{"id":30115,"date":"2024-07-26T02:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30115"},"modified":"2024-07-26T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:22:12","slug":"its-ok-for-boneless-chicken-wings-to-have-bones-ohio-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30115","title":{"rendered":"It’s OK for ‘boneless’ chicken wings to have bones, Ohio Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual \u2014 boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkheimer sued the restaurant, Wings on Brookwood, saying the restaurant failed to warn him that so-called \u201cboneless wings\u201d \u2014 which are, of course, nuggets of boneless, skinless breast meat \u2014 could contain bones. The suit also named the supplier and the farm that produced the chicken, claiming all were negligent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said Thursday that \u201cboneless wings\u201d refers to a cooking style, and that Berkheimer should\u2019ve been on guard against bones since it\u2019s common knowledge that chickens have bones. The high court sided with lower courts that had dismissed Berkheimer\u2019s suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA diner reading \u2018boneless wings\u2019 on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating \u2018chicken fingers\u2019 would know that he had not been served fingers,\u201d Justice Joseph T. Deters wrote for the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dissenting justices called Deters\u2019 reasoning \u201cutter jabberwocky,\u201d and said a jury should\u2019ve been allowed to decide whether the restaurant was negligent in serving Berkheimer a piece of chicken that was advertised as boneless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe question must be asked: Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken? Of course they don\u2019t,\u201d Justice Michael P. Donnelly wrote in dissent. \u201cWhen they read the word \u2018boneless,\u2019 they think that it means \u2018without bones,\u2019 as do all sensible people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5780],"tags":[29817,25137,1830,5307,4174],"class_list":["post-30115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livehood","tag-boneless-chicken-wings","tag-bones","tag-ohio","tag-ruling","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30117,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions\/30117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}