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Re:Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones,Ohi... by bpodgursky on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:38PM (#41074921)
It is only "far outside the bounds of expectation" if you have no world model of how your food is actually produced.
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Re:Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones,Ohi... by derlvative on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:33PM (#41075130)
It's outside bounds of expectation if you know how language works. People expect products labelled "boneless" to have no bones. Words mean things.
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Re:Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones,Ohi... by powersnail on Friday July 26, 2024 @03:57AM (#41076692)
Well, I'd also expects "boneless wings" to be wings, but apparently that is not true, either.

Product naming has become an area where "meaning" is no longer a thing. It's the sad reality where advertisement has replaced communication.

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Re:Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones,Ohi... by Aeolun on Friday July 26, 2024 @06:42AM (#41077504)
I have no clue what ‘boneless wings’ are, having never seen or heard of them before. But I’m entirely confident about what ‘boneless’ means.

Boneless (adjective): without a bone

Apparently a lot of people feel that if I were to go into a store in the US and order a boneless chicken, I should expect it to have bones in. That doesn’t compute for me.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/e4/e417a00a1d7c6f84ec4b88cad9d2...

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