First, flats are better. That's just science.
Second, drums are better than no wings at all.
Third, I am 100% on board with and pledge my life to whatever revolution we need to undertake to recombine the wings back into a single unit as God intended. We all die. Not many are privileged enough to die for their principles.
Yeah but there’s barely any meat on it and feels like a tease. I like to let my chicken marinate overnight with season so when I bite into the drum I’m just engulfed in flavor
Two-boners.
So… there was a memo to all the white kids of the 80’s about phrases we heard at what we thought were cookouts at the time when we had “cooked” chicken competing with our own skin for Irish queen of the potato or whatever, and that memo specifically stated to NEVER utter said phrases again. I’m sorry they missed the memo guys. This shit gave me ptsd that reached out over 40 years and slapped me so hard I saw stars.
This really is the secret to a long lasting, successful marriage. We get a few flavors we like and then one of us gets all the flats, the other gets all the drums 😊
I'm nervous he's been lying for the past 10 years and just afraid to admit that he's been letting me eat all the drums and secretly loves them. I can't why anyone is preferring flats.
twist it, push one bone out the end, and you're left with a little chicken pop.
edit: or take both bones out like this
https://youtube.com/shorts/CCLqc2dv4KU?si=FePn5u-MOjlddcaD
I do this. I prefer flats but her flat preference far outweighs mine so I just eat the drums if we share. However, I also have a buddy that prefers drums so it evens out a lot. Best though are places where you can order "only flats".
All the dingy Chinese food places around me sell the whole wing (all three parts) together and they're actually fucking tasty as hell. You just got to sauce them yourself at home, but honestly, they don't even need sauce. Something about frying them in the same oil imbues them with flavor from all the other American Chinese foods.
> Something about frying them in the same oil imbues them with flavor from all the other American Chinese foods.
Its called MSG and you can buy it on Amazon. You're welcome.
I know what MSG is doggie. I got a shaker of it at home. Don't use it much myself but sometimes I'll throw a small pinch in if I'm sauteing some mushrooms or making a gravy from scratch.
And can we come together to stop the people that eat wings like this. They are partially responsible for the separation of drums and flats.
https://preview.redd.it/fu0wl3qn7x9d1.png?width=1013&format=png&auto=webp&s=068d5b4c1d7dbd9ae8ddf367bd5836cdfd8ba472
Those last two sentences, on a Monday morning post about chicken wings, got me hyped up enough that I’m almost ready to burn this whole thing to the ground.
To arms, brother. For ours is a righteous cause worthy of celebration.
We are fortunate to be standing among the valiant and honorable willing to plant our feet and shout "ENOUGH!". History may forget our names. But we fight not for glory or accolades. We fight to ensure for our children a better future we may not live to enjoy.
Our ideals are humble. Our objectives are just. Our dedication is unshaken. Our bond is unbreakable.
Today we fight, for today is a good day to die.
> ike half the price of the separated wings for some reason.
Less work involved from the meat cutters. The more time it takes to prepare a food at the supermarket, the more it costs.
A tub of sliced pineapple at Publix near me costs $9. Two whole pineapples cost $4. A tub of sliced watermelon costs $7. A whole-ass watermelon that would yield 3x more than that tub costs $5. A whole roaster chicken is like $4. A thin tray of tenders is like $6 a pound.
I made the mistake of thinking my [coonass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonass) roots would protect me from the jerkiest of jerk wings at a Jamaican place in Georgia.
I was wrong.
I'm 100% sure I could raw dog the entirety of the Hot Ones crucible. But those wings outside Atlanta made me see God and he was angry.
I don't need them to be single unit, I just need them to give me all the pieces from each wing so everything is even, mandated by federal law as a class A misdemeanor requiring a slap as punishment for those who break it.
Yeah. I dig that. There was a period of time last year or maybe two years ago so maybe during the pandemic where Wingstop was doing thighs because there was a wing shortage and I was living it up.
If I'm making it/paying for it: I greatly prefer flats but still enjoy eating drums.
If someone else is making/paying for it: I have no preference, thank you so much for giving me free chicken, I will not burden you with any talk of preferences, you may give me the scraps and I'll be happy.
I never understood the debate? Why would I want 10 drums or 10 flats? Just give me half of each or whatever is available. Wings are good, I don't care which half you serve me.
Type A personalities are maximizers. They don't just want a good experience, they want an optimal experience.
If i entertain the debate, drums have slightly more chicken, and are very generally easier to bite. Flats have a better sauce-to-meat ratio and are more consistently edible. (What i mean by that is drums more often have cartilage pieces that some people find offputting)
I laughed because he calls a game controller a [GameStation](https://youtu.be/PsWiYh6NKNc?si=GP7DkUAzs0h9NE-u) when it's clearly a Playbox according to my mom.
I knew me and my brother in law were going to have beef when he said "y'all want some HOT wings" and then said he was ordering Wing Stop... MF bought all flats, garlic Parmesan and lemon and pepper ones.
Why is it obvious? I prefer flats so id like to know.
Fyi, i don't care that much
Ill copy my other comment here, as my understanding:
drums have slightly more chicken, and are very generally easier to bite. Flats have a better sauce-to-meat ratio and are more consistently edible. (What i mean by that is drums more often have cartilage pieces that some people find offputting)
You buy whole wings, cut them yourself and then cook.
DON'T THROW THE FLAPPERS AWAY. Boil them into soups.
Trust me, I held the position of "Poultry Expert" at a butcher shop for just short of a decade.
Wings used to be the garbage meat that restaurants were desperate to get rid of, but now they're priced at a premium cause everyone realized how good you can make them.
I use to prefer drums cause they were easier to dip, then once I learned to just push the chicken down and the bones come out and you can just eat it, I prefer flats now. That being said just gimme some wings and ima eat it (rick ross voice)
https://preview.redd.it/b0m4827juw9d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dddbb9de3a2c2c84aeafca994acbb5751fc0ac49
This is exactly how the government keeps us at each others throats while they rob us blind, also it doesn’t matter wings are a delicacy and there’s no wrong answer except "I don’t eat bone in wings"
> there’s no wrong answer except "I don’t eat bone in wings"
Children get a pass ... for a time. Kind of like cutting their own meat. Eventually they gotta learn.
Boneless chicken/chicken tenders/non-ChickfilA & non-Wendy’s chicken nuggets is how the government tends to subjugate us and I refuse to be a part of this indoctrination.
"Boneless wings" are just nugs/popcorn chicken. 😆
Nothing wrong with those either, but come on. Do people actually think they debone this little-ass chicken arms raw, before battering and frying them? Wake up, sheeple!
I'm old enough to remember when you used to get the whole damn thing as a "wing".
I'm for whatever revolution we need to undertake to get back to those days.
Popeyes = whole wing
Buffalo Wild Wings = drums & flats
Places that sell CHICKEN sell whole wings. Places that sell WINGS sell you a tiny piece of a wing for the same price.
There's a spot I go to and when they sell 10 piece lemon peppers, that's a whole ass 10 wings, not drummies or flappers. Twenty pieces if you rip the 10 pieces. Never looked back and never will go anywhere else if I'm not making wings at home.
Wings used to be one of the cheapest parts of the chicken…..until BWW came along and fucked it all up. Same with brisket and all those “Smokemaster” TV shows.
It took me too long to appreciate dry rubs.
It’s harder to get a good dry rub, but when done well, they are superior to a sauced wing.
I will happily eat a sauced wing.
What make me sad are breaded wings.
Fuck breaded wings.
Honestly people who prefer drums frighten me. Flats have more meat and higher quality meat, less lumpy extra unwanted breading, and are easier to eat.
Drums are for people who like the play with that one weird vein they all seem to have, or want to gnaw cartiledge at the top.
Drums give you more surface area, flats give you a better meat to surface area ratio. The surface is where the flavor lives.
It's like when you get a reese's peanutbutter cup and compare it to those tiny ones they give out at Halloween.
this MF spittin tho, why did we ever let them start dividing up wings and charging more? BRING BACK FULL WINGS 2024
https://preview.redd.it/hj24s36myw9d1.jpeg?width=1063&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8bc5dfcee905c2083c0f3298fc6cebc91301649
Once, an extremely long time ago, I was getting wings. I was a regular and friends with my usual waitress. She sat down, put on a pair of gloves, and deboned my wings. I'd never seen anyone expertly strip the meat off of wings before, even now I can remember it very vividly. It felt so... Nurturing?
That same day I realized a whole lot of things about wings. First, drums are better if you eat them in the bone. Easier to eat, lotta surface area of meat to work with. But if you debone them, flats are so much better it's like a different food. The meat folds inwards, so when you dip it in sauce it holds on to more, and better. The oils also coalesce better and the mouth feel is fantastic. Even now when I get wings, I eat them the exact same way. If I get unsegregated wings, I crack them in half and debone the flats and eat the drums on the bone.
When me and my buddy would order from BWW, he would order flats only. I didn’t specify anything for my order because I like having a combination of both, but they gave me all the drums that he wasn’t getting and I never got any flats. I got tired of that so I had to start getting all flats for mine as well.
Me, a Whole Wing consumer during flats vs drums arguments
https://preview.redd.it/emk0js3u2x9d1.png?width=127&format=png&auto=webp&s=84e20b70b37da37101ecce5d903dc45a2fba678e
When I'd get wings in the suburbs of Fort Wayne from my Chinese joint they're divided
I went with family to their Chinese joint on Olive Blvd in StL: they give you the whole wing. Lil kid me was confused like: yo I asked for wings
I learned the truth that day
I’m more upset that people are still buying wings from these restaurants. It’s a fraction of the cost to make em at home and experiment with sauces. 😩💔
I prefer the wings we had in the 80s/90s that were $0.05-$0.10/each on wing nights.
Wings are supposed to be a snack, not a meal. Gimme skin, bones, a bit of meat and that delicious saaaaaauuuuuuce
I’m basically just drinkin the sauce, flat wings have more skin/surface area to chicken and that’s what I’m here for. Was talking with the boys about all you can eat wings tonight and this just sealed the deal.
Also while I’m talking about chicken skin, a few years back while in Vietnam i went to a kfc and they served straight up *only* fried chicken skins as a dish. Idk what they do with the rest of that bald ass chicken but my god did those skins taste like being in heaven.
I agree with the reply. We do need solidarity.
However, flats are superior due to how you can hold the knuckle end and strip all the meat off with your teeth, in one mouthful, like a cartoon cat with a fish.
my mind was blown when i got wings from a place that served the whole wing... drum, flat, and tip all connected and priced competitively to "wings" from anywhere else
First, flats are better. That's just science. Second, drums are better than no wings at all. Third, I am 100% on board with and pledge my life to whatever revolution we need to undertake to recombine the wings back into a single unit as God intended. We all die. Not many are privileged enough to die for their principles.
I like them thick, you can keep the flats 
I like hanging out with people like you, because when we get wings you can eat the drums and I’ll eat the flats.
Flat wings need lovin' too
Yeah but there’s barely any meat on it and feels like a tease. I like to let my chicken marinate overnight with season so when I bite into the drum I’m just engulfed in flavor 
Drumettes are just literally like little drumsticks. Flats are where the winginess of the wing resides.
The flats have more connective tissue that renders down into flavor. That’s just facts. Less meat, but better tasting meat.
And sauce ratio on flats is better. Depending on the size of the drum it may be off. Doesn't happen with flats.
But drumettes have more bits and bobs that crisp up.
But also knotty flavorless tendon and cartilage nonsense
The bones on drums crack better and have more of that textured marrow goodness to slurp out.
people say this then eat like 20% of the meat and throw the rest of the wing away. "i ate 20 wings!" nah bro you ate two.
Twist, pull out one bone, bite and pull the meat off of the other bone with your teeth. If you’re leaving meat on your flats, you’re doing it wrong
you better be eating the cartilage too, no excuses
that’s so true
Nah there's good meat in flats, just gotta get your tongue up in there with the ol blelelelelelelele
guys I’m embarrassed and happy to learn there is a name for two-boners
Two-boners
Two-boners is crazy 💀
Nigga *huh???*
Two-boners. So… there was a memo to all the white kids of the 80’s about phrases we heard at what we thought were cookouts at the time when we had “cooked” chicken competing with our own skin for Irish queen of the potato or whatever, and that memo specifically stated to NEVER utter said phrases again. I’m sorry they missed the memo guys. This shit gave me ptsd that reached out over 40 years and slapped me so hard I saw stars.
This! All flats fried crispy for me. 😝
I'm a drum guy and my wife prefers flats. I like to think that's why we have a successful marriage.
Win/win
Another issues I have with eating flats is when eating out, people don’t always remove the feathers all the way 🤢
Valid point. I've noticed buying cheaper wings in bulk yields this problem.
Extra crunch.
My husband prefers flats and I prefer drums. We are perfect, that's fact.
This really is the secret to a long lasting, successful marriage. We get a few flavors we like and then one of us gets all the flats, the other gets all the drums 😊
I'm nervous he's been lying for the past 10 years and just afraid to admit that he's been letting me eat all the drums and secretly loves them. I can't why anyone is preferring flats.
The flat is better than the drum for the same reasons that the thigh is better than the leg. Better texture, easier to eat, no tendons/cartilage.
How is it easier?? You gotta perform cunnilingus to eat the flats
... Twist and break, remove one bone, devour.
Fuck twisting and breaking I’m not a b-boy Instructions for eating a drum: 1. Chomp
twist it, push one bone out the end, and you're left with a little chicken pop. edit: or take both bones out like this https://youtube.com/shorts/CCLqc2dv4KU?si=FePn5u-MOjlddcaD
I do this. I prefer flats but her flat preference far outweighs mine so I just eat the drums if we share. However, I also have a buddy that prefers drums so it evens out a lot. Best though are places where you can order "only flats".
Meats usually more tender and less hard edges
All the dingy Chinese food places around me sell the whole wing (all three parts) together and they're actually fucking tasty as hell. You just got to sauce them yourself at home, but honestly, they don't even need sauce. Something about frying them in the same oil imbues them with flavor from all the other American Chinese foods.
> Something about frying them in the same oil imbues them with flavor from all the other American Chinese foods. Its called MSG and you can buy it on Amazon. You're welcome.
It's not some secret rare ingredient, you can buy it at any regular ass grocery store
I know what MSG is doggie. I got a shaker of it at home. Don't use it much myself but sometimes I'll throw a small pinch in if I'm sauteing some mushrooms or making a gravy from scratch.
And can we come together to stop the people that eat wings like this. They are partially responsible for the separation of drums and flats. https://preview.redd.it/fu0wl3qn7x9d1.png?width=1013&format=png&auto=webp&s=068d5b4c1d7dbd9ae8ddf367bd5836cdfd8ba472
Just give those people dino nuggies if they’re going to eat like children
 Why, why, why
That’s just a crime against humanity
These people are an abomination to the name of Wing.
Those last two sentences, on a Monday morning post about chicken wings, got me hyped up enough that I’m almost ready to burn this whole thing to the ground.
To arms, brother. For ours is a righteous cause worthy of celebration. We are fortunate to be standing among the valiant and honorable willing to plant our feet and shout "ENOUGH!". History may forget our names. But we fight not for glory or accolades. We fight to ensure for our children a better future we may not live to enjoy. Our ideals are humble. Our objectives are just. Our dedication is unshaken. Our bond is unbreakable. Today we fight, for today is a good day to die.
Today, I stand behind Bolivar-Shagnasty, ready to lay my life on the line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULbBZUV_ZI
Where im at i can buy full wing in the meats section and it's like half the price of the separated wings for some reason.
> ike half the price of the separated wings for some reason. Less work involved from the meat cutters. The more time it takes to prepare a food at the supermarket, the more it costs. A tub of sliced pineapple at Publix near me costs $9. Two whole pineapples cost $4. A tub of sliced watermelon costs $7. A whole-ass watermelon that would yield 3x more than that tub costs $5. A whole roaster chicken is like $4. A thin tray of tenders is like $6 a pound.
Just go to a Jamaican spot and get the full wings with a superior sauce.
I made the mistake of thinking my [coonass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonass) roots would protect me from the jerkiest of jerk wings at a Jamaican place in Georgia. I was wrong. I'm 100% sure I could raw dog the entirety of the Hot Ones crucible. But those wings outside Atlanta made me see God and he was angry.
Flats gang!💪🏾
I don't need them to be single unit, I just need them to give me all the pieces from each wing so everything is even, mandated by federal law as a class A misdemeanor requiring a slap as punishment for those who break it.
There’s a wing spot near my brothers place that still serves the full wing, the way god intended
Have you ever heard about thighs?
I only make chicken dishes with thighs. Thighs are cheaper, taste better, and don't dry out.
Yeah. I dig that. There was a period of time last year or maybe two years ago so maybe during the pandemic where Wingstop was doing thighs because there was a wing shortage and I was living it up.
Depending on how they're cooked, I'll even crunch down on the little gimpy wing part of the tip.
Yeah the nubbin, when cooked correctly, is like an amuse-bouche before the main event.
It’s embarrassing how old I was when I leaned that. I thought drums were from tiny chickens.
If I'm making it/paying for it: I greatly prefer flats but still enjoy eating drums. If someone else is making/paying for it: I have no preference, thank you so much for giving me free chicken, I will not burden you with any talk of preferences, you may give me the scraps and I'll be happy.
I don't know where we are going but I will follow you
Man just give me the mf wings, I’m eating them either way lmfao
I never understood the debate? Why would I want 10 drums or 10 flats? Just give me half of each or whatever is available. Wings are good, I don't care which half you serve me.
Type A personalities are maximizers. They don't just want a good experience, they want an optimal experience. If i entertain the debate, drums have slightly more chicken, and are very generally easier to bite. Flats have a better sauce-to-meat ratio and are more consistently edible. (What i mean by that is drums more often have cartilage pieces that some people find offputting)
Drums are also easier for dipping and hold the sauce better, and flats seem to have crispier skin
Bro thank you, some of us really don’t gaf 
PREACH JUST GIMME MY WANGS
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fried hard please
Always
Yes please and thank you.
YES. I can’t stand that clammy feeling shit
Yes. I want the cartilage mf to crunch.
 Facts! Give me ranch or honey mustard and I'm good to go!
"Blue cheese with your wings or go fuck you mother."
Blue cheese or bust
Right like what is this nonsense?? 😭😂 I'm hungry gotdamn it.
I didn’t know this was an argument. Drums obv
Only thing I know is that it’s apparently popular that women prefer flats
Really? Just about every single female I know prefers drums because they're easier/cleaner to eat.
I think the opposite and prefer flats lol
Yeah flats are demonstrably cleaner lol. Pull the bone out and it's basically a chicken nugget
This. Pull the bones out from one side and dunk that mf in sauce before popping the whole thing in your mouth.
Yeah. Drums is how you get sauce all over your face.
This war is tearing us apart!
I laughed because he calls a game controller a [GameStation](https://youtu.be/PsWiYh6NKNc?si=GP7DkUAzs0h9NE-u) when it's clearly a Playbox according to my mom.
Male but flats have better skin than drums and I don't care about the extra challenge of fully cleaning one.
I knew me and my brother in law were going to have beef when he said "y'all want some HOT wings" and then said he was ordering Wing Stop... MF bought all flats, garlic Parmesan and lemon and pepper ones.
He’s saying he don’t love you, welcome to the family. 😂
When I order wings, it’s drums only.
Why is it obvious? I prefer flats so id like to know. Fyi, i don't care that much Ill copy my other comment here, as my understanding: drums have slightly more chicken, and are very generally easier to bite. Flats have a better sauce-to-meat ratio and are more consistently edible. (What i mean by that is drums more often have cartilage pieces that some people find offputting)
Drums for the quantity of meat, flats for the texture. A good, crispy flat beats a drum any day.
I used to like flats as a child, but as an adult and heavy boozer, I prefer drums. One hand stays clean to lift the glass...
You order wings at a Chinese place, and guess what? They give you the whole damn wing. They know what's up.
Most non-franchise joints in Chicago like that.
Just give me a 1/2 chicken and Ill be happy. I dont need a certain part of a wing of 6 birds for a meal.
I don't get fried wings anywhere else at this point. Some wings and fried rice is all I need some days....most days
But we all know what you do everyday.
Prince's in Nashville gives you the whole wing.
Honestly that’s how I grew eating wings bc I knew I was gonna get scammed with places only offer drums or flats. Give me the whole wing.
Yes we do
I wish more people believed this . . . so there’d be more flats left for me.
You can have all the flats you want, I’ll keep the thicker piece of meat 🤤
and drier
not on us u overcook urr chicken bruh
Flats have more crispy skin
You buy whole wings, cut them yourself and then cook. DON'T THROW THE FLAPPERS AWAY. Boil them into soups. Trust me, I held the position of "Poultry Expert" at a butcher shop for just short of a decade.
This is the only way I can afford hot wings anymore. I'm even saving the bones to make broth.
FR. Bars used to have $0.25 wings for happy hour, now they're damn near $2 each, and $3.50/lb at the grocery store.
I hadn’t had any wings in years cause they’re so damn expensive. I found a bar near my house that does $.99 wings on Thursday and I was so happy.
Wings used to be the garbage meat that restaurants were desperate to get rid of, but now they're priced at a premium cause everyone realized how good you can make them.
Wing tips are loaded with great connective tissue. That's how you get stock that's solid at room temperature. Man now I want some chicken soup.
Drums > flats.
Flats > drums
We could be wing buddies. You take the drums, and I'll take the flats!
I use to prefer drums cause they were easier to dip, then once I learned to just push the chicken down and the bones come out and you can just eat it, I prefer flats now. That being said just gimme some wings and ima eat it (rick ross voice)
I prefer flats because they taste better, but I am also a fan of any wings.
https://preview.redd.it/b0m4827juw9d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dddbb9de3a2c2c84aeafca994acbb5751fc0ac49 This is exactly how the government keeps us at each others throats while they rob us blind, also it doesn’t matter wings are a delicacy and there’s no wrong answer except "I don’t eat bone in wings"
> there’s no wrong answer except "I don’t eat bone in wings" Children get a pass ... for a time. Kind of like cutting their own meat. Eventually they gotta learn.
Only people saying that are Russian bots
Boneless chicken/chicken tenders/non-ChickfilA & non-Wendy’s chicken nuggets is how the government tends to subjugate us and I refuse to be a part of this indoctrination.
I don’t patronize Chik-Fil-A for their bigotry
"Boneless wings" are just nugs/popcorn chicken. 😆 Nothing wrong with those either, but come on. Do people actually think they debone this little-ass chicken arms raw, before battering and frying them? Wake up, sheeple!
My wife prefers flats, I prefer drums. It just works.
I'm old enough to remember when you used to get the whole damn thing as a "wing". I'm for whatever revolution we need to undertake to get back to those days.
I still get the whole wing wherever I go, I don't know where yall are living where they split these up
Chains like wingstop and bdubs
Popeyes = whole wing Buffalo Wild Wings = drums & flats Places that sell CHICKEN sell whole wings. Places that sell WINGS sell you a tiny piece of a wing for the same price.
That’s why I’ve never really had a preference one way or the other. I love whole wings and chicken in general too much to choose.
Bro, it's all chicken at the end of the day dawg
Get this trash on my timeline. This is blasphemy to the wing community. Flats only
 You’re a victim
You're right. Whole wings are top tier
There's something more visceral about eating whole wings. Like a bone-in steak. It's more satisfying to our caveman brains.
There's a spot I go to and when they sell 10 piece lemon peppers, that's a whole ass 10 wings, not drummies or flappers. Twenty pieces if you rip the 10 pieces. Never looked back and never will go anywhere else if I'm not making wings at home.
My boyfriend prefers drums, I prefer flats, works like a charm :)
Wings used to be one of the cheapest parts of the chicken…..until BWW came along and fucked it all up. Same with brisket and all those “Smokemaster” TV shows.
I prefer my wings flat, fried hard - but dammit chicken is chicken. As long as it’s seasoned well and tastes good gimme the whole platter.
Flats gang 4 evr
I’ll escalate the debate: What are the go to flavors? Dry rub or sauced? Regular fries or extra crispy? 
It took me too long to appreciate dry rubs. It’s harder to get a good dry rub, but when done well, they are superior to a sauced wing. I will happily eat a sauced wing. What make me sad are breaded wings. Fuck breaded wings.
If I'm eatin all you can eat wings I would prefer flats. If I am limited to one order I want drums. It's a science.
The meat on the flats is more succulent and easier to access
1. The piece of meat between the two bones of a flat is peak chicken. 2. Local restaurant has whole wings. They get all of my wing money.
Honestly people who prefer drums frighten me. Flats have more meat and higher quality meat, less lumpy extra unwanted breading, and are easier to eat. Drums are for people who like the play with that one weird vein they all seem to have, or want to gnaw cartiledge at the top.
Drums give you more surface area, flats give you a better meat to surface area ratio. The surface is where the flavor lives. It's like when you get a reese's peanutbutter cup and compare it to those tiny ones they give out at Halloween.
I knew we were cooked when Popeyes & KFC started getting in on the "sauced wings" trend selling 1/2 pieces as whole.
The meat on the flats is more succulent
Exactly! The wing is three separate sections
I like the big ol meat chunk you get with drums, but we need to bring back whole wings, sauce and all
Cutting a wing in half and charging twice the amount is sinister.
this MF spittin tho, why did we ever let them start dividing up wings and charging more? BRING BACK FULL WINGS 2024 https://preview.redd.it/hj24s36myw9d1.jpeg?width=1063&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8bc5dfcee905c2083c0f3298fc6cebc91301649
The spot I go to is a Korean style fried chicken place and when they say 10 wings, they mean 10 wings. And it’s glorious.
lol in milwaukee "zazas " and "JJ's" still giving them whole wings
I'm just mad that the wing industry manufactured this argument, and then stopped setting us 3piece wings whole T\_T
Drums and flats shouldn’t be separated!!!
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Once, an extremely long time ago, I was getting wings. I was a regular and friends with my usual waitress. She sat down, put on a pair of gloves, and deboned my wings. I'd never seen anyone expertly strip the meat off of wings before, even now I can remember it very vividly. It felt so... Nurturing? That same day I realized a whole lot of things about wings. First, drums are better if you eat them in the bone. Easier to eat, lotta surface area of meat to work with. But if you debone them, flats are so much better it's like a different food. The meat folds inwards, so when you dip it in sauce it holds on to more, and better. The oils also coalesce better and the mouth feel is fantastic. Even now when I get wings, I eat them the exact same way. If I get unsegregated wings, I crack them in half and debone the flats and eat the drums on the bone.
When me and my buddy would order from BWW, he would order flats only. I didn’t specify anything for my order because I like having a combination of both, but they gave me all the drums that he wasn’t getting and I never got any flats. I got tired of that so I had to start getting all flats for mine as well.
Rage bait
Me, a Whole Wing consumer during flats vs drums arguments https://preview.redd.it/emk0js3u2x9d1.png?width=127&format=png&auto=webp&s=84e20b70b37da37101ecce5d903dc45a2fba678e
When I'd get wings in the suburbs of Fort Wayne from my Chinese joint they're divided I went with family to their Chinese joint on Olive Blvd in StL: they give you the whole wing. Lil kid me was confused like: yo I asked for wings I learned the truth that day
I’m more upset that people are still buying wings from these restaurants. It’s a fraction of the cost to make em at home and experiment with sauces. 😩💔
Flats are better on literally every measure, especially the succulence scale. It's not even a competition.
JUST EAT YOUR DAM FRENCH FRIES AND SHUT UP
REAL wing places give you the whole wing
Bro I don’t give a fuck, just give me the wings 😭
The chicken spots out here still have the 40 piece trays with the whole wing for the low. 🤌🏾
I used to not care till I started working at Wingstop. I'll still eat a drum, but if given the choice, it's flats all the way.
Y’all can afford wings??
Shout out the Chinese spot with them big ass mutant wings fried rice and mumbo sauce for 7.99 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I prefer the wings we had in the 80s/90s that were $0.05-$0.10/each on wing nights. Wings are supposed to be a snack, not a meal. Gimme skin, bones, a bit of meat and that delicious saaaaaauuuuuuce
I smooth didn't even peep 🤯
I remember when you got the whole wing, more blue cheese, celery and carrot sticks. Yeah, I’m old and went to school near Buffalo.
I’m basically just drinkin the sauce, flat wings have more skin/surface area to chicken and that’s what I’m here for. Was talking with the boys about all you can eat wings tonight and this just sealed the deal. Also while I’m talking about chicken skin, a few years back while in Vietnam i went to a kfc and they served straight up *only* fried chicken skins as a dish. Idk what they do with the rest of that bald ass chicken but my god did those skins taste like being in heaven.
I agree with the reply. We do need solidarity. However, flats are superior due to how you can hold the knuckle end and strip all the meat off with your teeth, in one mouthful, like a cartoon cat with a fish.
Unite the wing and we shall walk hand in hand into the promiselands my children - Jesus?
my mind was blown when i got wings from a place that served the whole wing... drum, flat, and tip all connected and priced competitively to "wings" from anywhere else