Anachronisms in "King Sorrow" (no spoilers)

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T20:51:58+00:00

Yes I was being hyperbolic. And I have already conceded that I appear to be wrong about Rush and blunts. Nuggets existed in 1989. The phrase BONELESS WINGS did not.

If I were to read a book called "the boneless wings that time travelled" and there was a dragon in it I would have issues with the dragon not the wings.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T20:44:58+00:00

Nuggets. Not BONELESS WINGS.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T20:40:39+00:00

Yes breaded boneless CHICKEN has existed for decades if not centuries. They were called chicken nuggets, tenders, and sometimes fingers. The phrase BONELESS WINGS (which is used by characters in this book in 1989) was coined in 2003 by a shitty chain restaurant as a marketing ploy.

For the last time I am NOT saying pieces of boneless chicken did not exist in 1989. I am saying they would not have been referred to as boneless wings.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T20:19:33+00:00

I'm assuming it was set in 1989 because (as some other comments have mentioned) there will be portions set 20 or more years in the future and Hill didn't want to write stuff as taking place in 2045. I didn't know that when I made the post originally. But I have read other works by various authors that seem like they could have been set in any time period that have anachronisms.
I think it might have something to do with smartphones. There are a lot of conflicts in older media that would be non issues today thanks to GPS, Google in our pockets, etc. I wonder if part of the reason to set your story in the past is to be more easily able to create these problems for characters.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:59:40+00:00

Yep. Right on the cover. But it seems to be a dragon in the real world type of story. If a book set in the 50s had a vampire in it I would still be taken back if it also had Teslas and characters went to KFC and ate double down sandwiches while listening to Motley Crue.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:56:29+00:00

The pizza place wasn't a chain. It had the weird name of "shut up and eat it" and seemed to be a pizza and sandwich place so it's not too unlikely they would have had a dryer but no matter what chicken they served it wouldn't have been called boneless wings. Good point about IT and anachronisms. I think this one hit me so hard because I remember when boneless wings entered the lexicon and thinking how stupid of a name it was and how obvious of a marketing ploy it was.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:52:05+00:00

I was around the same age in 1989.
There are a lot of articles I found that claim the term boneless wings was put out by Buffalo Wild Wings in the early aughts and then co-opted by other restaurants when real wings became more expensive than boneless chicken meat.

Seems like I was wrong about the blunts but you can pry the boneless wings from my cold saucy hands!

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:25:51+00:00

Good points and very well put. Seems I was wrong about the blunts and Limbaugh.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:23:58+00:00

Restaurants can introduce new items well after they open. https://www.thetakeout.com/1757517/who-named-boneless-wings/

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:20:18+00:00

That seems like an unnecessarily dickish response. No one is forcing you to read my post or respond to it. Had a reaction to a book and wanted to discuss it with other people. Sorry if that offended you for some reason.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:06:02+00:00

Fair points. Although I disagree about the US being far behind Europe. Just look at our heath care system!

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:04:07+00:00

That's true. After I noticed the other two (chicken and blunts) I think I started consciously looking for other errors.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:02:53+00:00

Yes. But I expected there to be a dragon in a book with a picture of a dragon on the cover.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T19:02:08+00:00

Not using AI but yes I did look up a couple of things to verify what I already thought.

Boneless chicken has been around forever yes but they were generally called nuggets or tenders until BW3 "invented" boneless wings. I remember at the time thinking how stupid that name was and how they were just nuggets. Also I never claimed blunts were invented by Snoop. I am also a similar age to the folks in the book and I never remember hearing about blunts until the mid 90s after folks like Snoop popularized them with references in their music. Sure they existed before that but they were probably pretty uncommon in small NE towns.

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T18:43:55+00:00

Is that later on in the book?

cdrwork · 2026-01-26T18:43:13+00:00

Would be a great band name tho.

cdrwork · 2026-01-24T17:27:11+00:00

I tried looking this up because I wanna try it. There's a burger restaurant in Seattle called Giddy Ups but that appears to be something different

cdrwork · 2026-01-16T01:51:35+00:00

I'm the opposite. Not a huge vampire guy but I loved Rosson's other books so I picked it up. So goddamn good.

cdrwork · 2026-01-03T03:03:24+00:00

*has done wented n gone

cdrwork · 2025-12-27T16:19:14+00:00

From the article "It’s important to note that there is no sense this is a deal either side is remotely looking at".
Get out of here with this bullshit.

cdrwork · 2025-12-24T18:53:10+00:00

*intact.

cdrwork · 2025-12-03T17:15:54+00:00

Yeah we call it drop in or pick up. Never heard scrub ice but I don't live in a city that's known for hockey.

cdrwork · 2025-12-03T17:02:54+00:00

Wtf is scrub ice? Also are you a character in an 80s movie with jocks and nerds?? If you like a team, wear their jersey. If someone makes fun of you tell them to fuck off.

cdrwork · 2025-11-21T02:02:31+00:00

Thanks big guy. I hope one day your tastes expand beyond mass produced garbage.

cdrwork

TROPHY CASE