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If You’re A 1 Or A 2 On This Chicken Eating Scale, Why Even Bother Ordering Wings?

Are you ready for a story that makes very little sense, and yet here are we are talking about it? Apparently, chicken is getting a lot of attention. Yes, the food. That’s because the chicken has topped the list of foods Americans consume, according to recent research by The National Chicken Council (biased, maybe, but think about — people LOVE chicken). In fact, one human being, on average, eats 92 pounds of it. NINETY-TWO pounds of chicken.

Because people love chicken so much, the chicken wing is getting lots of Internet attention.

For this reason, people are sharing some very…specific posts about how they eat their chicken. Like, you know, they’re arranging chicken wings on a plate, from least devoured to most devoured, and then they’re rating one another based off of a controversial new scale.

Basically, if you’re a five, you’re eating a chicken wing down to its bone. If you’re eating a tiny bit of meat and moving onto the next wing, you’re a one — and that is apparently VERY disrespectful, according to the Internet.

chicken wing scale, chicken wing bone diagram
via Twitter

It’s hard to explain, but this ought to do the trick:

#1 people were widely condemned, with folks calling them “disrespectful,” “serial killers,” and “enemies of the state.”

Some even proudly declared that they were off-the-chart 6’s (immigrants will understand).

The chicken jokes go pretty deep because people really want to determine what each number on the scale means for themselves (and clearly have too much free time on their hands).

Of course, this is chicken’s time to shine so even chicken blogs and wing companies are chiming in:

Some people find the whole chicken scale meme a bit…exasperating. Mostly because they’re cowards who eat their chicken wings boneless (I SAID IT!)

What kind of chicken wing eater are you?

Leigh MB