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15 Fast Food Chicken Wings, Ranked Worst To Best
Tastingtable ^ | 10/08/2024 | BRENDAN MCGINLEY

Posted on 10/08/2024 7:06:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Non-brand name football season is back, baby! And that means one thing: billionaires making taxpayers pay for private stadium — wait, no: fried chicken wings! Great wings are a lot of work to make, and you're busy cheering for {Athlete Embroiled in Scandal} to lead {Problematic Team Name} to [Unlicensed Big Game Name Redacted], so to save you research, I ate chicken wings at nationwide take-out spots. This guide guarantees you'll get wings worth your time and dollar so you can focus on the fandom.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: best; chickenwings; fastfood; toplist; wings; worst
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The list,

15. Little Caesars

14. Buffalo Wild Wings GO

13. Papa John's

12. Domino's

11. Checkers / Rally's

10. Pizza Hut

9. Kentucky Fried Chicken

8. bb.q Chicken

7. Bonchon

6. Popeyes

5. Wingstop

4. Atomic Wings

3. Nathan's

2. Krispy Krunchy Chicken

1. Tex's

1 posted on 10/08/2024 7:06:46 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27; SaveFerris; PROCON

How did they miss Tyler Chicken? That alcoholic chicken of theirs goes well with their wings.


2 posted on 10/08/2024 7:11:29 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Popeye’s is the first one in my area. Half of the list is hours away from me at best.


3 posted on 10/08/2024 7:16:45 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t eat a lot of chicken wings, but yesterday, I had some at I Got My Sound, a Korean chicken shack in Fullerton, Calif. This may not be for everyone, especially those who like mild, subtle flavors and eschew bold cuisines that get in your face. These wings are flavored with Szechuan peppercorns, which are not related to black peppercorns but are from a variety of ash tree that grows in the foothills of the Himalayas. They are very spicy and cause your lips and tongue to become somewhat numb, but they are loaded with antioxidants.

I will be going back.


4 posted on 10/08/2024 7:29:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Larry Lucido

He rates battered and fried chicken against naked wings, without their sauce. The fried chicken flavor is in the batter; it is not naked chicken.


5 posted on 10/08/2024 7:29:42 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: ChicagoConservative27

14. Buffalo Wild wings? They went in the trash. Fried like shoe leather.
12. Domino’s...they were really good. Not crispy but tender and juicy.
11. Checkers? They also went in the trash. Tasted like too much MSG.
6. Popeyes freshly cooked ghost pepper wings???? The bomb!
5. Wing stop? Sucks. Good fresh cut fries though.

The others I cannot comment.


6 posted on 10/08/2024 7:30:39 PM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with DEI are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

“Popeye’s is the first one in my area. “

The Popeye’s in Louisiana are better than the others.


7 posted on 10/08/2024 7:31:00 PM PDT by TexasGator (FIXED! I)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I do not like wings of any sort.

Wings, along with the backbone, neck and feet belong in a stockpot to make delicious bone broth.

(The above is the opinion of the poster who has started no franchises but can make a chicken soup that cures most ills)

8 posted on 10/08/2024 7:34:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Korean wings are the worst. Not from the heat, but all of the bread on them. Disgusting.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 7:40:44 PM PDT by 03A3 (If we can defund the police, we sure as hell can defund the FBI)
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To: Deepeasttx

I you’re around St. Augustine thru JAX up to Saint Simons Island, look for a local chain called V Pizza. They have high temperature masonry pizza ovens that they also use to roast wings, and they’re great.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 7:41:33 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not a wing fan anymore but best wings I ever had was at the 94th Air squadron in College Park MD back in the 80’s.

Skinless and free all you can eat.


11 posted on 10/08/2024 7:44:21 PM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

TPIWWR


12 posted on 10/08/2024 7:44:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I dont’ see Zaxby’s on that list either. Well, their wings aren’t their primary product, though they do sell them.

most of those names, I don’t associate with wings anyway. Little Caesar’s? Their pizza isn’t so good, so I wouldn’t expect their wings to be either.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 7:46:36 PM PDT by meyer ("When, in the course of human events,....")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bbq is my favorite on the list but there are a few batter ones near me.

Really like Korean fried chicken.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 7:49:06 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For the last year, anyplace (named or greasy spoon) that has wings, I try them
It’s still Outbacks’s wings for me.
The next best are Costco’s Kirkland Signature Cooked Garlic Pepper Seasoned Party Wings.

I will make it a point to try the wings on that list except Buffalo Wild Wings. Been there, done that . Not impressed.


15 posted on 10/08/2024 8:09:05 PM PDT by stylin19a (America-has citizens who will cross an ocean to fight for freedom but won't cross the street to vote)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Taco Mac’s
3 dollar cafe


16 posted on 10/08/2024 8:09:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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I'm waiting for fried chicken feet to gain traction. It's the next big thing.

17 posted on 10/08/2024 8:16:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My favorite wings are my own. Coat em in a mix of flour, corn starch, paprika, garlic powder, paprika, cayenne, salt and pepper. Then roll in a bowl of melted butter and put on a foil covered sheet pan. Bake in a 450 oven for 15 minutes turn and another 15. Amazing.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 8:17:44 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Useful, thank you.


19 posted on 10/08/2024 8:39:58 PM PDT by Thud
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The quality of wings varies so much, even within franchises.

We have a local franchise wing place that can be astonishingly good one time, and then the next 3 or 4 times it’s like eating cardboard slathered with congealed, way-too salty but strangely bland at the same time “sauce” — no thank you

Best wings IMO are homemade (I’m partial to Garlic-Parm or Hot Honey BBQ) — and then you throw the bones, the ends and anything else left over into the big Ziploc “scraps” freezer bag for bone broth


20 posted on 10/08/2024 8:53:17 PM PDT by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”)
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