u/Kraknaps

Hey Henchmen. How about you all gang up and attack our hero at one time instead of lining up like your buying concert tickets. Next!

Whenever I read a post, I am never quite sure if the pieces of chicken being referred to are the same pieces I am thinking of. I worked for many years in a poutry processing plant and also have a decent understading of other animal butchery. The leg consists of the drum stick and the thigh...attached. It is one piece. When you seperate the pieces you have a drum (the lower portion excluding the foot) and a thigh (the upper portion that attaches to the body). If you have an entire leg that still has a portion of the back on it, it is a back-attached leg or a dark meat quarter (sometimes called a Henry VIII leg) . Wings also cause some confusion. A wing has three sections...a drumette/drumlet, a wingette/winglet/bar/flat and a tip/3rd flight. All three pieces still attached is a wing. If there is only two pieces attached you have a tip-removed wing. If you have tip removed wings that have been cut into two sections you have split wings. If split wings are sorted and sold as individual types of pieces they are drumettes or wingettes.