- cross-posted to:
- offbeat@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- offbeat@lemmy.ca
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.
Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — when he felt a bite-size piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later, feverish and unable to keep food down, Berkeimer went to the emergency room, where a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and caused an infection.
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In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said Thursday that “boneless wings” refers to a cooking style, and that Berkheimer should’ve been on guard against bones since it’s common knowledge that chickens have bones. The high court sided with lower courts that had dismissed Berkheimer’s suit.
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If I order boneless wings, and I get bones, I’m getting my fucking money back and not eating at that establishment ever again.
Not full bones, though. Just shards of bone that can seriously injure you
Ahh yes, another court in the pocket of corporations.
Some fat ass doesn’t chew his food and suddenly corporations win? You can never have perfection with organic products. What exactly do you want done to guarantee meat from a boned animal isn’t left in the meat? And how much will it cost to do it, and are you willing to pay for it?
*I’m glad Ohio judges are more intelligent than most of you all.
What kind of hail corporate nonsense is this? Either call it “fewer bones” or have it be without bones. I don’t expect it to be a certain price but I expect boneless chicken to be just as boneless as it is chicken.
why do you even worry about it, this doesn’t interfere with your boot diet.
I hope you choke on chicken bone while reading The Jungle. I hope for your last moments to be ironic.
I doubt it. I chew my food.
Then break a tooth when you bite too hard on a “boneless chicken”
Or what, you gonna say you chew slowly too?
It’s actually kinda fucking insane of you to take the side of “business should be allowed to flat out lie to you, even after it almost kills someone”. Maybe talk with a psychiatrist about your lack of empathy. There’s probably a diagnosis for your level of sociopathy
Seems the judges on two different levels sided with me.
“appeal to republican judges” has to be the worst variant of appeal to authority.
Let’s be clear. Republican judges.
Legality isn’t morality, if your only defence to a moral charge is that it is legal then you are a wannabe slave owner born to the wrong time. Scum.
I’m just of the belief that it’s stupid to expect perfection from organic food sources.
So amazingly stupid. The conservative justic’s “logic” here is a case-study in failing upwards. He tries to say that “nobody would think that chicken fingers are actual fingers.” Like, chicken fingers is a colloquial name, and is not the same as a fuckin descriptor adjective. He might as well say that dairy-free ice cream can have dairy in it, because “no reasonable person would think ice cream wouldn’t have dairy in it.”
what a joke. This brought to you by the same supreme court that has ruled against the will of Ohio voters who voted for an anti-gerrymandering bill, just to have a republican led commission drag it’s feet, presenting identical maps, and instead of allowing the usage of an actual fair map, they just threw the baby out with bathwater, leaving in place the terrible gerrymandered maps that heavily favor republicans till 2030.
Just another reason I’ll never move back to my home state. conservatives ruined it.
On one hand, I accept that a boneless chicken wing has a tiny chance of containing some amount of bone, and can see where suing a restaurant over it, even if you injure yourself eating it, is a bit frivolous. Boneless chicken wings did come from a chicken with bones in it, and it’s weird to complain that the chicken wasn’t made into completely homogeneous pink slime before being turned into a nugget…
I don’t understand, however, how this made it to the state Supreme Court, resulting in this decision, which seemingly allows restaurants to outright lie about what they are serving.
Boneless chicken wings did come from a chicken with bones in it,
Sure but then someone prepared the chicken and decided that the outcome can be described as boneless. Personally, I would also expect the bones to have been removed.
You can debone chicken without turning it into pink slime.
I’d rather expect it to be made from another part of the chicken in the style of wings.It would be trivial and inexpensive to use an x-ray to check for bones and fragments.
I’m going to need a lot more details before this stops sounding like the craziest idea I’ve heard all month.
X-ray machines are extremely common in industrial inspection processes. https://www.cassel-inspection.com/x-ray-inspection-machine
X-ray would be ideal to spot bone because there’s huge contrast. That’s why you get an x-ray for bones, opposed to an MRI which would be used for soft tissues.
Sure, verifying chicken is deboned before it leaves the factory makes more sense than installing x-ray machines at every pizzeria.
I never proposed doing it at every pizzeria. Production facilities where they make boneless wings in bulk. A human might not even be involved.
But yeah, if the human leaves a bone in the chicken, they’re doing their job wrong…
