Chicken Wing Soup?

Indeed, soup has been a staple of the Jewish diet for decades, often being served up on Friday night for the shabbas meal. Some Jewish families even consider it a minhag avoseinu beyadeinu. In random supermarkets in far out places with zero Jews, it can be found under the brand name Manischewitz right alongside their gefilte fish and matzah. Jews for centuries have consumed this dish and it even powered the Hebrew Hammer.
Now, for those of you who have had a few meals at different places throughout Crown Heights, you will have noticed that the chicken soup that everyone serves is virtually the same. I assume that there is one soup mix sold in Kahns which all of Crown Heights uses. Now this is fine, as the Crown Heights Chicken Soup" is fairly good save for one exception. Imagine my surprise the first time I received a bowl of Crown Heights Chicken Soup only to find it filled with a couple chicken wings. Completely baffled, I looked around the rest of the table to see if anyone else was experiencing the same disbelief which I was. Clearly not, as everyone was digging in.
Now, as I'm sure you all know, soup is supposed to be consumed with a spoon. In keeping to this rule, soup should only contain those components which CAN be consumed with a spoon. Now with the inclusion of chicken wings, I deduced that they can only be handled in one of three ways:

1. With a fork and a knife
2. With your hands
3. Not be eaten at all, just admired as you try to pick around them to try to get some soup broth on your spoon

Now, the issue here is that there is no way to eat them with a spoon, so why put them in your soup in the first place? You cannot eat this soup without making a complete mess of it. One could make the argument that it makes the wings more flavorful. While the Crown Heights Chicken Soup is moderately flavorful, none of that flavor transfers over to the wings inside. Ever. It is a major mystery to me as to why they are included in the first place, but just like chicken soup, it can probably be blamed on minhag avoseinu beyadeinu.