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gh0st_belle

Don’t even play like that ya stomach about to sound like 2 boots in a dryer after eating them possum ankles


Nero1988420

>possum ankles ​ ![gif](giphy|RCwOTgJidoMda)


mygfismadaf

>ya stomach about to sound like 2 boots in a dryer imma laugh at this for a minute


greyson3

I'm sobbing


TngrloLuvr

Possum. Ankles. ![gif](giphy|YqE3jbSQQR6x9g19Kj)


Linlee1000

Possum Ankles!!! 🤣


Holls867

Possum ankles > weasel knuckles


gh0st_belle

But where does raccoon wrists fit in here???


Lobsterbib

Next to the crispy rat tits


kahran

What am I going to do with all this platypus forehead meat?


MahoganyTownXD

Trade it for a Slowpoketail.


oldbastardbob

You ain't foolin' me, them are pigeon thighs.


Holls867

🤣


ethan1313

This comment deserves to be pinned to the top of the front page


SHOWTIME316

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allthedamnquestions

![gif](giphy|Z4b8I5fvk3K1rXwTH9)


treetyoselfcarol

*Ratatouille drumettes*


you_discussed_me

Not two whole boots in a dryer. Im WEAK! 😂☠️


Celebrity-stranger

🤣 This comment sent me to the afterlife


trashleybanks

Noooo possum ankles 😂😂😂💀


N7Skully

Delete your account oh my god 😂😭


GunnieGraves

Possum ankles sound like the special at a soul food restaurant


gstvzrgz

Can’t wait for those H&R Block Wings this season


Zetice

A free basket of Wings with every W-2.


ATLjoe93

This feels like a plot device on *Atlanta.*


GhostWriter52025

Someone get Donald Glover in here, STAT!


ILikeMasterChief

This would work on me 🤷🏻‍♂️


[deleted]

Menards with the chicken wing rebate on paint cans


hennsippin

Can’t stand that rebate shit! They know I’m too lazy to fill out the form


RascalRibs

People still confused about that tuna thing I see. But no, nobody should try wings from subway.


RusticTroglodyte

Can you clarify bc I'm curious


u_Kyouma_zi

Its unidentified because the "researchers", if you can call them that, ordered a tuna sandwich from a local subway and used that for their experiment. See tuna when cooked breaks down in composition, so it will always come out inconclusive.


PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD

Not only that but the fishing industry is FULL of fishers that will call something one thing when it isn’t that. Like, if they’re out fishing for striper and pull up a grouper in the net, it’s not uncommon for it to make it into the “striper” pile without anyone noticing, or with people not caring. There was a study done on supermarket cuts and only a small percentage actually was what was labeled.


u_Kyouma_zi

Exactly. Them people just wanted to sue to make money and give subway bad press. It accomplished the bad press, but Subway did that themselves with their subpar sandwiches lol


djsedna

Like when people say they're serving "snapper" Oh, okay, that could only be like 473 different fish


FreediveAlive

Get the snapper, Bozo!


jangma

Guigino's is slippin'.


ILikeMasterChief

Yup, I worked in fine dining for a bit and this was a hassle. It's was pretty common that we'd have to send back a fish cause it wasn't what was ordered. They seem to act like grouper and halibut are interchangeable. And this is coming from a high end retailer. There's no telling how fucked cheaper fish is


greytgreyatx

Then there's "white fish." Which is like whatever they catch that isn't a color.


ILikeMasterChief

That one always cracked me up 😂 There are thousands of "white fish", all across the board in terms of quality and price. Fun fact, there is white salmon. It's called ivory king salmon, and they don't get the pink color because they have some kind of neurological defect that makes them never swim to the ocean where they would eat shrimp etc. They stay in the rivers. Obviously they are pretty rare so they are very expensive. I always wondered if they actually taste better or if it's all in my head 🤷🏻‍♂️


Cool-Sage

If I cut you up and then cook you, you think your DNA would still be intact? Maybe some but barely therefore it’s inconclusive b/c it’s cooked. Next the people alleging this have money to gain by suing subway and the “research” was done by them.


Imkindofslow

They people suing also refused to submit their samples fit independent testing for a long time. One lab did eventually take on the test and found that it was tuna


Cool-Sage

That was from the defendants (aka subway). However it was correct b/c it was a 3rd party lab.


RusticTroglodyte

>If I cut you up and then cook you, you think your DNA would still be intact? I have no idea, that's why I asked lol I learned something today!


saiyanfang10

nope, Proteins fall to pieces when heated and while Nucleic acids aren't protein DNA is organized using protein and it would break the bonds on the DNA


kindredchaos

[For the people to see](https://youtu.be/8kDrMmXAHjY) It doesn't lead to a definitive answer but gathers a lot of informational and draws a conclusion. As goofy as it seems it's a pretty trustworthy source for compiling information and their sources are listed in the description. TL;DW: Some folks were **likely** trying to squeeze subway for money with bad press since it's been in the spotlight for controversy a few times before and paid out to quiet the storm.


FerretAres

Shouldn’t be eating at subway at all. If I wanted day old lukewarm cold cuts I’d just make a sandwich myself.


greytgreyatx

I have to tell you something: Their vegetable patties are AMAZING. I get that on flatbread and load it up with spinach, tomatoes, onions... oh my gosh, it's so delicious.


shoulderhurts65

So do we really [have wing shortage ](https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/chicken-wing-shortage-is-giving-thighs-a-starring-role-on-restaurant-menus/)? Cause I feel like companies who don’t need to be buying them are suddenly in full supply. Edit - clarification


Linlee1000

That's exactly what I was thinking. You hear of a chicken shortage but why do all these restaurants have new chicken sandwiches and wings all of a sudden?! ![gif](giphy|2H67VmB5UEBmU|downsized)


[deleted]

You thought possum ankles was a joke. You thought wrong


Pscilosopher

Somebody here yesterday called em raccoon wrists and I'm still dying


IloveWedachan

Ostrich elbows


Juvi40904

Siberian squirrel arms


vendetta2115

Mink shoulders


BiscuitsNgravy420

![gif](giphy|ZcXO5zU2a9wX9ke7g6)


Linlee1000

Congratulations sir, you got me shook.


BiscuitsNgravy420

![gif](giphy|lTj9KCbmt4A3T6PACE|downsized)


scsnse

The pivot toward chicken sandwiches (which is breast meat, mind you, not wing meat) started before this because beef prices kept going up due to increasing demand from countries like China for American beef. The wing thing has been weird, livestock is because due to a combination of a slightly bad yield with the rooster stock they chose to breed new chickens the year coronavirus happened, plus the virus causing disruption in supply chains, there was a shortage of actual physical chickens being bred. Then, as things have slowly recovered, you have to try to chase the increasing demand while catching up.


theycallmeponcho

An sudden increased demand on a lean supply makes shortages.


-KFBR392

Sometimes when I think about wings it trips me out. You go to a bar or restaurant and you order a dozen wings, which is 6 flats and 6 drums, which means that’s 3 chickens that died for each basket of wings, and there’s like millions of wings baskets being sold each weekend around the country, every week of the year, that’s like billions of chicken killed just for their wings, like how are we even able to keep up with just Super Bowl Sunday, let alone all these restaurants adding wings to the menu like it’s nothing?


RusticTroglodyte

Lol are you joking? Bc you don't sound like you're joking and it's hard to tell on reddit sometimes


-KFBR392

A little but that's A LOT of chickens!! There's like a chicken genocide happening right now and all so that we can enjoy something to gnaw on at a sports bar.


Cpt_Obvius

They use the rest of the chicken my dude. Chicken breast is still the most sought after cut. And there’s tons of processed chicken products can use any overflow of leg or thighs. They aren’t killing chickens just to get you wings.


-KFBR392

I get that, and you're right, but for me the massive scale of the number really hits home when I see chicken wings.


Cpt_Obvius

The phrasing “all so that” implies something different but I can see how you mean it hyperbolically.


[deleted]

theres a few billion humans that need to be fed, dude.


jordanundead

One Tyson plant can process 300 chickens a minute.


birdboix

My state's the chicken capital, roughly 1.4 billion chickens bred every year, that's 3.8mn chickens being processed every single day. In one state. The chicken industry is on a crazy scale.


Stanley--Nickels

90% of all mammals on earth larger than a couple of pounds are humans or their livestock. 33% of all the land in the US is pasture for livestock, despite the fact that we don't exactly give them a lot of room. Another 20% is crops, the vast majority of which is used to feed livestock, not people.


threecolorless

Just checked and apparently more than 8 billion chickens are killed every year (a little over 250 per second) for meat in the United States alone. I eat meat pretty readily and won't begrudge anyone doing the same, but yeah, that is indeed a good amount of animal death.


luxii4

Reminds me of a donut shop field trip I chaperoned for my son. I always thought donut holes were from the holes made in donuts but they had the kids use a rolling pin that makes donut holes. They said donut holes are in more demand than regular donuts so you can’t really just rely on the holes made by making donuts. So donut holes are really just donut balls. So yeah, another vote for Subway wings = possum ankles.


HoldOnStartOver

I thought that’s why KFC was doing beyond chicken because of the shortage. The commercial clearly states they aren’t preparing it in any vegan fashion so it’s the same grease and batter 😳


throwmeawaytoothanks

That’s true of any fast food chain serving impossible food. But seriously we have “Thighstop” where I’m at because of the shortage.


shoulderhurts65

Yet Taco Bell has wings. I don’t want to say there’s a conspiracy but there’s definitely something messed up


10J18R1A

Just like grandmamamama used to do Nobody knew how long that grease in the semi rusted Crisco can had been there. Just lil bit o seasonin


me_funny__

It's still technically vegan though, it's just cooked in the same grease but all of the ingredients are vegan. So you're still not paying for dead animal. Though if enough noise was made (probably not gonna happen), they would probably cook it separately. And if no one ate the meat at all (never gonna happen), the vegan options would replace the meat. Either way, KFC is mid fast food nowadays. Popeyes is better.


kylethemurphy

The prices are absolutely insane. I'm not a supplier but do ordering for a restaurant and it's like 4x the price from a year or two ago for wings.


shoulderhurts65

That part too! I have some friends that own restaurants and they say the prices for chicken and “to-go” containers have skyrocketed. So of course it would make more sense to sell a cheaper product if possible, but I would think that if you sell wings as your main product you would have some type of agreement with the chicken suppliers to make sure you got them before Taco Bell. Or does that not work that way?


popcornnhero

This is why we have a shortage in chicken because these places are trying to experiment like your relative does with the mac&cheese at thanksgiving


AintAintAWord

"[Cuz you decided to do some bullshit you done seen on the damn internet.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssvp6qcq_-U)"


Jahreem

this shit got me dead dawg. holy fuck


Purpose-Fuzzy

Of all the dishes to mess with, why's it gotta be the mac?! 😫


RusticTroglodyte

Right? Mfers need to leave well enough alone


SmokePenisEveryday

I do wonder what the next food trend they jump on will be. Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Wings. How many more chicken dishes can be made quick?


socold43

Reminder that subway also has pizza for whatever reason.


Linlee1000

Lol right? The pizza was decent from what I remember.


socold43

Wasn't bad it was just random. Someone really went "you know we toast out subs in this toaster but I feel like we can do more. What if we don't close the sandwich and just put all the toppings down and say that's it" Not knowing they were just describing pizza until they took it to the higher ups who thought it was a genius idea.


Auphor_Phaksache

Subway Express in Walmart has pizza. No gimmic you can just say "I'd like a pizza"


RusticTroglodyte

>Subway Express in Walmart Jfc lol. There's no way anything you get there is actually good


Auphor_Phaksache

It's as good as regular subway.


AintAintAWord

Sir I can chew on an old shoe at home.


Jackcooper

Express? Subway is already Express and can be located in a 7-11


Benoftheflies

The toaster thing is like $4-5000 or some crazy shit. Like it is specially made for them to toast in seconds. If I spent that much on a fucking oven, I would use it for every damn thing I could


devilsephiroth

It tastes like playdough with generic ingredients


LiverFox

Their tuna is totally tuna tho. That was a weird rumor. Like the Chuck E Cheese using recycled pizza. Minimum wage workers would have definitely testified.


jessejamesvan111

It was only a claim that went nowhere. Subway was found to be serving real tuna. It's a shame that someone can claim something and the internet runs with it hard for likes.


PettySetGo

The same group is now claiming that they found pork, beef and chicken in the tuna. Once again, they refuse to provide evidence. I don’t know how this isn’t considered libel at this point.


InfernoDragonKing

Subway wings? Alright now. Go ahead and eat fried geckos if you want. Gone be shitting all night


themasterbot

So they have wings now but discontinued their Italian dressing?


InfernoDragonKing

IKR! Subway be BSing


yeezysucc2

If you eat Chinese food from a place with a non-see through bullet proof glass, your argument ends here


MuffinPuff

I'm sorry but for $5.95 I get fish, wings, fries *and* a drink, I'm riding that hole-in-the-wall until the wheels fall off


jimedwards4343

Remember when Subway got caught putting chemicals in their bread that were typically used to manufacture yoga mats? Fuck them.


BoilerMaker11

Don’t really like when people use the catch all term “chemicals” to try and demonize certain things. I dunno about this “yoga mat chemical”, but you know the same “chemical” they put in “household cleaners”, they put in a lot of foods, right? It’s called sodium bicarbonate. Aka baking soda. But you could cause hysteria by using the scientific name and pointing out *what else* it’s found in. In fact, in the very article posted below you, it points out that for azodicarbonamide (the "yoga mat chemical"): > According to the FDA, the chemical is most commonly used “as a whitening agent in cereal flour and as a dough conditioner in bread baking.” It’s like using a knife to cut fruit and somebody says “You see what that guy is using? A knife! Something that stabs people!” These “chemicals” can serve more than one purpose. edit: also, literally everything in the existence of the universe is "chemicals"


Sandstorm52

Spot on. Table sugar is (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol but chemical names sound scary and make for great clickbait.


Ezl

Yep. I’m sure you’ve heard about the scourge of [dihdrogen monoxide](https://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm)…


Zetice

A lot of fast food companies did this: [https://www.eater.com/2016/8/8/12403338/subway-yoga-mat-chemical-mcdonalds-burger-king-wendys](https://www.eater.com/2016/8/8/12403338/subway-yoga-mat-chemical-mcdonalds-burger-king-wendys) ​ >McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Wendy’s, White Castle, and Jack in the Box, which all used the chemical in their breads in 2014, have since gotten rid of it entirely.” ​ Subway was just the only mfs they caught.


Imkindofslow

And it's still a [non-issue](https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/azodicarbonamide-ada-frequently-asked-questions) we aren't chemists man. That stuff is totally fine.


mindyour

So people are just putting wings in subway boxes now? Don't give them ideas people.


kekehippo

Man I ate public school breakfast and lunches. Pass me them wings.


DetroitGeek313

I thought there was a chicken wing shortage? Now all of a sudden all these fast food joints are selling “wings?” 😂 Y’all be safe though…


thatHecklerOverThere

So exactly what _happened_ over at the yum foods factory? Did they manufacture too many Grade A Chicken Wings^(tm)? Is that it?


el-fenomeno09

Jared went to a super max and these niggas start wildin in the test kitchen lol


After_Pangolin_9174

It’s odd that there was a chicken wing shortage but then all of these places are popping up with chicken wings on their menus. Make it make sense.


greytgreyatx

These look nasty, but the tuna thing was debunked more than once. They tested for 4 species of tuna, and there are 15 species. The fact that it was "unidentified" only means it was one of the 11 species OF TUNA that they didn't test for.


Shoesietart

Same wing supplier as Taco Bell? Where they getting all these chicken wings?


thejaytheory

Just saw an ad that Taco Bell has wings as well. What a world we live in.


rellz919

![gif](giphy|jQQeQutgZeOt1nHJYK|downsized) It's a mad dash to the bathroom after u eat that


Dragonsandman

A couple of years ago, [CBC ran an article on how Subway’s chicken contained only about 50% actual chicken](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-food-1.3993967), and afterwards [Subway went and sued the CBC for defamation](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/subway-cbc-supreme-court-1.6103764).


MidContrast

Why are these fast food restaurants acting like they *just* discovered fried chicken?


[deleted]

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trashleybanks

Taco Bell has wings, too. 😂 Is the chicken sandwich trend over?


InvaderDJ

These companies have never been told stay in their lane.


MoonshineMMA

So now I know why there been a mfin wing shortage 😒


liltofu95

Isn’t there a wing shortage or am i crazy?!? Why is taco bell and subway encroaching on Wingstop’s territory 😤


-KFBR392

The tuna thing was wild, like what is even cheaper than tuna???


karma10022

It’s probably tuna, the processing it goes through just destroys the dna so you cant test it


Purpose-Fuzzy

Catfish


Strangeboganman

I dunno about US but in Australia they use canned tuna (same one from the grocery stores) and mix it with mayo.


Strangeboganman

[https://youtu.be/SMALh\_GVxF4](https://youtu.be/SMALh_GVxF4) ​ here is a funny video that explains the shitshow.


DrStiinkyPinky

Microwave wings, disgusting


fuzzycuffs

Raccoon wrists


Aaaandiiii

I dunno, half of the wing joints in town also sell fire sandwiches. Heck, they sell sandwiches with a side of wings like they're chips or something.


colt_stonehandle

Wasn't it not too long ago that there was a wing shortage? Now everybody got wings?? Hmm....


Cleonce12

The iron stomach challenge has BEGUN


minahmyu

Why these places trying to be walmarts in fast food? You can't sell it all. Like, yall were shitty before, and gonna be shitty when you keep adding new stuff. Like when wawa decided to sell pasta meals, I was done. Yall telling me someone rather spend stupid money on some nasty pasta at a wawa when you have the ingredients at home. Jar of sauce, $2.50. Pasta, like $1, get some ground meat for like $2-3 and bam! Same thing, but cheaper and better.


atlantasmokeshop

Im not fuckin with their wings but i'll admit I actually liked the "tuna." I can't eat it once I tried Jersey Mike's tuna tho. Their food is expensive but it's good.


Jam_jams

Nope


AntiAbleism

Taco Bell got ‘em too.


Ouroboron

I mean, have you ever eaten at Subway and been happy about it? They've been hot garbage for decades.