Why are chicken wings so popular? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ThirdNerd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm not normally a chicken wing eater, but I hear about others liking them. Thought I'd get some at the store the other day, but they were $3.99 a pound while drumsticks were only $1.99 a pound.

For you chicken wing enthusiasts - why would chicken wings be worth the $2 more a pound? What are you doing with them? Talk me out of the drumsticks I bought instead.

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[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They used to be thrown away or used for stock, poor people turned them into trendy food and now it's expensive. Same with Osso bucco.

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Damned poor people and their master plan of trend setting. shakes fist

Really though, poor people buy what they can afford and do what they can to make it delicious. Think the same thing happened with bacon and lobster.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think they planned on making it trendy, but cheap tasty food sure has a way of getting popular.

[-] Tathas@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I recall reading that lobster used to only be deemed fit enough food for prisoners.

[-] eclectic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

And lamb shanks! Used to be so cheap. Not any more.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had my first taste at a dive bar in 1989. 5 cents apiece!

[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

And lobster! Used to be prison food.

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