a wordall flats
also: all drums · all flats no drums · flats only
Tacked to the end of the order: 'twenty, lemon pepper, all flats.'
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.
First seen. 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
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. Cited · wp-lemon-pepper-wings
How it is done Tradition
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.
The particulars
| part of speech | phrase |
|---|---|
| region | Atlanta, The United States |
| confidence | medium · needs verification · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
Who talks about it
Where we got it
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.