Several weeks ago, a meat dept. guy at a grocery store told me that he
could get me chicken wing tips. Turned out he could not. I know
where I *can* buy them, but the problem is that the minimum order is
25 metric tons, which is 55,000 pounds.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/chicken-wing-tips.html

When you buy those drummies and paddles, the "flapper" (tip) is not
included. Where do they go? What do they do with them?

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...reast-boneless

They sell them in lots of 55,000 pounds to be shipped to Asia, where
they are considered a delicacy--according to the export manager for
one of the large chicken companies. He gave me the name of a plant
manager who may be willing to sell them to me either through a
supermarket, or directly. This morning, I wrote and mailed a nice
formal business letter (remember the format from jr. high?), and am
going to follow it up next week with a phone call. It's taken me
hours of research and phone calls to get this far, and I hope that my
nicely written letter will help persuade the plant manager to sell me
them frozen, by the case--which will probably be ~25-40 pounds.

Then I'll thaw them, put them into plastic containers of a few pounds
each, lightly salt and pepper them and immediately refreeze the
containers in a deep freeze. Once they are at deep freeze
temperature, I plan to top off the containers with 32F water and
return them to the deep freeze. That's to protect them from freezer
burn. Then I can remove them one container at a time, thaw them and
fry them up crispy in oil, and coat them with a little popcorn salt
for hours of snacking pleasure that combines the deliciousness and
nutritive nature of pork rinds with the time intensive property of in-
the-shell sunflower seeds.

--Bryan