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Fowl call: Nebraska man urges city council to rename boneless chicken wings

LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska man had city council members clucking during Monday night’s meeting, even though he had a bone to pick with them.

Anders Christensen made a passionate argument to Lincoln City Council members during the public comments section of the meeting, urging them to consider renaming boneless chicken wings, the Lincoln Journal-Star reported.

The tongue-in-cheek presentation by Christensen, son of City Council Member Roy Christensen, was delivered solemnly as he suggested that Lincoln “has the opportunity to be a social leader in this country.”

“We have been casually ignoring a problem that has gotten so out of control that our children are throwing around names and words without even understanding their true meaning, treating things as though they’re normal,” Anders Christensen said. “I’m talking about boneless chicken wings. I propose that we as a city remove the name boneless wings from our menus and from our hearts.”

Christensen claimed that boneless chicken wings do not come from the wing of a chicken, arguing that they are “just chicken tenders, which are already boneless.”

“I don’t go to order boneless tacos. I don’t go and order boneless club sandwiches,” Christensen said. “We need to raise our children better. Our children are raised being afraid of having bones attached to their meat. That’s where meat comes from. It grows on bones. We need to teach them that the wing of a chicken is from a chicken, and it’s delicious.”

Christensen suggested several substitute names for the food, including “Buffalo-style chicken tenders,” “wet tenders,” “saucy nuggs” or “trash.”

“We can take these steps and show the country where we stand and that we understand that we’ve been living a lie for far too long” Christensen said. “We know it because we feel it in our bones.”

It was unclear what political party Christensen belonged to. He was not claimed by left-wingers -- or by right-wingers.

In a statement, Buffalo Wild Wings officials said they took exception to Christensen’s characterization of boneless chicken wings.

“Boneless wings are not nuggets,” the company tweeted, adding tongue in cheek that Christensen was wanted for “wing slander.”

“We serve boneless wings – and we love them,” the company said in a statement. “So while we disagree with Anders on his mission, we respect his passion for chicken. So this Labor Day in our sports bars in Lincoln, Nebraska, we’ll donate $1 from every boneless wing sold to the local Boys & Girls Club. Oh and Anders gets free traditional wings for a year on us.”