cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17958592
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.
Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife and friends at a wing joint in Hamilton, Ohio, and had ordered the usual — boneless wings with parmesan garlic sauce — when he felt a bite-size piece of meat go down the wrong way. Three days later, feverish and unable to keep food down, Berkeimer went to the emergency room, where a doctor discovered a long, thin bone that had torn his esophagus and caused an infection.
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In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court said Thursday that “boneless wings” refers to a cooking style, and that Berkheimer should’ve been on guard against bones since it’s common knowledge that chickens have bones. The high court sided with lower courts that had dismissed Berkheimer’s suit.
Bone-less not bone-free
As a German I assumed that the “less” in such adjectives are not talking about the word less as fewer, but is adapted from the German suffix “-los”, which means “free”.
It implies “free” in English too, the “fewer” meaning is probably from marketing people covering their ass. It’s a play on stainless steel, in that it can still rust but mostly doesn’t.