AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Festival 2013

After having thoroughly enjoyed the Phoenix Invitational Brewers Festival in December and muddling through the Spring Swing Beer Bash in Mesa this March, we can't say enough about how excited we are that the Ameri-CAN Canned Craft Beer Festival is only 2 days away. At noon on Saturday, May 18th, the gates will open at the Scottsdale Civic Center and Read more

The Hungry Monk

I recently read a review from some seemingly nice fellows about The Hungry Monk in Chandler. They extolled the virtues of its beer list, the convenience of its location with regard to proximity of other craft beer hotspots (specifically San Tan Brewery and Whole Foods) and mentioned they loved the wings... Pause. ...the boneless wings. I have to give credit to these Read more

The folks that run Wingstock recently referred to us as the Phoenix wing experts. Pretty quick after that someone let us know they did not feel the same. Their reason being that we think Native New Yorker is one of the worst wing places (we don't actually, we consider them pretty average) and we should have them ranked number Read more

Spring Swing Beer Bash - 2013, Mesa AZ

Better late than never, right? With all the changes happening both to the site (redesign might be coming soon!) and to our lives (apparently you need money to do this stuff on a consistent basis without sponsors), things have been rather chaotic in the last few months. Our posts have become more sparse and so when we ARE able Read more

Wingstock 2013: Will The True King of Wings Please Stand Up?

Giant Chicken Man preps for his new movie deal with Marvel On March 30th, restaurants from all around the valley will gather to compete in this year's annual Wingstock Festival. We wrote all about last year's event, and how much fun we had there. Games and attractions for the kids will be present (I think there's a jumping castle. I also Read more

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Point/Counterpoint: Boneless Wings

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Tyler Posted in Point/Counterpoint | 2 Comments

Boneless Wings

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Point
by Tyler

I hate boneless wings. Scratch that, I would hate boneless wings if there was a such thing as a boneless wing but unless they are breeding some kind of mutant chicken that doesn’t have bones in its wings that is not a real food.

So, since it is obviously not a real chicken wing I have to assume they just form a nasty chicken glob by wadding together a mash of whatever leftover chicken parts they have laying around after removing the good parts for real food. Then they bread them and fry them and cover them with buffalo sauce so they can sell them to suckers. It is like a chicken nugget with hot sauce but they somehow tricked adults into eating them and serve them up at sports bars.

I honestly can’t figure out what the point of having boneless chicken globs on your menu is. If I want a chicken wing I will order fucking chicken wings. If I want something boneless with buffalo sauce on it I will order buffalo tenders (not that buffalo tenders aren’t sort of a disgrace themselves but at least they are a stand-alone item without the buffalo sauce). Do we really need something in between? Do we really need some kind of chicken wing/tender hybrid from hell?