At the bequest of the assembled mothers, we did NOT cook in any meaningful way for Mother’s Day. Instead, we largely did takeout: a peach cobbler from a restaurant with an ace of a baker, red beans, rice, and lemon pepper wings & thighs.
Well…we WANTED lemon pepper thighs. Turns out, Wing Stop doesn’t make them anymore. Instead, they have “Thigh Bites” a boneless nugget like thing. Thing is, these were the exact opposite of why their thighs had been ordered. Where the thighs had been juicy, tender, meaty and perfectly seasoned, the tiny Thigh Bites had a breading to meat ratio that resulted in tiny, dry, over breaded and overseasoned- pretty much crunchy little nuggets of chicken. They were barely edible with the honey mustard or ranch dressing dipping sauces.
How bad are they? I decided to try some in a salad the next day- greens, onions, tomatoes, radish sprouts, celery and the reheated nuggets topped with an Italian dressing. The results were better…but still not good. There was still WAAAY too much breading compared to the meat. The Thigh Bites were doing double duty as protein and croutons.
Well…we WANTED lemon pepper thighs. Turns out, Wing Stop doesn’t make them anymore. Instead, they have “Thigh Bites” a boneless nugget like thing. Thing is, these were the exact opposite of why their thighs had been ordered. Where the thighs had been juicy, tender, meaty and perfectly seasoned, the tiny Thigh Bites had a breading to meat ratio that resulted in tiny, dry, over breaded and overseasoned- pretty much crunchy little nuggets of chicken. They were barely edible with the honey mustard or ranch dressing dipping sauces.
How bad are they? I decided to try some in a salad the next day- greens, onions, tomatoes, radish sprouts, celery and the reheated nuggets topped with an Italian dressing. The results were better…but still not good. There was still WAAAY too much breading compared to the meat. The Thigh Bites were doing double duty as protein and croutons.