Interestingly enough, there’s a bar that this friend and I go to. They have all flats or all drums on the menu for a few cents extra per wing. He’ll pay that if he really wants all flats that day.

Drums can be cheaper, though.  Leg quarters can be cheap too and include the thigh.  Drums are probably the most economical chicken parts.

I actually think wings are annoying.  The one part is like a mini drumstick, and the other tip part hardly has any meat on it.  I much prefer strips or whatever.

While the drumstick may be a decent piece of meat and your recipes look tasty, they simply cannot stand up to wings for one reason: wings are a conduit for sauce. Cook, toss in sauce, dunk in more sauce, eat, lick sauce off your fingers. The sauce to meat ratio is 1:1 or higher. You can accomplish this with…

This is EXTREMELY correct. 

Poor woman’s chicken Parmesan

I do love a thigh, even if it doesn't have a handle.

A local bar does buffalo chicken thighs because thighs are better than both wings and drumsticks.

Im an idiot. You can absolutely DIY it in their respective sites with fillable forms and manual math.

The difference, though, is that Valvoline and Grease Monkey aren’t lobbying to prevent self-renewing oil from being the new standard, despite being proven to work elsewhere. The IRS has everything they need to cut a check or send a bill, but Intuit and H&R Block are standing in the way. That’s not paying for…

Free tickets for kids _without_ free guaranteed seat assignment together is gonna make for some wild flights.

The only tax related organization that I hold in lower regard than TurboTax is “Liberty Tax Services”, who have people stand out on the sidewalk dressed as the statue of liberty, and wave to people.

I think “house” is an ok item on the “exceptions” list.

Try and get a job without a phone.

Yep. But sometimes it’s $8 and you only have $7 no matter what you shift around.  

“When people tell me how poor they grew up because mom and dad had to work 3 jobs, to afford two cars, food and how they could barely pay the mortgage. But they attended an extracurricular camp and traveled to 5 countries.”

Iwould never tell you I know what it is like to truly be poor, but I went through some very hard years (like tons of us) in the early 2010s and just a few years of my debit card declining every once in a while has had the lasting effect of making me panic about it every fucking time with no reason. I can’t imagine the…

I wish more volunteers and organizations understood the TIME THING.

There’s a difference. Those folks with the cardboard signs at the freeway exits make a pretty good haul. Like hundreds of dollars a day. All off of the goodwill of others. You want to help the poor? That’s a good thing. Do your homework and go out and help the real poor. Not the conveniently poor.

Wow, thanks so much for this. Gonna share it far and wide. It’s particularly glaring after Wilbur Ross’ comments this week. Poverty is so much different than it used to be, too. People who grew up poor in the 60's and 70's faced a totally different set of circumstances than those who deal with it now, at least in the…