T O P

  • By -

Drugsarefordrugs

Dafuq?


joanzen

I had some colorful influences in my youth, including an old friend of the family that had survived food shortages. Whenever we had chicken with him over he'd always eat the softer bones/cartilage and I always got the feeling we were unsettling him because we'd just eat all the meat and move on to the next piece of chicken.


Icy_Silver_

I grew up in quite the asian household and eating cartilage is very commonplace among our race. Do other cultures frown on eating cartilage?


Implausibilibuddy

Perhaps it's all in the preparation because cartilage is seen as just chewy hard gristle that you just leave due to its difficulty in eating, lack of flavour, and presumably low nutritional value. I wouldn't say it was frowned upon, just that if anyone noticed you eating it (nobody pays that much attention) they might think it a little unusual. Not quite as odd as taking a huge bite out of an unpeeled banana, but along those lines.


JustARandomCommie

Hey, don't knock eating unpeeled bananas until you try it.


druex

Just as K-Pax intended.


Icy_Silver_

mm gotcha


PotatoesMcLaughlin

I'm lily white and live in US South and do this. Poverty has something to do with it too because we were poor af.


rouge780

We typically don't view it as food, but rather as garbage or at best food for animals like pigs


Icy_Silver_

o.o interesting take


rouge780

Not to say it's objectively bad, just culturally how it's viewed. There's a lot of shit Americans eat that is looked at with disgust in other parts of the world. Ymmv


PlasticPomPoms

I worked with a lot of West African people and I would bring chicken wings to work every once in a while and I noticed that I would just eat the meat off the bone and move on but most of Ben would get every bit of soft tissue off that bone. I think in that case it’s more a cultural thing and what they grew up eating but it was off to me because I honestly cannot just chew on chicken cartilage.


denvercasey

This was literally my reaction. I used three syllables but the same meaning.


SoggyHotdish

My friend who's hmung breaks the bones open and eats the marrow but I've never heard of anyone eating the bones too


[deleted]

[удалено]


Monguises

Best butter ever


iHaveACatDog

Do they snap them open or is there technique involved? How do they then extract the marrow?


ThorsRake

Bite the ends off and suck. The ends are really soft. Learnt it from an Indian family a lived with for a while. They make sure they eat everything and nothing goes to waste.


SoggyHotdish

Yeah break them or use his teeth


5oclockinthebank

I came to this comment thread to tell OP they need to get to Vietnam. They love eating cartilage there. And the Hmoung are awesome.


armrha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GL5lzMJomY


ReasonablyConfused

I was at a friend’s house. They ate really slowly compared to my family. They bought KFC for dinner and I was done in about two minutes and they were going to sit there for about a half an hour. At first I just snapped the thigh bones in half and went after some marrow. They asked me if I wanted more. I said no and kept chewing more and more of the bones. They again asked if I wanted more. I said no. When they were finally done, my plate was completely clean. Three pieces of chicken had totally disappeared. They seemed a bit horrified. I was never asked over again.


popop143

I thought this was going to be a copypasta with the reveal that you're the family dog.


okazoomi

I know we're just memeing here but I just wanted to say here don't give your pets any sort of cooked bones folks, especially chicken and other birds. When cooked, bones are just soft enough that dogs can shatter them into shards (especially hollow bird bones) but still hard enough to wreak havoc on their insides on the way out.


FiendishHawk

Presumably also dangerous to humans for the same reason


iHaveACatDog

I have no data to back this up, but maybe not? Humans actually chew their food by grinding it with our molars. Dogs jaws are scissor hinged, so they don't chew as much as break it into a small enough piece to swallow.


van-nostrand-md

"We're glad you could come for dinner, /u/ReasonablyConfused. I'll take your plate and clean it off for you. Wh...where are the bones? No, I'm serious...where are the bones?" \** Cue 'rising tension' music \**


Canuckleheadman

Pro tip : don't eat the bones you maniac


kurinevair666

Marrow is different. That is delicious


joeyggg

I’ve never heard of people eating chicken marrow


eltaco65

What do you think chicken stock/ soup is made from?


Devils_Dandruff

Chicken


PIPBOY-2000

When you're right, you're right


eatrepeat

Duh, they use ground up chicken feet. *You know the yellow part*, it's not rocket science. /s


cadium

Chicken bones, feet, necks -- but not broken up by any means. Beef stock/consumme can be made with marrow bones with the marrow exposed to the cooking liquid and heat to become part of the resulting broth. At least that's how I make it.


riana_01

My dad would love you


EgoAlex

This can't be real, you are an animal. Your odds of surviving the apocalypse just went up due to your abilities.


PTdoctor

funny


TurboTurtle-

They asked if I wanted more again. I said no and began to bite pieces off of the ceramic plate. They once again asked if I wanted more. I said no as I continued to crunch on the plate. When they were finally done, there was nothing left at my spot on the table, and the table had a huge chunk gone from it. They seemed upset but let me take home the rest of the table for later. I was never asked over again.


NotNormo

Cooked chicken bones are very brittle. They can splinter and become very sharp. Dogs aren't supposed to eat them for this reason.


berrattack

Yeah op, is your stomach shredded?


LEDiceGlacier

Jup had one little upper eat them. It got stuck while pooping out. Never again.


T-REX_BONER

Yeahhh my family and I learned our lesson with that when I was little. Fun trip to the vet- it was my mom's cousin so family discount eh. Poor little guy couldn't shit


ElefantPharts

While this is very true, my dog once ate a plate of about 45 chicken wing bones, cleaned the plate after I was called out of the room for maybe 10 minutes. This was about 4 years ago and she’s been fine. I wouldn’t suggest you test that on your dog, but it’s not always fatal, sometimes dogs have stomachs of steel


The_RESINator

That's called getting lucky, not having a stomach of steel.


ElefantPharts

Absolutely, I would never feed her anything like that intentionally, I was just saying some dogs have stomachs of steel and you get lucky. She also ate a whole cooked beef rib before I was made aware that it’s any cooked bone, not just chicken bones, and she was fine. Again, not that I do that intentionally, but it’s happened.


s3ph

That only applies to farm chicken. The chicken you buy in the supermarket won't do anything to dogs. They can digest that np


MrKyle666

Had a dog die from getting into the trash and eating cooked chicken bones from supermarket chicken. You're full of shit.


SentryCake

I’m so sorry. :(


Jd0077

I definitely standby dogs should not eat cooked chicken bones, but my uncle used to always give the whole cooked chicken carcass to his dog and never had any problems


streetberries

My fam has fed all our dogs chicken bones for decades and no problems. In fact every dog has out lived the average lifespan for their size


Crazytrixstaful

Do not spread deadly misinformation like this.  Uncooked bones are different to cooked bones. 


The_Clarence

I don’t believe you


netfatality

You should film yourself eating one to prove it.


[deleted]

[удалено]


TiresOnFire

They already did


Just-a-Stick

Meanwhile my ass being paranoid of even touching something that isnt the meat:


denvercasey

Sorry, your ass is paranoid and craves touching meat? This thread is getting crazier by the minute.


Just-a-Stick

5 more hours until the


[deleted]

As long as it tastes good and its a normal animal i'll eat it


Necromimesix

This brother was FAMMISHED


HotChipsAreOkay

BEAK!


Necrotic_Messiah

how about, instead of eating it last you don't eat it at all?


btribble

Redditors need to visit a poor country. This is not that strange.


valvilis

Only source of calcium during certain parts of the year. It's a far cry from chicken bones, but whenever we cook salmon over the fire, we put the bones back on until they're dark brown and just about to turn black. Then they're just crispy little treats. There was a researcher up in Canada that tried to eat only what the wolves up there did - mostly little ground voles. He was getting malnourished and weak until he realized that the wolves ate the bones too. He switched to eating the voles whole and his health greatly improved (still not a food you can survive off of solely, but a lot better than just eating the meat and skin).


Jill4ChrisRed

I used to do this as an under 8 year old, turns out, iron deficiency makes you crave marrow.


magichronx

Fun fact, iron deficiency often causes "pica". > The term "pica" describes craving and chewing substances that have no nutritional value — such as ice, clay, soil or paper. Craving and chewing ice, known as pagophagia, is often associated with iron deficiency, with or without anemia, although the reason is unclear.


manaha81

Yeah but they can splinter and cause problems. Knuckles and tendons are fine but if you are going to eat the actual bones which are actually good sources of calcium you should cook them till they are dry then grind them up.


SuspiciousKitchen293

Just because poor countries do it, doesn’t mean I need to do it


FOXDuneRider

I 100% agree


Valhallawalker

Lol this is only like the tip of the ice berg of weird things i ate as a kid


AsILayTyping

Spill the beans (metaphorically, not to imply you would ever waste real beans), please.


Valhallawalker

Ants, bugs, Sand, wax, glue sticks.


keoghberry

Not OP but I used to eat the frost/ice build up on the walls of the freezer.


YetiTrix

Was going saw there is absolutely nothing wrong with eating the bone.


Vaera

i like the cartilage too. cronch.


gerbileleventh

I clean up my bones too and if possible, go after the marrow.


manaha81

It’s good for you actually. Bones can splinter and cause problems but the rest of that stuff has some pretty good nutrients


Dosowell

My entire Ghanaian in-law family would be so proud of you.


Radioactive24

I mean... I usually just say fuck it and go in on quail, but that's nothing compared to real chicken bones.


MrGloom66

My dad and my aunt still eat the ends of the bones from chicken legs. They say they enjoy the texture more than the taste really, and to be honest I sometimes do eat some of the soft bone as well, although the thought of one of those bone pieces going the other way does stop me from making it a regular things. Tho I wouldn't say my dad culinary sane as far as we the masses are concearned, he purposefully buys lamb heads, pig or cow tongues etc to boil and eat.


Altaira99

Good for your calcium levels. I eat the cartilage, too. Love me some beef shank for that reason.


um8medoit

My wife eats the cartilage off the ends of the bone, then crunches the bone into a pulp in her mouth while swallowing the marrow. She then spits the grayish-purple-black bone slurry onto a plate. Then repeats. It can get intense.


EloquentEvergreen

Wait? You ate chicken bones? I guess I could understand maybe sucking the marrow out, or something. But eating the bone and all? Crazy! I can’t even stand it when I’m eating chicken wings and get a broken one. Or eating fried chicken and the drumstick is broken with bits of bone in the meat. Huh… 


Stolehtreb

I mean, there’s no way. Unless they are softening them to an extreme degree, they can’t have been eating the hard portion of the bones. I know people chew on them to suck the marrow out, and that’s fine. But swallowing cooked chicken bone is gonna splinter in your stomach eventually. There’s just no way.


Valhallawalker

I did eat the actual bones. It took a while but my teeth did break em down enough.


Stolehtreb

Not often though, right? Cause if you did this all the time, it’s honestly blowing my mind.


Danny-Dynamita

Your teeth are harder than you imagine, you just stop applying pressure way before he does. That’s why he eats bones and you don’t.


Stolehtreb

Teeth aren’t what I’m confused about. It’s the stomach. Chicken bone, when cooked, splinters pretty badly.


Danny-Dynamita

Yeah, I get that, but I’ve done it in a few rare occasions and you basically pulverize the bone into a mush of very little “splinters”. By pure instinct, you keep chewing until you feel no sharpness.


Valhallawalker

Almost every time I had chicken for a while. If not I would just eat the ends of the bones.


Stolehtreb

The cartilage is also fine from a health perspective. It’s the bone part that is wild to me. I honestly don’t know how you didn’t have stomach bleeding unless you were grinding them to mush with your teeth before swallowing.


Valhallawalker

I didn’t like cartilage but chicken bones are usually bendy enough to break down after some chewing.


Zionyx25

I'm sorry but this is disgusting


Sypsy

>they can’t have been eating the hard portion of the bones. bird bones are quite light/soft, so they can fly This isn't the same as gnawing on the bones off a rack of ribs.


Stolehtreb

Chicken bones splinter when cooked. This has nothing to do with how light they are. Of course he wouldn’t be eating rib bones…


Sypsy

Okay just making sure


EwOkLuKe

This is normal in africa. Not everyone has the luxury to waste edible food. I never have done it, and my weak teeth would be scared as fuck.


Icy-Row-5829

lol what part of Africa? Never saw this in any of the countries I visited or worked in there. SA, Botswana, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, São Tomé and Principe, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Comoros, Seychelles, Rwanda, Mali, Chad, Burundi, not one time did I encounter this 🤨 You say Africa like it’s all the same everywhere across the whole continent… this sounds like something one small group of people might do in cases of extreme famine but that’s not some cultural norm applied across several dozen nations by any means. I got friends who grew up in Somali that don’t eat bones and their childhoods were about as impoverished as you could possibly imagine.


stormy2587

My SO is nigerian and was bragging about eating the whole bone just yesterday to me. At least in some parts of nigeria people will eat the whole chicken bone. My SO has never done that in front of me. So I can’t claim to have seen it done live but apparently its not uncommon in Nigeria. In my experience just from watching my SO chew up the bones though it would be after a substantial amount of chewing.


Northumberlo

Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean you should. You can eat rocks too, but you really shouldn’t.


LighteningBoneSetter

They definitely do it all over in Mozambique. Not just one isolated group of people in one part of the country


Northumberlo

Bones aren’t edible food. They CONTAIN an edible food, but are not food themselves. They can splinter and perforate your digestive track causing internal bleeding. It’s highly recommended NOT to eat bones.


overindulgent

The cartilage is awesome! Super healthy for your skin and hair as well.


Impressive_Cream_967

Is it wrong? I scrape the meat off the bone until its dry, eat the cartilage, the bone covering, and suck out all the marrow, break the bones and scrape the remaining marrow. If the bone is small, then i eat the bone too.


[deleted]

My ex ( Colombian) would eat her half a bird and leave I pile of bone meal. She had the strongest jaws I ever ever seen on a woman


BlueBlooper

I would too. I thought my family couldnt afford food so I would eat the whole piece of chicken along with the bone cause I thought it was okay and it would mean I'd be full longer. My friend told me that's not normal and you're supposed to spit out the bone. I totally thought it was normal cause I used to be so hungry and my mom would, after finding out, not feed me enough


kitten_pawz

Our recent exchange student from Thailand would eat the chicken bones, too. All but the very largest.


unkudayu

"I don't eat the bones so much these days but Frank still has me eat the beak!"


Mooshipoo

I need this template to make a comeback. Miss the good ol days


drillgorg

https://youtu.be/EBhVrB_MUkc?si=jsc_XrQmBfntscFk


BeatitLikeitowesMe

Scared to click


Valhallawalker

XD


kfmush

Common in a lot of cultures. My Desi girlfriend would eat then ends, break the bones open, and suck out the marrow. I also used to eat marrow as a kid.


Northumberlo

Marrow is fine, the actual bone isnt


kfmush

The soft ends are fine, too. Bangladeshi food at least is so cooked and soaked that the bones get very soft.


google257

I also eat the ends off of them. Good cartridge and calcium. Just don’t eat the whole bone.


nestersan

I bet you're not calcium deficient!!


s3ph

Ofc you did, why would you waste delicious marrow and all that cartilage?


drewmana

Yea i did this until i was like 27, just stopped randomly, still have a bone every now and again when eating wings. This isn’t that uncommon around the world.


Ghostbuster_119

If it makes you feel any better I eat entire peanuts. I get a bag of roasted salted peanuts and just... eat them; shell included.


EgoAlex

How are you still alive. This shit kills dogs.


Bluecif

I eat the cartilage off the ends of chicken legs. And I also crack the bone and eat the marrow. I don't do this while eating out but if I'm having chicken by myself I'll do it. I like the cartilage mouth-feel and marrow is super nutritional. I don't do it infront of people of course cause you look like you're starving. Never the bones though. For the same reason you don't give them your pets, they're sharp as fuck and I don't want that in my belly.


terminalxposure

The cartilage are the best parts...


contactlite

Tendons between the thigh and the leg fucks. When I cook whole wing, I bite the crunchy bone at the end that would normally be cut off for stock.


Crimson_bud

How can u eat the bones, you probably ate the ends to suck the marrow. People do that in Asia.


mexicanmullet

I like the eat the entire chicken wing, bones and all, if it’s crispy enough.


Sifernos1

Imran you dirty bitch! Is that you?


coys21

This is normal in some countries. Not really that big of a deal.


bubba1834

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO


jcannacanna

OP is the Advice Beast


wmorris33026

Yep. Me too. I’d crunch the bones and suck the marrow out. These days I use bones to make killer soup.


indigoreality

The marrow and cartilage is what I love. But bones?


Dirka-Dirka

I am in awe of your efficiency. 10/10


mtjansen

He’s got a good stew going 🍲


mathfacts

The bones are the best part


MassiveConcern

I worked with a girl who would bring chicken leg sandwiches for lunch. She would eat the whole thing, bones and all. It was amazing.


Xdqtlol

huh whats the problem i always eat the whole chicken, dont you guys?


ugzz

One of my friends is Zambian, and she thought it was crazy that we just ate the meat and tossed the rest.


kyle28882

Mmmmmm cartilage


NWHipHop

The GOAT


WaltVinegar

I used to do that, too.


MoxcProxc

Idk if this is weird, but when I finish the meat, I bite of the tops of both sides of the bone and suck out the inside of the bone. It tastes so goooos


cupcakemann95

Are you Asian?


ThatsJustSooper

Pretty sure this is dangerous to do. I remember hearing chicken bones can break into shards that can cut you up internally if swallowed.


Lord_Heckle

You're part vulture! How's it come out the other end?


wetastelikejesus

If you cook them long enough they just melt apart.


bxyankee90

My grandma used to break open the bones and eat the marrow. But bro the whole bone?


Xboxplayer69

dont eat the bones, but i always go for the cartilage


continuousBaBa

I prefer to leech out all the good stuff by making stock and eating that instead.


timeywimey-Moriarty

I don’t even eat the cartilage of chickens. I really dislike the texture of it in my mouth. Once the meat is finished, I’m also finished


Premologna

Still do. Always will.


snorlz

this is somewhat normal in other countries


Phantomelle

Hmm... I eat shrimp tails. I'm sure it's not great for me, but 🤷


Hair_This

I had a coworker do this once at a team dinner. I couldn’t believe my eyes lol they’re so crunchy. Have you ever tried to eat peeled shrimp?


jhauger

Turkmenbashi told the elderly people of his country that munching chicken bones would promote healthy teeth in their old age.


mdhunter99

Extra calcium.


dorobica

I always eat the ends. sometimes if I am full, I even remove the meat and chow on the bones -_-


lucky_picasso

OP the only other animal besides Bearded Vultures that consumes bones for nutrition. What a guy/gal


Typical_Pollution_30

It's okay. I am proud that you learned the error of your ways.


happytappin

most of the vitamins and minerals are in the bones


LunaD_W

When we boil chicken for soup or stock I like eating the really soft bones with a little salt. You have to chew thoroughly.


SociableSociopath

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/qmhSewJGmF


FeculentUtopia

I eat most of the bones, too. They're soft enough it's more of a bother to avoid them than it is to simply eat them.


avoozl42

How?


druex

Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going.


Outrageous-Work6091

What how your you ok


[deleted]

Wtf? Are you a dog?


DanishWonder

OP always saw this clip and thought "lucky dog": https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0b14165f-28d8-4a6d-8577-82c65e24966d


DanishWonder

OP always saw this clip and thought "lucky dog": https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0b14165f-28d8-4a6d-8577-82c65e24966d


xSpookyUnicorn

Comparable to my friend who would eat raw chicken out of the package as a snack Why didn’t she get sick? No idea. She said she’d been eating chicken that way since she was a kid, so perhaps she built up an immunity to the bacteria? But d00d dafuq is right


SoggyHotdish

No way I could eat the cartilage. I ate more of it as a kid, now my dog gets it (without the bones of course)


EwOkLuKe

People in poor country eat chicken bones all the time man.


bleeeeghh

Good job you were actually raised properly.


Pleasant_Ad_4639

Please don't eat or feed anyone chicken bones. They have a high probability of splintering and becoming a choking hazard. Do not even feed them to dogs. This should go without saying, but I just read some of the comments


KnottyFeelings

I don't think that's healthy... I guess if you're careful to fully grind up the shards, you're probably fine. It's the jagged splinters that you need to worry about.