CMV: Boneless chicken wings should not have bones.

In case you are wondering why this is not entirely obvious, here is a news story:

Diners who order boneless chicken wings cannot expect the meat to be actually free of bones, an Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

This rather bizarre ruling has stemmed from a much more serious case in which a restaurant patron suffered serious medical complications after getting a bone stuck in his throat after tucking into some boneless wings eight years ago.

The claim from Michael Berkheimer, the restaurant patron, was rejected by the divided court, which voted 4-3 in the ruling.

Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, in 2016, ordering a plate of boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce when a piece of the chicken went down the wrong way, the lawsuit reportedly stated.

Three days after dining out, Berkheimer claimed he was feverish and unable to keep his food down, so he visited the emergency room. While being examined, a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and was causing an infection, the suit said.

Justice Joseph T Deters wrote for the majority that “a diner reading ‘boneless wings’ 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 ‘chicken fingers’ would know that he had not been served fingers.”

“The food item’s label on the menu described a cooking style; it was not a guarantee.”

I just really don't understand this.

The reason that "Chicken fingers" don't work as a comparison here is an objective reality. Chickens do not have fingers.

Chickens do have wings.

There are chicken wings that are cooked with bones. The 'boneless' wings are chicken breast pieces moulded into the shape of wings and cooked. Hence without bones.

If you are advertised 'boneless' then you should be boneless.

If we allow chicken fingers to open the door to non-boneless things to have bones, then logically many other things are possible. Such as "vegan" burgers made with red meat etc.

I can't see how this ruling makes any sense.