5 Wings for $1

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Kunmui

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This is the new promotion at Church's chicken here in Austin, TX. You
get your choice of 3 different sauces tossed with 5 fried chicken-wing
sections for $1.

5 chicken wings at $.20/each is unheard of. The promotion runs "All
Day Every Day". Not just on $1 2-Piece leg and thigh Tuesday.

I stopped and got 15 for $3.24 tonight and I'm drenched in sauce and
cholesterol.

-sw
 
"Spiro Weville" wrote in message
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So it is really 2 1/2 wings for a $1. Still a good price. Many places are
a buck or more a wing these days. I'm still pissed at the SOB in Buffalo
that spoiled cheap wings for the rest of us. I remember paying 5? a pound
years ago.
 
On Feb 23, 7:45?pm, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:


My Buffalo wings recipe card is 30 years old, and the Buffalo bar was
already famous for them. Let it go, Ed -- let it go.
 
On 23/02/2011 11:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:

I helped a friend build and open a bar in 1976 and wings were one of his
featured foods. They were new at the time. We went over to bars in
Buffalo to try their wings and to try to pick up some tips. They were
an instant hit. They were quite profitable because wings were dirt cheap.
 
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:45:58 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:


That's one of my pet peeves. Notice I said "sections" because I'm a
stickler for what constitutes a "wing".


My price point for wings is under $.50/each. And there isn't any
restaurant that offers them for under that until now.

It's kinda scary.

sw
 
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:45:58 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:


It says 5 wings for $1.00, he bought 15 for $3.00 + Tax $0.24= Total $3.24
How did you come up with 2 1/2 for $1.00, that would make them 5 for $2.00?
 
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:36:09 -0600, Franken Chicken
wrote:


Damn I read it wrong, sections? Seems you're getting gouged, we pay $0.25 a
wing here, at $0.20 I'd sit there and eat them all night. Sorry ED, I posted
without really understanding the post fully, you were correct in your analogy.
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:03:23 -0600, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


The sqwertz dwarf boasts about stuffing his maw with those kind of
fast food chicken wings all drenched in chemical spill sauce... but
makes fun of SPAM that in over 60 years of eating has never made me
ill. I don't like chicken wings no mater how they're prepared, not
even from a chicken I roast myself... I peel off all that disgusting
slimy fat for the crows and feed the tiny bits of wing meat to my
cats. People complain about the price of chicken wings... well if they
gave them to me for free I'd toss them into my yard for the critters.
 
On 2/23/2011 10:26 PM, Spiro Weville wrote:


I fondly remember going out once a month with my wings group for $.15
wings. Lots of places had a certain night of the week where the wings
were $.15. Of course that was a while back. Now they're approaching
$1 per wing. Yikes. Don't go out for wings anymore and since they've
become so popular don't even buy them and make them myself. They used
to pretty much give wings away in the old days. And short ribs used
to be practically free until they got popular. (I blame it on Korean
restaurants! ;-)) The wing is my favorite part of the chicken. Damn
those buffalo wings for driving up the price!!!!! And we don't have
a Church's in Pgh. so I'm screwed. (And not in the good way.) Sigh.

Kate

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On 24/02/2011 12:43 PM, Kate Connally wrote:


Until the end of October we used to go out for wings and beer after our
volunteer gig. The place we went to had a Wednesday special, half price
wings. Their wings, usually $9.99 were only $4.99.... 10 wings.



I was told my my dietitian not to eat wings. It was not just to avoid
them. It was to eat them NEVER.
 
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Kate Connally wrote:


A grocer here has a sale this week on wings, advertising that you can save
$1.00 lb off the regular price. The sale price? $1.29 lb.

I can get that price every day if I buy them in bulk, wholesale, 40lb cases
of "party wings". But $1.29 is about as cheap as you'll ever see them here
at retail. Usually they are higher even on sale, and often those are frozen,
"solution added" wings. Usually you see something like 15% solution added,
so the real price of the actual wings can be found by dividing by the
inverse of the solution percentage, .85. So if you buy frozen "solution
added" wings at say $1.50, the actual meat really costs about $1.76, if my
math is correct.

Commonly they are well over 2 bucks fresh in "family packs" around here, so
the buck twenty nine for fresh non-solution added wings is a very good
price indeed.

What sucks is that I can buy random weight wings, thighs, or quarters in a
range from $.49 to $.79 lb in bulk. Who would have ever thought wings would
sell for double or triple the price of good meaty chicken pieces?

MartyB
 
On Feb 23, 9:26?pm, Spiro Weville wrote:

Church's is so trashy that they still use partially hydrogenated oils
to fry their chicken, but boy that IS cheap.

--Bryan
 
On Feb 25, 10:18?am, "Nunya Bidnits" wrote:

I buy whole chickens when they go on sale (less than a buck a pound,
anyways), cut them up, and put the wing sections in a freezer bag.
When I have enough wings, I get out the deep fryer.
 
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:04:42 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888 wrote:


Whole chickens are always less than $1/lb here. ($.89 roasters and
$.67 fryers today at Fiesta). Legs are $.49/lb. Wings $2.29/lb.
Dumbasses pay those $.80-$1.00 wing prices at places like Pluckers,
and they're puny little wings, too - Cornish game hen wings.

-sw
 
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