Are boneless wings just chicken nuggets?

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This debate has persisted for years. What's your take on it?

[SirFishFan]

Nope.

Chicken nuggets are flat oval shaped abominations made from undesirable scraps of meat, cartilage, skin, fat and other stuff all blended up and processed into that shape and breaded and fried.

Boneless Chicken Wings in almost all cases tend to be chicken breast meat cut into chunks and battered and fried and tossed in a sauce.

 

It’s like comparing a cheap store brand hotdog with a real Bratwurst or Johnsonville* sausage link. They may look similar but definitely NOT the same thing at all.

 

*Not a sponsored post.

 

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19 minutes ago, SirFishFan said:

Nope.

Chicken nuggets are flat oval shaped abominations made from undesirable scraps of meat, cartilage, skin, fat and other stuff all blended up and processed into that shape and breaded and fried.

Boneless Chicken Wings in almost all cases tend to be chicken breast meat cut into chunks and battered and fried and tossed in a sauce.

 

It’s like comparing a cheap store brand hotdog with a real Bratwurst or Johnsonville* sausage link. They may look similar but definitely NOT the same thing at all.

 

*Not a sponsored post.

 

😂

First time I ever agreed with you

[rmc523]

Nuggets?  no.

 

Boneless wings are basically chicken tenders.

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1 minute ago, rmc523 said:

Nuggets?  no.

 

Boneless wings are basically chicken tenders.

You're right, they would be closer to tenders than nuggets. For some reason, the haters commonly call them nuggets though

[SilverBullet]

This shouldn't be a real question. Nuggets are processed and minced up pastes of meat. They can be delicious to be honest but boneless wings and tenders are simple but smaller cuts of breast meat. 

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Just now, SilverBullet said:

This shouldn't be a real question. Nuggets are processed and minced up pastes of meat. They can be delicious to be honest but boneless wings and tenders are simple but smaller cuts of breast meat. 

Thank you!

[pollythewog]

Vegan chickie nuggs are delicious 

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Just now, pollythewog said:

Vegan chickie nuggs are delicious 

I'd try them. I swim my nuggets in honey mustard anyway so in the end, that's basically all I taste as it is.

[pollythewog]

my amoral carnivore friends have stated they can be just as good if not better than meat ones 

[rmc523]

That said, I am not a big fan of chicken wings for the same reason I'm not a fan of crab - too much work for a few bites of food, if that.

Give me the boneless "wings" anyday.  Why sit there and make a mess to get 2 bites of chicken when I can just have the tender - tossed in the same sauces - where I can eat the whole thing without having to work around bones.

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Just now, rmc523 said:

That said, I am not a big fan of chicken wings for the same reason I'm not a fan of crab - too much work for a few bites of food, if that.

Give me the boneless "wings" anyday.  Why sit there and make a mess to get 2 bites of chicken when I can just have the tender - tossed in the same sauces - where I can eat the whole thing without having to work around bones.

Yep one of the reasons I also prefer boneless wings. Wing connoisseurs mock them, but whatever.

[rmc523]

3 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

Yep one of the reasons I also prefer boneless wings. Wing connoisseurs mock them, but whatever.

Who cares about wing connoisseurs - if anything I'm leaving more wings for them by eating the "fake" wings.  Give me more food and convenience of boneless anyday.

[SilverBullet]

2 hours ago, pollythewog said:

Vegan chickie nuggs are delicious 

There's no chicken in those things so just call them vegan nuggets or veggie nuggets or chemical nuggets. Ridiculous. 

[SilverBullet]

Boneless wings shouldn't be called wings. I understand how that happened... wing places saying they offer a boneless option so they call it a boneless version of their wings. That works for marketing. 

But if I say I want to eat wings don't fucking ask me if I want boneless or bone in, wings have bones in them. It's also not the same type of meat so it's not even close to the same.

If I wanna eat chunks of chicken breast then I'll ask for tenders or strips or popcorn chicken or even "nuggets" if it's a place that calls their chunks nuggets. 

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Just now, SilverBullet said:

Boneless wings shouldn't be called wings. I understand how that happened... wing places saying they offer a boneless option so they call it a boneless version of their wings. That works for marketing. 

But if I say I want to eat wings don't fucking ask me if I want boneless or bone in, wings have bones in them. It's also not the same type of meat so it's not even close to the same.

If I wanna eat chunks of chicken breast then I'll ask for tenders or strips or popcorn chicken or even "nuggets" if it's a place that calls their chunks nuggets. 

[SilverBullet]

1 minute ago, SonOfJack said:

I know I know. I feel the transformation happening almost daily. My wife literally calls me out on it. 

[hovertical]

They are, in fact, chicken nuggets and not boneless wings...because..the meat is not a wing with the bone just removed. It's either a mixture of minced chicken meat or a chunk of white meat with batter. You may call them tenders or nuggets but they are most certainly not boneless wings.

[Valid]

2 hours ago, rmc523 said:

That said, I am not a big fan of chicken wings for the same reason I'm not a fan of crab - too much work for a few bites of food, if that.

The drumsticks are the way to go.

[hovertical]

7 minutes ago, Valid said:

The drumsticks are the way to go.

I think y'all just don't know how to properly (and efficiently) disassemble crab legs and chicken wings. 

As long as the crab legs aren't old AF the meat pops right out when you crack at the right spots. 

Chicken wings pretty easy to slide the meat right off the bone too. 

[Valid]

1 minute ago, hovertical said:

I think y'all just don't know how to properly (and efficiently) disassemble crab legs and chicken wings. 

As long as the crab legs aren't old AF the meat pops right out when you crack at the right spots. 

Chicken wings pretty easy to slide the meat right off the bone too. 

Don't get me wrong: I love wings and I know how to disassemble them. I just like drumsticks better because they have more meat and they are easier to eat.

[hovertical]

4 minutes ago, Valid said:

Don't get me wrong: I love wings and I know how to disassemble them. I just like drumsticks better because they have more meat and they are easier to eat.

My wife prefers the drums but I prefer the wings because the meat gets stuck iny teeth for some reason when I have the drums but not the wings. I find the meat amount to be about the same though. 

I will not touch a full size chicken drum like from a fried chicken joint though. Them things be nasty.

[SilverBullet]

Aren't the drums with wings not the same as the drumsticks/legs? A full chicken wing has the "flats" and "drums" but it's all part of the wing, just cut in half right? 

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16 minutes ago, hovertical said:

As long as the crab legs aren't old AF the meat pops right out when you crack at the right spots. 

Yeah it does. The shitty ones are usually at Chinese buffets. Don't bother with those crab legs. A good one is easy to get the meat from though I only had those like 1 or 2 times in my life. Kinda expensive.

[hovertical]

12 minutes ago, SonOfJack said:

Yeah it does. The shitty ones are usually at Chinese buffets. Don't bother with those crab legs. A good one is easy to get the meat from though I only had those like 1 or 2 times in my life. Kinda expensive.

I usually have a good experience at a place out here called Angry Crab and when I lived back east I usually had good luck at Joe's Crab Shack (I think that's what it was called). 

They're both the boil-in-bag type places but quality has always been there for me in terms of easy to remove meat. You don't even need to use the pickers they give you or the crackers if they're done right and fresh(er)