Buffalo Wild Wings has hilariously confessed what we already knew - that their boneless wings are not in fact technically wings.
The wild confession came in response to a judge throwing out a $9m lawsuit from an Illinois man who claimed that boneless wings are in fact overpriced chicken nuggets - which of course have no bones.
Aimen Halim of Chicago on Friday filed a lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings claiming the national chain restaurant is doing more than just taking a few naming liberties with its menu. It’s deliberately defrauding customers.
When Halim ordered boneless wings from an Illinois Buffalo Wild Wings outlet in January, he thought he was actually getting wing meat without bones, the lawsuit claims.
“Unbeknownst to plaintiff and other customers, the products are not wings at all,” the lawsuit says, “but instead, slices of chicken breast meat deep-fried like wings.”
Just frying and saucing a piece of chicken in the style of a wing doesn’t make it one, Halim claims.
“Indeed, the product are more akin, in comparison, to a chicken nugget rather than a chicken wing,” according to the lawsuit. Chicago man, Aimen Halim's lawsuit - filed against Buffalo Wild Wings and owner Inspire Brands - claimed their famed boneless wings are just 'slices of chicken breast meat deep-fried like wings'.
He sought $9,999,000 in damages and said customers should either pay less for the boneless wings or not purchase them at all if they knew what the product was actually made of.
'This clear-cut case of false advertising should not be permitted, as consumers should be able to rely on the plain meaning of a product’s name and receive what they are promised.'
Mr Halim was under the impression the boneless wings were just de-boned and in his claim said Buffalo Wild Wings should not be allowed to falsely advertise its products.
And he said if the company was being transparent with its customers it 'could readily change the name' to boneless chicken and pointed to the case of its competitors who have named similar products 'chicken poppers'.
'Chicken wings are a more premium and desirable product than a product made of chicken breast meat,' the lawsuit stated.
'Therefore, plaintiff and consumers have suffered injury in fact, as a result of defendants' deceptive practices.'
Some may say Halim may be taking his complaint about fake boneless wings to an absurd extreme, but there’s nothing absurd about calling out “boneless wings” as being anything but a traditional wing, said Trent Weitzel of Laramie, owner of the popular Weitzel’s Wings food trucks.
And he’d know. Weitzel isn’t just the king of Wyoming wings, he and his Double Dubs crew are the reigning Festival Favorite winners at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York.
As a wing purist, Weitzel said it’s wrong to call another cut of chicken a “boneless wing” and that you won’t find anything but traditional bone-in wings at Double Dubs.
“I think boneless wings are ridiculous,” he said, adding that when people ask for boneless wings he responds with, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
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