The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.

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.

  • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    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

    • ColeSloth
      114·
      4 months ago

      Seems the judges on two different levels sided with me.

      • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
        71·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • ColeSloth
          16·
          4 months ago

          I’m just of the belief that it’s stupid to expect perfection from organic food sources.

          • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
            4·
            4 months ago

            I wouldn’t exactly call a bone in boneless wings asking for perfection. That’s actually such a low bar that I can only imagine your standards of perfect must be absolute shit. Who hurt you?

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        “appeal to republican judges” has to be the worst variant of appeal to authority.