Wife won't eat meat on the bone.
My wife won't any meat that still has a bone attatched, ribs, chicken, bone-in steak, etc....Does anybody else have to live with this?
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46 Comments:
Everyone has food quirks.
dbcurrie at 6:09PM on 02/19/09
my best friend won't either. ugh! drives me crazy!!!! yet, love the guy anyway...though my wife and I must prepare meals to account for that when is in town.
southeasterneater at 6:35PM on 02/19/09
I used to. I accommodated by carving up chicken, bone-in steaks, etc. for him, and just ate the bony parts myself (which I happen to love).
After awhile, that was one of many issues that made me realize we weren't that compatible.
hungryinhouston at 6:54PM on 02/19/09
you know what they say, the closer to the bone - the sweeter the meat!
not me, i love the bones of everything.... that's where all the flavor is.
pooch at 6:56PM on 02/19/09
My mom is like, so we get sneaky and simply cut it off for her. I know it's not the flavor, just the looks, so if she doesn't see it, she never complains about all the juicy goodness!
Though I'm the first to admit, I don't care for my food touching. I won't not eat it if it does, just a preference.
bobcatsteph3 at 6:57PM on 02/19/09
When I was a kid I had the same problem with chicken. What solved it for me was my mother cut the meat off the bone before serving it to me as well. Others meats I love it bone in, half the fun is gnawing on it lol.
pjracz10 at 7:34PM on 02/19/09
My best friend's dad is like that, and to a certain extent her husband too. It has gotten to where even though the women in the family love meat on the bone, they buy it without to save fussing, though on special occasions they just buy the guys the cuts they like and themselves the bone-in cuts they prefer.
The dad WILL eat beef/pork on a bone IF he has time to pick it completely apart to remove the bone and every scrap of fat/skin/gristle etc. which often takes half an hour so his dinner is cold and everyone else is done eating. He will NOT eat poultry on a bone and will skip the meat entirely in that case if no one takes some off for him.
The husband goes so far as to make himself an entirely different dinner on many nights whether it is a bone issue or just a dislike...now that I could not handle.
What is funny though is that even though it is loads cheaper to buy meat with the bone (well, chicken in particular) and then remove the bones if you like (plus they could have bones, and the hubby's none) they splurge and buy it all boneless and not a one of the family likes to mess with raw meat that much.
I no longer eat red meats or pork so I think I could deal with a bone issue in a mate if he also was not a big meat eater, but overall I think it is an odd food issue to LOVE meat but not want to touch bones and fat and such...it was part of the animals after all, and natural. (Don't get me wrong, I loooooove most meat and could gnaw on the bones for hours...I just don't anymore.) Part of the sanitization of our foods and people not having to really think about where they come from and how they got there.
sadiepix at 7:43PM on 02/19/09
My husband hates meat on the bone unless it is falling off and takes no work for him to remove it. It's annoying - all the chicken he'll let me buy is boneless skinless chicken breast. But hey, I throw my towels on the floor, so we're even.
sorahatch at 9:22PM on 02/19/09
Bones give meat foods heft and succulence. Without them, meat is just a convenient paste formed into patties of various hefts (ah, sirloin steak!) and chewiness (ahh, rubber chicken!) . A piece of meat on the bone tastes better and those of us who love to cook recognize that fact and do our finest work with something which has bones. Boneless things are, well, spineless and insipid, in structure as in taste.
fewteeth at 11:09PM on 02/19/09
She apparently has to live with someone who puts peanut butter on their hamburgers and dips their Frito's in vanilla ice cream. Everyone's got their food quirks, as dbcurrie notes, including ourselves.
I bet you've come up with ways around it!
ccbweb at 11:51PM on 02/19/09
I cook mostly bone in chops & steaks. I cut off the meat for my portion and give Sis or DH the bone to gnaw on. Nope, I don't like the bones.
Poultry, I go either way and debone before cooking (saving for stock) or cook on the bone.
Tenderloins are always boneless.
But there is nothing like pork ribs. And no way other than on the bone!
whoot at 12:18AM on 02/20/09
When I first read the title of this thread, my mind inexplicably went in a different direction........... Texie? A little help here?
izatryt at 9:32AM on 02/20/09
Yes, my boyfriend. Which is regrettable, since bone-in chicken is about 7x cheaper and tastier than boneless.
Like others, sometimes I just carve it off the bone and serve...none the wiser.
savecara at 9:45AM on 02/20/09
Did anyone else giggle like a teenage boy when they read the thread title? No? Just me? Ahem...well...then.
I grew up with parents from the 3rd world, to me, not only do you gnaw the bone, but the marrow is often the sweetest most delectable bit. I recently relented and did the 25 things meme on F/b and my #23 was the following:
23) I have an adventurous palate, and little patience for those who do not. I feel that if you are going to eat an animal, you should respect it and be willing to eat all of it, not just the sanitized boneless, skinless, tasteless meat globules that come wrapped in plastic in the supermarket. Besides, the yummiest parts are the often the ugliest and the cheapest. I can appreciate not being exposed to those bits, I have issues with people who refuse even to try new things.
That doesn't help your problem, I realize, but for me, it's both about succulence and respect for the animal who gave its life.
BananaMonkey at 9:58AM on 02/20/09
Thanks, iz, I thought that too.
Kerosena at 10:14AM on 02/20/09
maybe I just have a dirty mind, but did the "mary moon" song from Dumb & Dumber pop into anyone else's head? :P
joyyy at 10:38AM on 02/20/09
@Kero ~ You know I can't help myself!
@joyy ~ LOL! You know it!!
izatryt at 10:48AM on 02/20/09
My boyfriend can't understand why I'll eat boneless buffalo wings but not regular wings. I just think it's too much work and I'd rather have a full piece of chicken....I will eat bigger pieces of chicken or steak off the bone though. I find this post amusing!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 12:48PM on 02/20/09
Yes!! My husband is a boneophobe, and it drives me nuts, because boneless breast of chicken, or boneless pork chops are so much more expensive. So of course, I buy the cheaper cuts of meat and have to debone them myself, thus adding an extra step (I'm a full-time-working-mother-of-two) and I find myself getting quite annoyed at him. What I've started doing recently is just cooking the chicken or pork bone-in (I think it's better flavor, anyway) and then when I serve his portion, I put it off the bone for him. Of course, then I find myself cutting his meat up for him in bite-sized portions, just like I do for my kids...I've done that a few times, and not even realized I was doing it. I hand him is plate of bite-sized bits and he looks at me like I'm crazy. :o)
juliebugsmama at 2:27PM on 02/20/09
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Got your back Izzy!
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 2:50PM on 02/20/09
@juliebugsmama - sounds like you need to make him start cooking!
joyyy at 3:14PM on 02/20/09
I have an issue with this with any girl I date. Instead of doing my lecture, I just make something tasty so the flavour makes em forget it.lol ANyway you cant win with some folks. There are only so much of us who realize the best meat is near the bones. This is why I LOVE Ox tails!
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/rishi/
rangerram at 3:37PM on 02/20/09
I'm with bananamonkey on this one.
I think an aversion to bone in meat is just another sign of people getting too squeamish about food and being out of touch with where food comes from.
I just don't really understand what the hang up is.
Meat doesn't naturally occur growing out of a styrofoam plate void of most reminders that it ever was a living organism.
fuuchan at 3:51PM on 02/20/09
Thanks Texie ~ Some days I need all the help I can get.
izatryt at 4:20PM on 02/20/09
Speaking of bones....
How's yours? ;)
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 5:50PM on 02/20/09
I still can't sit on anything hard.
izatryt at 6:16PM on 02/20/09
I just spit out my wine...
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 6:30PM on 02/20/09
Just doing my part for humanity.
izatryt at 6:33PM on 02/20/09
I wonder if DH would agree...
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 6:43PM on 02/20/09
He's in Syracuse.
izatryt at 6:44PM on 02/20/09
Did you wonder why he suddenly had to leave town?...
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 7:05PM on 02/20/09
He heard you were stopping by for a visit.
izatryt at 7:06PM on 02/20/09
I'm in Syracuse.
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 7:11PM on 02/20/09
Fabulous! Don't stay up too late. It's a school night.
izatryt at 7:15PM on 02/20/09
He may be a little tired when he gets home.
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 7:21PM on 02/20/09
Of course he will! It's a long drive.
izatryt at 7:24PM on 02/20/09
You don't know the half of it!
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 7:31PM on 02/20/09
I know the other half.
izatryt at 7:34PM on 02/20/09
Perhaps we should compare notes. ; )
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 7:56PM on 02/20/09
Sure! As soon as Alton leaves.
izatryt at 8:01PM on 02/20/09
Bitch.
Did I spell it right?
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 8:03PM on 02/20/09
tsk, tsk....you can give a dog a bone, but you can't make him eat.
Is that right?
hungryinhouston at 8:17PM on 02/20/09
Who are you calling a dog Houston!
izatryt at 8:40PM on 02/20/09
if the shoe -or anything else- fits....
hungryinhouston at 10:04PM on 02/20/09
Bitch!
izatryt at 10:16PM on 02/20/09
Okay, so is anyone still actually talking about this topic?
I have a serious aversion to meat on the bone... had a bad experience choking on a chicken bone when I was a kid, and haven't been able to eat a chicken wing or t-bone steak since.
So not everyone has an issue with being "squeamish about food and being out of touch with where food comes from" - sometimes it's a physiological response to a really, literally distasteful experience. Kinda hoped to find others who might be able to explain this aversion and all I get is people griping about how much it pisses THEM off in other people. Weird.
jkozdron at 1:48PM on 06/15/09