Well the appeal basically boils down to they’re fucking delicious; particularly when compared to other chicken parts seasoned in the same way.

Your focus on the meat of it all is probably your downfall. Fat brings the flavor and chicken skin is packed with it. Wings, far and away have the best skin to meat ratio of all the chicken parts.

Im sorry to say, chicken wings could quite possibly be the worst thing for you. Its the absolute fattest part of the chicken. Its really all fat. Then they are covered in sugary sauce or fatty sauce. They aren't chicken breast, they're the dark meat covered in skin. The dipped in delicious butter/oil rich buffalo sauce. The best things ever...

That’s why I go boneless “wings” instead. I make sure it’s actual dark meat pieces and not just nuggets though.

No bugs? I enjoy most of the sea bugs (with butter). Also eaten crickets, meal worms, and ant eggs/larvae.

I'm cool with someone else enjoying it, it's just not for me. 🤷

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I had buffalo wings for breakfast with oil rich buffalo sauce this morning.

I never understood the difficulty argument. It's not like these people would be open to just slamming a glass of Soylent because it's easy.

I could, though, it’s an option.

I'm doing keto. I'm allowed.

The last time someone suggested people eat it, they cut off her head. And rightfully so.

After some practice, you only need two bites and maybe a little nibble for each one. Then they're great.

For king crab, yes. For snow crab, you can open the leg with the right technique. Snap it in the middle and you can remove one half of the shell then pull the meat out of the other half.

The same with drum sticks!

Cooking is supposed to be the difficult part and once I sit down to eat I don't want to work for the food any more! Just let me eat it.

"Healthy" in regards to foods is problematic at best. It all depends on the rest of your diet, your needs, and especially your dosage (portions and portion size).

Could a small amount of chicken wings be a great supplement? Sure, it has all sorts of useful micro and macro nutrients, if that's what you need. Could you have a bunch without any impact to your health? Possibly, if you're doing keto. Would your health improve if you cut them out? Also a maybe, if it doesn't work with the rest of your lifestyle and genetics.

Example: Chicken is high in omega-6. This is bad for some people, but only some. And I bet you hadn't considered it as a factor in whether it's healthy.

OK, I wasn't thinking of the sauce, that part could be unhealthy.

Wings are white meat though.

Funny you mention that. I absolutely went through a DIY Soylent phase, but I was playing around with the recipe(s) via nutrition tracker apps, aiming to hit targets via "real" foods, not supplements, and aiming for "different" recipes. It's actually not as difficult as you might expect, and I don't even mind eating the same meal for a good chunk of my meals, but it just.... didn't.... work... Maybe it's the lack of chewing?

Have you ever made buffalo sauce? It's literally 50% butter and 25% honey (and its delicious)

No, I may or may not have had it at a restaurant or something, but if so, don't remember it. It's not a usual food where I live.

What do you mean by "didn't work?"

Based. Completely unnecessary harm.

Why not?

It's a protein, so it really just depends on what your eating with them. As long as you're getting balanced nutrition, there's no reason Chicken Wings can't be the protein choice every day.

They are an essential component of the Team Sports industry

• protein
• crispy crunchy
• flavourful (whether from being nicely cooked or from all the optional extra stuff)
• takes some time to eat, slowing me down (so I don't overeat as easily, and can sit down and actually watch the game recap without finishing 20% of the way through)

also, chicken wings come in sizes from "this looks like it was a baby" to "there is no way this chicken was healthy before slaughter"

I like a good midsize crispy wing with spices and just a dab of sauce.

eating slop bowls gets boring

200 million chicken get slaughtered each day, they lived a life of horror veyond comprehension. If they are lucky they are the 50% that lands in the meat grinder after birth.
And people here are worried that it might be unhealthy or that they need their protein.

Why would you eat cake without butter creme frosting? That's the entire point of cake. Hand me a piece of cake with WHIPPED CREAM, and I'm gonna, gonna, gonna...well, I'm gonna eat it, but I'd rather have buttercream frosting.

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I was still "hungry". I was definitely getting calories, macros, etc., but I think it being in liquid form, no chewing, meant that some of the biological processes weren't getting the expected feedback.

They are fried and fatty. Some protein, but mostly fats.
Also, vegetables are made of protein.

Lucky animals are those who don't live?

Vegan are so scary.

You..you don't have to fry them

Part of being an adult is knowing that OP needs to mind their own business.

That’s exactly what a chicken would say

Why would you eat cake without butter creme frosting?

I know you’re just ribbing me, but if I may be neurodivergently serious - despite having an unrelenting sweet tooth, it comes down to two things:

1. Too heavy
2. Too sweet

Either one by itself is okay, the two together is just a major hell naw.

The heaviness is also why I am not a fan of most cheesecakes. A super-light one, fine. But I frequently cannot finish most slices of cheesecake unless they’re particularly narrow slices, far thinner than usual.

I raise chickens to eat. They don't need to be raised in a torture chamber so they can be feed, bred or slaughtered on an assembly line. You only need that if need that so people can eat chicken for cheaper then veggies and for every meal.

You could also have chickens just live as part of an ecosystem and never kill them yourself. They actually don't need to be tortured to exist

Yes of course! Many farmers actually love their animals and take good care of them. And yes, some people have chicken, gooses, or some other farm animals as pet. For some, such as donkeys, they are rised despite a lost of material interest ; mostly to maintain exsitant some animals who served us since forgotten times.

I don't understand how some people can be vegan without be heartless. I can understand vegetalian, but I think keeping alife a wide diversity of farms animals is a duty for humanity.

To be fair I love my dogs, my cats, my brothers and sisters, kids, and care a lot for my neighbors too but I don't plan on slaughtering and eating any of them or eating any of their bodily productions so I just don't see the connection you're making about vegans being heartless.

Well, without rising farm animals, many of them would not survive. We could let more wild spaces for them, but even so we would still have to accept some extinctions. And I don't think we would really let them enough space for their needs. So I see veganism as an acceptation of this extinctions. As the vegan contributor said earlier, they see animals who don't live or are killed very early as the luckiest.

I agree that we do not anymore have an absolute need to keep rising animals. Thanks to our technological progress, due for a significant part to our exploitation of animals. But so we would now fire them and let them die? This sound heartless to me.

https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/crispy-baked-chicken-wings/#wprm-recipe-container-10130

Legit baked wing recipe. Baked but they come out as crispy as fried. You use baking powder and dry seasonings and pat the wings dry before baking. So damn good.

Deep fried chicken wings with skins on are still more protein than fat, and that about as fatty as they can get. What are you on?

Yeah, there was something strange about not masticating, but I did find it filling and unexpectedly satisfying.

Finally, a kindred soul. Everyone I knew in high school and college was obsessed with getting wings all the time. I don't get it

It's not an argument my dude, just a preference. I'm lazy and don't like wings much to begin with so the fact that they're extra effort just puts them down another notch. They're annoying.

Part of being an adult is eating chicken wings everyday for a week until you get bored because you can. lol

reminds me of the saying - the difference between wisdom and knowledge is, knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit and wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

I kind of think along the lines of knowing I could eat a whole dozen donuts and knowing I shouldn’t eat a whole dozen donuts … all bets are off if they’re warm Krispy Kreme

I don’t really like chicken wings. Too much messy work for too little reward.

Why the fuck not? I'm not switching to breast. Breast meat sucks.

Every time the family orders out trays of wings, I can't help myself from commenting "what a lovely tray of death!", pointing out that it cost one chicken for every four "wings" (two drummets and two flats) . It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves where food comes from and to be appreciative and grateful for their sustenance.

There's always leftovers too, which I hate going to waste. Very easy to incorporate into other foods (fried rice, soup, salads, etc).

Not OP but:

The frustration you feel from being condescended to by a vegan is not comparable to the suffering produced by the meat industry.

So much so, that any frustrations you feel are beneath my consideration; I don't give a fuck if you are annoyed by my proselytization.

why are you satisfying your craving to be a dick

This is a strawman. As a vegan I believe I have a moral imperative to argue against bad faith arguments like yours.