Just a quick note on what you’re eating and where it comes from.
DiGiorno is a brand of frozen pizzas sold in the United States, owned by Nestlé. In Canada, Nestlé markets a largely identical line of pizzas under the Delissio brand.
Formulated and created by Kraft, the DiGiorno brand has been available nationally in the U.S. since 1996. Delissio frozen pizzas were launched in Canada in 1999,[1]although Kraft had previously used the Delissio brand for other pizza products in the late 1980s.[2] The brand’s slogan is “It’s not delivery. It’s DiGiorno/Delissio!” In the U.S., sports personality Dick Vitale is the primary pitchman, and has appeared in TV commercials for the pizza.
Digiorno.com Products Page that showcases their new “with Wyngz” products. This is a boxed frozen pizza that also comes with a few Chicken Wyngz that you can eat alongside the pizza.
Pepperoni with Buffalo Style Wyngz
Supreme with Honey BBQ Wyngz
Three Meat with Honey BBQ Wyngz
Digiorno.com page entitled, “Wyngz?”: Clearly enough customers asked why it’s spelled “Wyngz” instead of “Wings”
The short answer: Because they’re not wings. They’re even better.
Our new DIGIORNO® Pizza & Wyngz include “Wyngz” that are boneless cuts of all-white meat chicken breast, lightly breaded, and ready to bake. Now, if you’re familiar with chicken anatomy, you probably already know the breast is not part of the wing. That’s the reason we don’t call our Wyngz… wings. And once you try them, the only thing you’ll be calling them is amazing.
USDA page on the naming of “Wyngz“: It turns out the USDA classified “Wyngz” as the following.
Under what conditions can “wyngz” be used as a fanciful term on poultry product labeling?
FSIS has a standard of identity in Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 381.170(b)(7) that defines a poultry “wing.” The use of the term “wing” cannot be used on any poultry product unless it complies with this standard of identity. In comparison, FSIS allows the use of the term “wyngz” to denote a product that is in the shape of a wing or a bite-size appetizer type product under the following conditions in which the Agency considers its use fanciful and not misleading:
- a statement that further clarifies that the product does not contain any wing meat or is not derived only from wing meat (e.g., “contains no wing meat,” “with no wing meat,” “contains breast meat and wing meat”) is placed in close proximity to the descriptive name and linked to “wyngz” by use of an asterisk. “Wyngz” referenced elsewhere on the package, e.g., on the front riser panel, would also need to be displayed with an asterisk linking it to this statement on the principal display panel.
Some DiGiorno pizzas, primarily the 12″ rising variety, use mechanically separated chicken as a meat ingredient in their pepperoni and sausage toppings, while others use more traditional ingredients.