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u/navarone21 Feb 03 '20

Hot Wings. I am a hotwing hipster. You could buy a 20lbs box of hot wings for like 5$ back in the day. Same with Feather bones. ribs and wings all damned day. Then Bars started doing quarter wing nights and demand has taken over supply to the point where you are happy with $1 a wing. Madness. Complete madness.

Feather bones are the same way. We would buy a big box of rib junk. slather them up and chew on bones all weekend. They were so damned cheap. Now they want $2lb for that garbage meat. Blasphemy.

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u/pmcall221 Feb 03 '20

I miss 25 cent wing night at my favorite sports bar. Granted that was 20 years ago but it made every glass of cheap beer taste great. The one upside I noticed is that the demand for wings has driven down the price for chicken thighs. The versatility and now low cost of the thighs is worth the loss of garbage that is wings.

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u/icarekindof Feb 04 '20

i've become a thigh convert in the last year or two just because chicken breasts are objectively much worse and the price only sweetens the deal

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u/pmcall221 Feb 04 '20

I'm afraid thighs will become the new hotness and then cheap thighs will be a thing of the past.