People who won't eat chicken on the bone are fucking infuriating

[colditz]

I've let the kid off because he's six and a treasured guest, and I've given him a lump of cheese instead, but deep inside I'm seething.

he wouldn't even taste it!

I think this is a hangover from days with the ex, who wouldn't eat it either, and used to make absurd statements about food to avoid eating my cooking (ie "I've gone off carrots" and "You know I prefer margarine!")

WHY won't people eat chicken on the bone? WHY?

Ps no children were offended in the making of this complaint.

'to be pull'

'to pull', I mean. Obviously.

bones in your dinner YUCK!

I don't mind the meat off the bone but i don't like eating it from the bone if that makes sense?!

People have very different ideas of 'normal' food.

I have never eaten chicken drumsticks. I don't eat meat but I ate it for 16 years and it wasn't something I came across.

We had roasts, mince, sausages, bacon, liver, stews so all pretty standard fare but we only ever had chicken roasted and the meat was therefore presented off the bone.

I get into a cold sweat and usually gag at meat on the bone. I have tried my best to cook a whole chicken and ended up being sick when it came to taking meat off the bone. Just a few days ago, my friend had to take the chicken and do it for me, despite my best intentions to actually do it myself.

On Economy Gastronomy on tv last night I saw someone taking the meat off the chicken and it made me sick.

I can eat meat that comes off the bone (if someone else took it off, but I cant touch the bones, even when wearing gloves.) I also have fainted at rare steak in the middle of a busy restaurant.

Would like to point out I was a veggie before pregnancy and only stopped under doctors advice. Im pretty much veggie again now, but dd loves her meat.

I get immense satisfaction from stripping a roast chicken carcass and boiling up the bones to make stock.

Chicken risotto for tea anyone?

I don't like drumsticks. It's those weird white bits you get which aren't meat and aren't bone, but yet they're not quite cartilage either (or are they?). Freak me out.

DS2 adores my very chickeny chicken gravy but won't eat the chicken. It drives me insane.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who wouldn't eat meat because it was on the bone. My DS won't eat chicken in any form, which is kind of irritating.

My DD loves gnawing on lamb bones when we have roast lamb. She is 2. I'm sure it's a natural instinct.

I think if you are prepared to have an animal put to death for your dinner you should be prepared to cook it appropriately (steak = rare) and damn well eat it all and be grateful!

I'm picky about meat - I didn't eat it at all for years until I had to medically restrict my diet in another way - and I hate chicken drumsticks, or in fact, any other meat where I have to disect it to eat it. I just want to slice and eat, not pick out fat, gristle, bone etc.

If someone else has done all the above, I'll eat it though

I think that all you 'on the bone' haters owe it to the animal who has died to provide your meal to eat every last damn bit, tendons and all

"I think if you are prepared to have an animal put to death for your dinner you should be prepared to cook it appropriately (steak = rare) and damn well eat it all and be grateful! "

My two DC love chicken, only problem is they only eat it if it's the breast off a whole chicken

I've bought chicken fillets and told them it WAS roast chicken,.....but no no no they make me go back into the oven to see the rest of the chicken that isn't there

I baked a whole trout the other day, and not only did my 5 year old not moan about the bones and head and stuff, he actually asked to eat the eyes ,and did!
I love that kid

argh, fussy eaters do my head in! I will accept medical (ACTUAL medical, not made up) or religious reasons for not eating something, anyone else is just doing it because they think they are more important than everybody else. I will kind of let little children off as little children get funny ideas about things for no apparent reason, but older children and adults need to sort themselves out!

Gawd I love southern fried chicken. On the bone. Greasier the better.

The dark meat near the bone is the tastiest. By far.

The breast meat is dull and boring. Tastes of nothing. Not even chicken.

I love blue steak, oysters, offal and all sorts, but I dislike food on the bone. If I was served it at someone's house I would eat it so as not to appear rude, but would prefer meat to be served without.

DP and DD are like bloody carnivores, they love things like ribs and chicken wings, they eat the tendons, skin, the lot, the maniacs. Going to Nando's with those two is like going to dinner with the Flintstones (I sit there and primly eat a salad).

They also devour the fatty bits off a pork chop, and the jelly from a pork pie

Vile pair.

sorry but the fatty bits ARE the best bits. They are savoured in most countries. They have most flavour and most nutrition.

I love all kinds of stews slow cooked with bones and root vegetables in, BUT my DH and now little DD absolutely won't go near them.

Oh, it's very frustrating, as I spend ages "tidying" up their plates, taking the bones out, before they even see them.

I love rabbit. No chance of that on our table.
But anykind of lamb's legbone, shoulder or chicken parts are perfect for a delicious stew.

I'm always boiling up bones for stock as well. Yummy!

I think brains are most prized in nature also SomeGuy - but then brain is mostly fat, and high in Omega 3, is it not?

Certainly my cat used to devour birds' and small mammals' heads before eating anything else (if at all).

I can deal with fish and meat on the bone, but it tends to slow me down quite a bit.
I then get really self-conscious that everyone else around the table had finished and is watching me pick away at my dinner. So, if at all possible I avoid bones.
However, if I came to your house and you had gone to the effort of cooking me a meal which happened to be on the bone, I wouldn't turn my nose up at it, I'd give it a good go.

I'm sure that if you go to Asia or wherever they don't turn their noses up at brains.

I was told that the partially digested contents of a cow's stomach, consumed fresh from slaughter, is delicious. Have yet to verify this.

SomeGuy that's tripe - really, I'm surprised anyone eats the contents of a stomach - if there's a freshly slaughtered bullock there, why eat the silage in one of his stomachs?

I know rabbits eat their poos: they only have one stomach, and have to eat the same thing again to have another go to break down the cellulose cell walls in the grass stalks!

I hate eating gibblets though, and offal, oh boak. Too rank.

There's a knack to getting meat off a bone, and it can make eating laborious and slow if you don't have it, or if the meat isn't cooked enough.

It's always a good idea to mention having more to drink if you feel everyone is looking at you piprabbit - that way everyone gets all faffy about water / wine and takes the focus off you .