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.

What is wierd is that my youngest charge will turn her nose up at a lovely piece of fish but if I give her the whole fish, eyeballs, tail and all, she will devour it

Someguy are you sure? I once saw some outdoorsy type telly programme where a native american hunter took the presenter to catch a deer, then cut it open and told him the stomach contents were a prized delicacy. So the presenter bravely ate a bit whereupon the hunter pissed himself laughing that he'd fallen for it. It's a made-up myth methinks.

Had a similar conversation with DH last night- his mother NEVER served them meat on the bone, or anything that had a smidge of fat, gristle, etc.. on it. Or skin. Don't get me started on crispy chicken skin!

He wouldn't know what to do with a pork chop.

He's getting better with things like roast chicken quarters or thighs (or drumsticks!) but anything like that in a stew gets sniffed and picked at like you wouldn't believe! Drives me up the wall.

I totally blame MIL. DD will be served all this as soon as she's able.

Our chicken drumsticks are still outside pecking away!! Ready in a month or so!

you can cook for my 4yo instead. He is obsessed by bones. Licks them clean and proudly announces 'I ate all the BONES' We took him to hard rock cafe and he ordered some sort of chicken drumsticks in bbq sauce, and he was in heaven. bbq sauce everywhere, but lovely pristine clean bones on his plate.

Quite envious of grow your own chicken drumsticks! I'm limited to veg!

if you cook meat properly it will fall off the bone in anay case. It isn't slow and laborious and it isn't a hassle to fish out the bones. When I make stews the bones are floating around devoid of meat by the time I serve it and I do jsut fish them out.

Chops, I have to be careful or the drumsticks eat the home-grown veg!

I don't eat chicken or any other type of meat on the bone. It's actually a real phobia I have- the sight of bones makes me feel really ill, although recently I have been forcing myself to roast whole chickens and get dh to carve it then dispose of the carcass.

I'm generally quite squeamish anyway but as a teenager I was eating a meal with my mum who choked on a fish bone and was really distressed, going blue and I was convinced she was going to die. Thankfully it came out (eventually) but it freaked me out. I can't/ won't let my dc eat fish unless its well filleted, and I can't touch it at all.

I don't actually eat much meat- mainly chicken, some minced beef on occasion and sausages. In my case, it's not to be picky or fussy, it's a genuine issue I have.

Are there any rules/laws about killing your own chickens?

I won't tell if you don't

My ds wouldn't eat a chicken drumstick, he doesn't like brown bits either, nor would you be able to get him to dunk it in tomato sauce as guess what he doesn't like that either.

My dd on the other hand would eat the lot and probably like seconds.

I have brought them up both the same.

I love a chicken drumstick personally, so does my ds.

Did yuo know the Victorians called them drumsticks as they thought chicken leg was too vulgar?

I love meat on the bone it's far tastier, my DH hates it gets it from his dad. My DD is a very fussy eater but she loves chicken legs in fact if I roast a chicken she wont eat the breast only the leg. She also loves chicken skin and crackling off the roast pork!

Someguy you're only supposed to eat them yourself (or family I think)

and also the usual duty of care ones

actually may be wrong on first point but we eat all ours anyway

My DH won't eat any meat on the bone - chicken legs, ribs, chops etc. PAIN IN THE ARSE. Esp as he happily eats sausage rolls which are basically made of arsehole and eyelid so he is hardly a meat connoisseur.

My DCs have never had chicken on the bone. I think they would be very surprised if anyone offered them to them. I've never thought of them as everyday food at all. I would expect most little children to eat fish fingers, cottage pie, chips, baked beans and toast but if I was offering anything other than that I'd check in advance.

But my children won't eat cottage pie or baked beans yet would gnaw at bones all day if they could.

Personally I don't think children need special kiddie food. But that's just my opinion.

This thread is making me hungry for spare ribs in Peking sauce...

This reminds me I have not eaten the following since I left the uk:

Whole roast marinaded chicken

Chicken drumsticks marinated in sweet chilli sauce
Chicken drumsticks marinated in Thai lime, coconut and coriander

Fresh Coriander

Hoi Sin Duck

Duck A l'Orange

Tuna steaks

Boy, I loved to cook

DAMN YOU COLDITZ!!! Why did you have to go and start a thread about CHICKEN!

God, this drives me mad, too. Meat has bones in it! It's normal! DH is really wussy about any meat with bones or skin. DD (3) and I just sit there cracking the bones to suck the marrow out and laughing at him. Her favourite thing of all is crisp chicken skin or the fat off a lamb chop if it's fried until lovely and brown and savoury. I honestly don't think a piece of meat with a bone in is too much to cope with for a child over the age of about 9 months. Chicken drumsticks are surely completely normal average child-friendly food?

People don't like to be reminded that their meat is actually dead animal (or bird)

my son 2 and half yrs old loves chicken drumsticks. I have to supervise as he likes to eat all the stringy rubbery bits! I have never had a problem with meat on the bone, prob why my little one eats well. There is more iron to be had on a drumstick than on a chicken breast, the darker the meat the better. I like to teach my son where food comes from and I don't feed him processed stuff, don't see the point.

My partner, 32yrs, wont eat meat off the bone, he is so fussy, can be difficult as we eat seperate meals, but I know my son wont turn out like his daddy thanks to me.