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whats the difference between boneless chicken wings and chicken tenders?

I notice on a lot of menus they have chicken wings, boneless chicken wings and chicken tenders. So what are the differences?

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1. A boneless chicken wing is the entire meat portion of a wind (or drummette) de-boned. A chicken tender is compressed chicken from any part of the chicken usually held together with a processing agent like gluten.
2. Chicken tenders are covered in batter. Boneless chicken wings are not.
3. Chicken tenders are supposed to be the strips of meat that come off the bottom of a chicken breast. Each breast half has what is referred to as a tenderloin. Chicken wings are just that, the wings from the chicken. Boneless chicken wings should be meat stripped from the drummette (the meatiest part of the wing), but in all likelihood is chicken thigh meat carved into pieces; although some online recipes do use chicken breast or tenderloin to make this, chicken thigh most closely resembles the flavor of the wing meat.
4. The sauce!