wing meat

Instead, you get a harmonious porky bite with gamy undertones from the confit rabbit, beef tongue, duck wing meat and offal.

Today, wing meat costs 58 cents more per pound than breast meat and $1.26 more than leg meat, according Agriculture Department data.

Chicken wings are about half bone and fat and half meat, so once you strip out all the inedible stuff, you’re actually paying four times as much for wing meat as you are for breast meat, said Erik Oosterwijk, president of Fells Point Wholesale Meats in Baltimore.

Using a knife, shaped like a small ice-cream scooper, to pull the wing meat away from the bone and then dropping it onto a conveyor belt.

“The Colbert Show” called the spelling out as a “government-mandated” way to get around the fact that they’re not made of wing meat.