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I'm from Buffalo originally and I learned early on (from my Pops) that the only real way to eat a wing is to put the entire thing in your mouth and work it around for a while until you pull out a clean bone.

De-boning a chicken wing? Get real.

there's a wrong way to eat a chicken wing?

I have my own technique. I push the middle section of meat up and bite it out, then rip the wing at one end to unfold it with the "hinge" at one end. Then eat the meat off of each bone. No cartilage consumption (blech) and I get all the meat off the bone.

I've eaten wings like this for years. I usually just pinch the cartilage to separate it from the bones and use it as a handle to dip in blue cheese or hotsauce, then just bite the meat off and toss the cartilage bits. Quicker than eating other ways and much easier to dip. Sometimes the big bone doesn't always come out, so its almost like a drumette at that point.

I've do that for the little bone (yank it out). Not sure why you need to take the big bone out (Since he doesn't go to the trouble of de-boning the drummette portion of the wing).

Cool video, but I'm not eating the cartilage.

This is exactly the way I've always eaten wings. De-boning a chicken wing is no less ridiculous than cutting your steak into bite-sized pieces to make it easier to eat. It peeves me to no end when out eating wings, to see my friends be so wasteful with their finicky ways of eating things, and I am not shy about calling them out on it. If the wings are cooked perfectly, the bones come apart and out very easily. And if you're concerned with clean hands, should you really be eating wings in the first place?