Court rules boneless wings can have bones after customer tears his esophagus Unsplash.com: Stu MoffatAfter a diner\u2019s so-called \u2018boneless\u2019 wings tore his esophagus at a restaurant, Ohio\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that foodies can\u2019t expect their boneless wings to be completely bone-free. Michael Berkheimer was chowing down on some boneless chicken wings with parmesan garlic sauce at Wings on Brookwood when something got stuck in his throat. After three days of feeling ill and constantly losing his lunch, Berkheimer went to the doctor \u2014 only to be told that a small bone from his chicken had torn his esophagus, causing an infection. Berkheimer took legal action against the restaurant, saying they\u2019d failed to adequately alert him that their \u2018boneless wings\u2019 weren\u2019t actually \u2018boneless.\u2019 It\u2019s not just Wings on Brookwood he\u2019s going after, either, as both the farm that produced the chicken wings and the supplier company were both named in his lawsuit. However, Ohio\u2019s Supreme Court isn\u2019t on his side. In a close 4-3 ruling, they determined that \u2018boneless\u2019 is a style of cooking, saying diners should be aware that chickens have bones, which can sometimes make their way into the meat. \u201cA diner reading \u2018boneless wings\u2019 on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating \u2018chicken fingers\u2019 would know that he had not been served fingers,\u201d wrote Justice Joseph T. Deters. Deters\u2019 statement wasn\u2019t wholly agreed upon by his fellow Justices, who called his reasoning \u201cutter jabberwocky.\u201d \u201cThe question must be asked: Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken? Of course they don\u2019t,\u201d argued Justice Michael P. Donnelly. \u201cWhen they read the word \u2018boneless,\u2019 they think that it means \u2018without bones,\u2019 as do all sensible people.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time a judge has made an eyebrow-raising ruling regarding food lately. In May 2024, an Indiana judge ruled that tacos and burritos both technically count as sandwiches, sending the internet for a loop as debates raged online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Court rules boneless wings can have bones after customer tears his esophagus Unsplash.com: Stu MoffatAfter a diner\u2019s so-called \u2018boneless\u2019 wings tore his esophagus at a restaurant, Ohio\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that foodies can\u2019t expect their boneless wings to be completely bone-free. Michael Berkheimer was chowing down on some boneless chicken wings with parmesan garlic sauce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}