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Chicken Pulley Bone
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:30 am
While driving home with the wife (nudes on Reddit r/BigDropper), she mentioned eating chicken as a kid and that her favorite part was the "pulley bone". By the sound of the word I was quick to understand she was talking about the wish bone but that's all I could surmise. She then began to explain how her family would cut this particular piece of chicken. Apparently it's a southern thing where the top portion of the breast, that contains the whole wishbone and the meat immediately surrounding it, is cut off. In my short time on this earth, I have never heard of the pulley bone as a piece of chicken. Have any of you out in F&DB land ever heard of this cut before?
Below are three videos depicting how to extract the pulley from a whole chicken. Just watch the first minute or so.
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YouTube 2
YouTube 3
Below are three videos depicting how to extract the pulley from a whole chicken. Just watch the first minute or so.
YouTube 1
YouTube 2
YouTube 3
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:41 am to BigDropper
Never heard it called the pulley bone. I’ve heard people talk about it but never gave it a second thought.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:49 am to BigDropper
That’s what my grandparents called it and was a separate piece of the bird. I surmise that in lean times they cut more ,smaller, pieces of the chicken in order to serve more people.
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 9:50 am
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:24 am to BigDropper
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:24 am to BigDropper
My mom always cut out the pulley bone when frying a whole chicken.
Guess it’s called pulley bone because of the game you play with the bone... each person grabs an end and pulls till it breaks. The person with the larger piece “wins.”
Guess it’s called pulley bone because of the game you play with the bone... each person grabs an end and pulls till it breaks. The person with the larger piece “wins.”
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:37 am to Professor Dawghair
Life was real different just 60-70 years ago.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:53 am to DocHolliday1964
Doc Holliday:
Where are they from? I'm trying to see if the origin of this colloquialism is regional.
quote:
That’s what my grandparents called it
Where are they from? I'm trying to see if the origin of this colloquialism is regional.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:06 am to BigDropper
I grew up in the 60’s in far north central Louisiana. My sister and I played the “pulley game”. We also fought over who was going to get the round bone in fried steak for the marrow.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:56 am to rsb831
I've heard of it.
I always thought it was a way to split the breasts into three pieces instead of two, so you would have breast/pulley bone pieces about the same size as the thighs and those pieces that would take about the same amount of time to cook.
I always thought it was a way to split the breasts into three pieces instead of two, so you would have breast/pulley bone pieces about the same size as the thighs and those pieces that would take about the same amount of time to cook.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 12:23 pm to Professor Dawghair
Professor Dawghair:
That's exactly right. Is your mom from Georgia? My wife's family is in Georgia.
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Guess it’s called pulley bone because of the game you play with the bone
That's exactly right. Is your mom from Georgia? My wife's family is in Georgia.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 12:29 pm to BigDropper
Mom is from NW Louisiana. I grew up in central Ms. we always had a pulley bone to fight over. Every Saturday lunch.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 12:33 pm to BigDropper
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That's exactly right. Is your mom from Georgia? My wife's family is in Georgia.
Yes sir. Middle and South Georgia.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 2:42 pm to Professor Dawghair
My brother and I used to pull the wish bone when we were kids and he’d always try and hold it higher up to win and get the wish. Dick.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 3:27 pm to BigDropper
Pulley bone is what my family called(s) it.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 3:51 pm to BigDropper
That was always my favorite piece, too. Being an only child meant that I never had to argue with anyone about who got the pulley bone. I did! I grew up in Northeast Mississippi. Edited to add that as late as the 1990s some grocery stores up there sold pulley bones by the pound, already cut and ready to cook.
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 4:02 pm to BigDropper
Ive only heard it called a wishbone
Posted on 7/17/22 at 4:21 pm to TomballTiger
Grew up in North MS. Mom cut up a whole chicken for frying. Always had a pulley bone piece. The locally owned store I shop now has 3 or 4 butchers working during the day. They cut up chickens and it's labeled as whole chicken cut country style. Depending upon which butcher cut up the chicken. It may or may not have a pulley bone piece.
I cut up my own chickens and I sometimes cut it with a pulley bone piece if the chicken is big and I don't want two huge breast pieces.
I cut up my own chickens and I sometimes cut it with a pulley bone piece if the chicken is big and I don't want two huge breast pieces.
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 4:33 pm to BigDropper
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Where are they from? I'm trying to see if the origin of this colloquialism is regional.
One set from East Feliciana Parish other set from hills of north MS. Both called it that
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 6:14 pm to BigDropper
Grew up in upstate SC and always heard it called a pulley bone
Posted on 7/17/22 at 7:43 pm to BigDropper
South Louisiana. I’ve heard of the pulley bone, but we called it the wishbone. I don’t recall a separate chicken piece, but 
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