Gristle, anyone?

[BudgieBalls]

Just curious to know - do you eat the gristle when you eat a chicken leg, for example.

Im sat here next to DP who seems to think it's the done thing and everybody does it (I know for a fact his mum does it), I on the other hand think it's disgusting and is not supposed to be eaten.

This is not reserved for chicken gristle - he even eats the ends on spare ribs. Makes me feel sick listening to him crunching away on it 😷

Aibu to think this is not normal and he should stop this revolting habit?

I don’t do gristle but I love the fat, skin and any drippings. I have been known to gnaw a couple of bones from time to time too. Also not adverse to prawn tails if the seasoning is particularly tasty, The whole animal is a shitting machine!

I think it’s more respectful to the animal and less wasteful to consume as much as possible. Same reason I occasionally partake of a cheap hotdog guilt free - lips and assholes need using up too!

I actually cant believe anyone not in a third world country would enjoy eating gristle or fat

that suggests that people ony eat it because they are poor.

They don't, it is the preferred bit, the best bit. Anything that you are brought up to think is lovely will taste and feel different than it will to someone who was brought up to think it is the worst bit.

I don't like eating any 'funny' bits in meat or fish, and avoid, but at the same time I don't react to it when things go wrong. Also the reason I don't often eat canned sardines is because of this. I do like them really and used to pick out the nice bits, but 1, it's a waste and 2, I've seen other people eat the whole thing. So I do too now. I just don't 'think' about it!

In fact a thread on here this week made me feel more sick and I didn't read much of it.

lips and assholes need using up too!

Wow that made me feel sick 😷😂 I can't eat cheap hotdogs I'd rather use a proper sausage. Although I do remember loving turkey twizzlers and I think they're just as bad, worse probably.

@budgieballs

I think the problem with turkey twizzlers, cheap nuggets etc. Is that they’re put in a kind of industrial washing machine contraption to get every last bit of a carcass. Again, I don’t have an issue with that, it’s not like I’m being charged for premium cuts.

Hypocritically I’m not into organs (kidneys, liver etc.) and they’re arguably the bits with the highest nutritional content. Can’t bare finding stray tubes...

lips and assholes need using up too!

That's why we call burger van food 'LA Burgers'

Just reading this has made me feel a bit funny. Definitely not a gristle lover here. Even the thought makes me feel queasy. Didn't realise so many people were a fan until reading this!

Or stray pubes, Cornetto, sorry couldn't resist that!

That’s pork scratching territory

Yup I do. Done it since I was a child , it's the best bit! Especially love chicken leg gristle and love sooking the fat out a lamb leg. Omg this is a bit embarrassing admitting this

Cornetto, think you're the first to mention the dreaded pork scratchings? It's the hairs that put me off them. And Little, don't ever admit to that in RL!

This is why I stopped eating sausages years ago, that lump of gristle between your teeth.... that was me done. Haven't touched them since (except vegetarian ones)

DH chews on bones, sucks the marrow out, chews cartilage and everything. The man is a beast.

Ah now, I am quite partial to a pork scratching. They're properly delicious

No problem with it.

I attribute this to growing up hungry. When you've finally been permitted to have a whole chicken drumstick instead of one wing, you don't tend to make a fuss that a bit of it is crunchy rather than squishy.

If you don't like the idea of crunching bones and shell don't go to Asia!

If the prawn is shelled (including if the tail is left on), the vein has already been removed, as it comes out when the head is pulled back.

Fat - well, I wouldn't say my ex was fussy mainly because he'd have lamped me one for it , but on the day I slow roasted a perfect shoulder of lamb, he went into the kitchen and picked out just the pure meat that was not touched by fat or collagen because 'fat is filth'. I walked back in to find somewhere in the region of 2lb of meat thrown in the dog's bowl.

This meant that the very expensive roast meal comprised roughly a teacup portion of meat between 4. Well, he got it and the rest of us went without.

< faints clean away >

Mintbiscuit OMG just the thought of that makes me heave!

If somebody can find tinned sardines with bones anymore, rather than poxy fillets, please let me know where, as it's a brilliant source of vitamin D and calcium for those of us who have osteomalacia and every supermarket I've been in for the last couple of years has only sold fillets of that and Mackerel.

I don't mind a bit of gristle but I wouldn't go out of my way to cut up a chicken for it! DH absolutely hates gristle and fat and is very fussy about meat in general to the point I no longer buy meat in my weekly shop and just tell him what meat we need for which days tea and he gets it so he knows he'll eat it.

He's been known to leave full meals uneaten at restaurants (and at home for that matter) if he's found fat or gristle, won't even send back and order something else because its put him off that much!

This thread is turning my stomach. I would absolutely not eat any kind of gristle, not to mention it's surely not very healthy!

This is my DH. He loves chicken knees and sits there happily chomping as the knees pop and crunch. It makes me feel a bit sick just thinking about it and I've had to ask him to to eat them after I've finished my dinner and had time to get away from the noise. He also eats chicken skin sandwiches, even when the skin is a bit flabby rather than crisp. Ugh.

Gristle, skin and bone marrow are gross! 🤢

This is making me gag.

MitziK, I've brought the 'proper' sardines in Tesco and Sainsbury.