When it comes to chicken wings, the flat part is best

Dear ones, can you suspect that summer is almost over and fall is here?

The pre-season has begun, the baseball season is in full swing, and the WNBA is back, and which means individuals are gathering in bars, pubs, parking lots, private residences, and all over the place else to watch their favorite teams play, drink alcoholic beverages, and eat foods that symbolize sports and joy.

These are chicken wings. I’m talking about chicken wings.

Personally, as a black woman, I’ll take any excuse to eat chicken wings. It could possibly be a day ending with the letter “y” and I’ll say, “Let’s celebrate! Chicken wings!”

Whenever I order wings—whether it’s Popeyes (their wings are delicious!), Wingstop, Cuban Spot (when you live in LA, Versailles has amazing wings!), or another random place—I all the time ask if I can just order the flatbreads.

Don’t get me flawed; I’ll eat any piece of chicken wing I’m served, including the thighs, but when we’re paying less, a flat wing could be higher.

Firstly, it is easier to do away with all the burden and still maintain your dignity in public.

Don’t act like I’m the only one who eats chicken wings otherwise in public and completely otherwise when with close friends or family.

Lifestyle

I publicly crack the flat piece open with my fingers and tear the flesh off it so I can gracefully pop it into my mouth.

In solitude, I put the thing in my mouth and suck the meat out of it all of sudden. You can do it when you know the way to use your tongue. It’s the best way to eat a flatbread, but unless you wish everyone looking at you and wondering where your table manners are, you almost certainly won’t do it in company.

Compare that to drummette. Drumette is still a very good piece of wing. I especially like the little cartilage that is attached to the top of the bone after the big meaty part has been eaten.

If you already know, then you already know.

The point is, when you eat chicken thighs in public, you have got to leave that little piece of cartilage there, and now you have got a pile of bones in your plate that other black people will have a look at and say you are wasting good chicken, when in point of fact there is no dignified way to bite off that piece of cartilage in public because, let me repeat, not in mixed company.

There’s a number of flavor and spice in the flat dish, especially in that little final part that —

You know what? I’ll eat that little tip of my apartment irrespective of who’s looking, because I like pretty things.

But back to the point, the thigh is a more tender piece of meat than the drumstick.

Again, I’ll eat drumsticks. I cannot emphasize this enough. There is no part of a chicken I won’t eat, aside from heads and legs.

The deal is that the apartments are the star of the show. The Drummettes are the understudies.

Sure, they do a fairly good job when needed, but once you’re going to the movies, you wish to watch the one which comes first.

Either way, you possibly can be happy to discuss things amongst yourselves.

I said what I said.

The flats are the best part of the chicken wing. Period.

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