The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that chicken wings billed as "boneless" can actually include bones.

No bones about it

    • ericjmoreyEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Ohio is a problem and I’m done pretending it’s not.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      Same way if you call something a “wing” it has to be a wing? (I think this should be a thing but since that’s not true the boneless part isn’t)

      Edit: I said that badly, let me rephrase (and this isn’t my opinion I’m just trying to decode the logic): Because “Boneless Wing” already isnt technically true to what the product is (it’s not a wing), then the other part doesn’t have to be technically true (it’s not always bonless).

      Now if someone sold, a boneless steak with a bone, then under this logic it would not be allowed.

  • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    5 months ago

    Well boneless wings has always been a bold faced lie anyway since they don’t make them with wing meat.

    I remember arguing on the phone with a person taking my order years ago the first time they offered me “white meat boneless wings” and I tried to point out that wings are dark meat not white meat so what they were selling wasn’t really wings. They got pissed.

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      5 months ago

      I’ve never seen dark wing meat. Drumsticks sometimes have darkish parts but it’s no comparison to the color of actual dark meat

  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Maybe an actual wing got mixed up with the ‘boneless’ ones? I can’t fathom how a (5 CM!!) piece of bone could get in the meat and be unnoticed by both the cook and the diner (who presumably chewed it before failing to swallow?)

    • ericjmoreyEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Do not look into “chicken processing”. You will be disappointed more than you can imagine.

    • ericjmoreyEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Bonless wings can be anything. The term has no legal meaning.

      Did you know that they sell pork wings in Florida and other Southern US states?

      • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Why did you think you’ve never seen a pig fly? It’s because they harvest all the wings.

        Same deal with buffalo.

        • ericjmoreyEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about zoology to dispute it.

  • workerONE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    415·
    5 months ago

    Edit: A diner was injured when a chicken bone became lodged in his esophagus. He sued for damages.

    My original post: I can’t understand how this is a legal dispute. If their boneless wings have bones then don’t order them again.

    Second edit: I bet they’re not even wings! /s