I used to be a leg guy. It only made sense...it's less work, right? You dip the thing and gnaw it off the bone instead of fiddling with twice the amount of bones, right? Who wants to sit there with their tongue in between two chicken bones, sauce dripping down their chin, teasing their hunger with hard work and little reward? Right?
WRONG.
The attached video made me a believer. It changed my life. If you don't have time to listen to some Russian dude explain the thing, let me simplify it:
1. Twist one bone, remove
2. Twist other bone, remove
3. Enjoy your de-boned chicken wing
Why is this better?
Be honest with yourself. Dipping that drumstick is a pain in the ass. It's always too big for the dipping cup, and you can only sauce the bottom of the wing. Once you have that first bite, you're left with an un-dippable second bite that you simply have to pretend to enjoy. It only gets worse once the dipping sauce starts running out (ie after two gigantic drumsticks). With the far superior de-boned chicken wing, this problem is virtually non existent. Watch in awe as it contorts itself to the shape of your dipping cup, mopping up every last ounce of sauce like a sponge, every bite coated in sauce and delicious skin.
And don't even get me started on the meat quality. The leg is pure chewy cartilage and dry dark meat. The chicken's wing boasts tender strands of white meat, both healthier and more flavorful than the meat in their legs.
When you consider all of these factors, there is only one true option here. That option, ladies and gentlemen, is the anatomically useless chicken wing; made by Mother Nature purely for the enjoyment of humans who know how to properly enjoy it.
Consider yourself enlightened: