Chicken wing prices have apparently soared and I didn’t know
it. My local delivery pizza/wing place changed menu and prices New Year’s and I
wasn’t privy when I ordered 50 wings (REAL wings, more later). I asked the
total and my jaw dropped. The call ended and I gathered my wits and looked at
the menu prices and thought, “how could the price go from $70 to $90 even with
inflation? And no, rightwingnuts, its not taxes or burdensome, job-killing
regulations. I called the restaurant back to ask about the price and she said
chicken wings were through the roof expensive. They LOST money on chicken
wings.
So, like any curious person, I googled the issue. Lo and
behold, wings had been ugraded in value by the free, and let me add STUPID,
market! Everybody needs to have wings now. So much so that this previous waste
product best added to chicken soup or cat food mixes, now out-values chicken
breast. SO MUCH so that chicken breast cut into chicken wing sized chunks is
now billed (pardon the pun) as “boneless chicken wings”.
I had always wondered in my 2yrs earlier mind (not to be
confused with a 2 yr old mind) WHY “boneless chicken wings” could possibly be
less expensive than traditional chicken wings. “Traditional” meaning the thing
you expect by the word you are using. (wink wink to Chik-fil-A and marriage,
chicken and politics entwined)
ALL of the chain restaurants must now have chicken wings on
their menu. This low-grade, trailer-trash gourmand making of a toss-away piece
of an individual’s bodily flesh (let’s not forget what we are eating) started
to turn top dollar... maybe akin to shark fins, for what those ordering it
perceived they were getting. But then, the “american stupidity” of getting
slabs of “boneless” chicken breast as “wings” turned freaking CHICKEN BREAST
(excuse my shouting but) CHICKEN BREAST into a lower commodity value than
freaking ACTUAL CHICKEN WINGS (again, please do pardon my shouting. I get very
excited these days).
Am I out of my goddamned mind here or is there SOMETHING seriously,
and I mean SERIOUSLY, WRONG with the “free market” economy when chicken wings
are valued so much higher than the rest of the chicken... to the point that
ignorant, dumbass consumers can actually make “boneless chicken wings” an
option as a cheaper value beacuse they ARE NOT FREAKING WINGS?
I must be going out of my New York state of mind because I
am crazy with this thought. SOMETHING is SERIOUSLY freaking WRONG. Complexity
Theory tells us MANY things are WRONG with a species trying to improve itself.
I continue to observe and participate, agape.
