Anatomy of the Chicken (wing)

Ok..I have always wanted to talk about this. There seems to be a lot of confused people out there about what chicken drumsticks and what chicken wings are. As a chicken lover, I feel it is my responsibity on behalf of all the chickens to get this clarified.

(The following bit's probably not gonna be of use to those of you, who already know the difference between drumsticks and wings.. so piss off until the next blog..I'm joking you can stay.)

So you know when you go to Nando's, TGIF or KFC and you order some chicken wings and you find that there are also chicken drumsticks but you eat them anyways? Well, they actually are wings..upper wings, to be precise. You see, I think a lot of people think upper wings are drumsticks because they are shaped like drumsticks but smaller (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Upper Wings (drumettes)

Now, chicken drumsticks are actually what look like chicken drumettes but bigger (Fig. 2). They seem to be a lil less popular than chicken upper wings (may be because upper wings are generally more tender and come in a convenient bite size).

Fig. 2: Chicken Legs (drumsticks)

Kapich? No? May be this diagram from Wikipedia will help

So next time before you go 'Hey, I asked for wings but they gave me drumsticks..', spare a minute or two to figure out your chicken.

Pfft..and you think you know your chicken..



Next week: chicken crop... (check out the egg by the ass)