‘Boneless’ chicken wings can have bones, the Ohio Supreme Court says
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5052004/boneless-chicken-wings-ohio-supreme-court
I take this as a positive. The Ohio Supreme Court just protected trans rights, when it applies to nuggets.
Not surprised this happened in Ohio
Funny headline aside, semantics and trying to understand expected meanings of words and phrases is fucky and makes for an interesting case. Per the article the court decision was only 4-3 (i.e., close), and the dissent seemed – as a person who admittedly is not well-versed in the language normally used by Ohio’s Supreme Court – to be pretty strongly opinionated.
From the snippets in the article I find it pretty easy to sympathize with both sides of the argument!
edit: the full text is available here (the original unarchived source is being hammered by curious people) - you can download the file to read it in full-res
The question seems to be: “did the restaurant exercise reasonable duty of care”. There is a lot more to the case than the fun-but-sensationalized headline and even article.
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That’s as maybe, it’s still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don’t you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy would it?
Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.
Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)
Milton: It says ‘crunchy frog’ quite clearly.
Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won’t expect there to be a frog in there. They’re bound to think it’s some form of mock frog.
Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words ‘crunchy frog’, and replace them with the legend ‘crunchy raw unboned real dead frog’, if you want to avoid prosecution.
Ok as someone not from the states, wtf are boneless chicken wings?
we call the 2 cuts of meat we traditionally take off of poultry’s arms “wings.” typically you’ll get one half of the arm versus another. you’d either get a drumstick wing, with all the meat on one bone; or flats, which have less meat & two bones, much like your lower arm.
chicken wings served this way are very popular here but many do not like or do not want to deal with the bones. so additionally, processed “boneless” chicken wings are available. they’re exactly the same thing as chicken nuggets usually, just bigger. ground poultry reconstituted into morsels
I would argue that unlike nuggets they are cuts off the chicken breast and you can still see “threads” of meat as opposed to nuggets which are ground into a paste. I know it’s a home recipe but this is what I usually experience at restaurants https://www.persnicketyplates.com/boneless-wings/
All the fast food workers in Ohio should start making sure that they they get some good bones in there every time they go for fast food chicken.
it’s joever.
And you chucklefucks say we vegans eat weird shit…
My seitan nuggets taste the same and I didn’t have to kill anyone, or anything, and I don’t have to worry about some poor child in a factory on the other side of the country removing bones so I don’t have to deal with the horrors of factory farming.
Other than not eating the meat of an animal, i don’t think vegan can claim superiority about all the other stuff. Someone have to plant and harvest and process and make your vegan nugget, you know…
And it’s no more or less likely to be a “child in the other side of the country”
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I didn’t have to kill anyone, or anything,
most people don’t kill anything for nonvegan nuggets
I do. This is why I am banned from McDonalds worldwide.
A vegitable field is absent of any insects, birds, or rodents, they were all slaughtered, starved, or poisoned to bring you your vegi nuggets.
