We Really DO Eat the Bones!
I was getting new shocks for my farm truck, sitting in the waiting room, when a commercial came across the television. The scene: three friends wolfing down chicken during their lunch break. One guy e
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Not too many generations ago, pretty much everyone chewed on the bones to get the nutritious marrow out, at the very least. And many cooks still cut the bones into pieces before making soup to get the marrow out.
We feed the heads and feet from our pastured poultry to our guard dogs. They love them!
I appreciate your essay on eating the bones. In the future you might consider how much Americans spend on Calcium/magnesium/glucosamine supplements.
We buy too many Costco rotisserie chickens, but understand that the most nutritionally-dense part is the soup we make from the carcass.