Wing Country

Wing CountryStories (6)

The origin fight, the ranch war, the long ones.

Essays (5)

Boneless is not a wing

Berkheimer v. REKM, The boneless wing case

On 25 July 2024 the Supreme Court of Ohio held, 4 to 3, that a diner who swallowed a chicken bone from a boneless wing could not take his negligence claim to a jury, because he could reasonably have guarded against it.

The flat and the drum

Flats against drums

A chicken wing has three joints and yields two pieces a kitchen will sell: the drumette, which is the humerus with the meat pushed to one end, and the flat, which is the two-boned middle section carrying most of the…

The origin fight

Who invented the Buffalo wing

Two Buffalo kitchens claim the wing, and neither claim rests on a document. The Anchor Bar dates the dish to the night of 4 March 1964 and tells the story three different ways.

The price of a wing

What a wing costs

In 1964 the wing was the cheapest thing on the bird, which is the premise every origin story rests on.

Ranch against blue cheese

The dip argument

Buffalo sends out blue cheese. America buys ranch. Blue cheese reached the wing plate on the first night of the Anchor Bar story, off the antipasto tray, and it is still the house cup along the city's wing trail.

Where it came from (1)

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Sources and licences, What this project stands on

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