Chicken wing restaurants continue to pop up everywhere in this country — there are Wingstop, Buffalo Wild Wings, Aaron Sorkin's West Wings. Now, McDonald's is getting in on the act with Mighty Wings. They're available in three-piece, five-piece, and Who-Am-I-Kidding-I've-Got-Nothing-Left-To-Prove-piece.
Peter: I was as surprised to find an actual bone in this as I would be to find a bone in a banana.
Eva: How McDonald's got the bones in the nugget is the modern version of the classic ship in a bottle mystery.
Ian: Yeah, Mighty Wings are basically McNuggets With Choking Hazards.
Miles: The new advertising calls them "bold," and it's not kidding. One of these wings just asked my girlfriend out.
Ian: When you die at a state fair, this is what your wings look like when you get to heaven.
Eva: I just don't want to know what horrible workplace accident led to this. "Let's just call it a wing and sell it!"
Peter: It was genuinely a surprise to see that McDonald's food comes from actual animals. I thought all this time it was made from the people still sitting there when they close.
![We told Robert whoever could pull the bone from the Mighty Wing got to be King of England.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8a314ff/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1620x1214+0+0/resize/880x659!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2013%2F09%2F30%2Fphoto-4-3--fcb0134d3284542b8cb3c4772a6a470e7f2b7be1.jpg)
Robert: This is what happens when a first-year student at Hogwarts spills Skele-Gro on his owl nuggets.
Miles: It's strange that, in all of the pictures of that pink slime, we never noticed it had wings.
![After being surprised by the bone in the Mighty Wing, Eva vows to X-ray all her food before she eats it from now on.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/efdc04f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1544x1158+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2013%2F09%2F30%2Fphoto-3-4--9157f5e76553db974f7ba82f80069b24bbe94a1a.jpg)
Miles: So, if the Hamburgers have the Hamburglar, what do Mighty Wings have? The Bone Collector?
Robert: The only animal I ever heard called mighty was Mighty Mouse. Come to think of it, that might have been a more palatable menu option.
![This photograph represents Mike's favorite Fox Network crime comedy-drama.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8bf52a8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1569x1177+0+0/resize/880x660!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2013%2F09%2F30%2Fphoto-5-4--3c271a5f8acc11a4019ac54117d3cabf42dec5f5.jpg)
Ian: The Mighty Shamrock Shake has leprechaun bones in it. So tiny!
Eva: If you get the wishbone, you can wish to go back in time before you ordered this.
Peter: I'm a little worried about the bin that says "PLACE BONES HERE FOR RECYCLING."
[The verdict: Unsettlingly delicious! If you like a McNugget, you'll like this, but don't swallow them whole the way you do with a McNugget.]
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