[workerbee]

My grandma (God rest her) used to complain about the price of chicken wings. "Used to be they were scraps," she grumbled. "Now, they're all BUFFALO, and they're up to $0.89 a pound! Can you believe that? For wings?"

(she died in 2002)

[DemforBush]

My mom often makes similar comments about the price of wings. As a kid, we often had fried chicken wings for dinner. I always thought it was a treat. I didn’t realize it was also a way that mom could feed a family of seven for very little money. They were a “butcher’s cut”, cheap parts that you could get for next to nothing.

We also ate a lot of beef shanks (makes a good pot roast), another once cheap cut that’s gotten pricey.