re: Who eats chicken bones?

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My grandma snaps them and sucks out the marrow, she's the only person I've ever met that does that and I always found it nasty

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My Dad did that. He grew up very poor and would every single bit of a piece of chicken - skin, fat, even grisle... Nothing left but cleaned bones and cartilage.
Sucking the marrow was a way to get extra calcium and vitamins.
I still feel a little guilty when I put so much of the chicken in my dog's food because I don't consider it fit to eat; and it would have been "good-eating" to my Dad when he was a big...