said": "Said by a package, not by a person. Nobody orders party wings in a bar."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "P",
  "part_of_speech": "noun"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "party + wing; retail compound, on the pattern of party pack and party size, where party means quantity-for-sharing rather than any occasion",
  "first_attested": "",
  "note": "No dated first use found for this project. Newspaper and trade archives were not searched to exhaustion, and the phrase is a grocery coinage, so it may well predate anything indexed. Sanderson Farms prints it as 'Chicken Party Wings Flats & Drummettes' — the label carries both the marketing word and the two trade words at once.",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A supermarket's name for wings already broken down: tips off, joint cut, drumettes and flats loose in one bag or tray. The work a bar's prep cook does, done at the plant. The word says nothing about seasoning and nothing about size — it says only that you will not be cutting anything.",
  "how": "Thaw, pat dry, cook. The pieces come mixed in whatever ratio the case gave, roughly one drumette per flat, which is why a home cook cannot order all flats and a chain sometimes can.",
  "today": "Sold fresh and frozen, plain and pre-seasoned, and the count drives January. Super Bowl week is the year's peak: the National Chicken Council put the 2026 game at 1.48 billion wings."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "drumette",
   "as": "Half of what is in the bag.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "to": "flat",
   "as": "The other half, in about equal number.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-tip",
   "as": "Removed at the plant, which is the whole point of the product.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-cut",
   "as": "The same two cuts, made by a machine before the bag was sealed.",
   "rel": "fry"
  },
  {
   "to": "super-bowl-sunday",
   "as": "The day these packs are bought for, in numbers a council counts.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "to": "air-fryer",
   "as": "Where a lot of them now end up, bought split because the basket wants them split.",
   "rel": "fry"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings",
  "s:web-ncc-superbowl-lx",
  "s:wp-buffalo-wing"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings"
  },
  "fields": {
   "etymology": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings",
    "note": "first_attested left empty: no dated use found"
   },
   "text.how": {
    "tier": "tradition"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:web-ncc-superbowl-lx"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "type": "term",
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A supermarket's name for wings already broken down: tips off, joint cut, drumettes and flats loose in one bag or tray. The work a bar's prep cook does, done at the plant.",
 "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": "Half of what is in the bag.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "to": "flat",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "flat",
   "as": "The other half, in about equal number.",
   "rel": "part"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-tip",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing tip",
   "as": "Removed at the plant, which is the whole point of the product.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "wing-cut",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the wing cut",
   "as": "The same two cuts, made by a machine before the bag was sealed.",
   "rel": "fry"
  },
  {
   "to": "super-bowl-sunday",
   "type": "event",
   "name": "Super Bowl Sunday",
   "as": "The day these packs are bought for, in numbers a council counts.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "to": "air-fryer",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the air fryer",
   "as": "Where a lot of them now end up, bought split because the basket wants them split.",
   "rel": "fry"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings",
   "kind": "dataset",
   "title": "Chicken Party Wings Flats & Drummettes — Sanderson Farms",
   "publisher": "Open Food Facts",
   "url": "https://us.openfoodfacts.org/product/0268408511140/chicken-party-wings-flats-drummettes-sanderson-farms",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "the package name as printed"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:web-ncc-superbowl-lx",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Americans to Eat 1.48 Billion Chicken Wings for Super Bowl LX",
   "publisher": "National Chicken Council",
   "url": "https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/americans-to-eat-1-48-billion-chicken-wings-for-super-bowl-lx/",
   "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"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "text.today": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-ncc-superbowl-lx"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:web-openfoodfacts-party-wings",
   "note": "first_attested left empty: no dated use found"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "wing-cut",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the wing cut",
   "as": "What a grocery calls the two kept pieces when it sells them already split.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "chings-hot-wings",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Ching's Hot Wings",
   "as": "The other count on this menu, sold up to four hundred pieces at a time.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "national-chicken-council",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "National Chicken Council",
   "as": "The split pair its count is made of, drumette and flat sold as two pieces.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "super-bowl-sunday",
   "type": "event",
   "name": "Super Bowl Sunday",
   "as": "The cut the billion is counted in — drumette and flat, sold as two pieces.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "drumette",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "drumette",
   "as": "What a grocery calls it when it is bagged with the flats.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "flat",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "flat",
   "as": "Bagged with the drumettes and sold as one product.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing-tip",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing tip",
   "as": "A pack defined partly by this piece's absence.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "wing",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "wing",
   "as": "What a grocery calls the drumette and the flat when it sells them already split.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-flat-and-the-drum",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The flat and the drum",
   "as": "What a grocery calls the pair once a processor has already split them.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "the-price-of-a-wing",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The price of a wing",
   "as": "How the grocery sells it, and the line USDA's retail report actually prices.",
   "rel": "term"
  }
 ]
}