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Judge: it’s OK to advertise chicken nuggets as “boneless wings”

Rob Beschizza
Feb 18, 2026
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U.S. District Judge John Tharp dedicated 10 pages to resolving one of society’s greatest problems: aren’t boneless wings just chicken nuggets? His answer favored Buffalo Wild Wings, sued for marketing the latter as the former: sure they are, but it doesn’t matter because the words mean nothing. The sports bar chain may contin…

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