Years ago someone made a comment that when I get done with chicken wings they look like fossils as the bones are completely cleaned. From then on I began noticing that most people don’t eat those bits.
Everyone is free to do as they like as some people don’t even like the skin (they’re missing out, too) but I’ve always thought the gristly bits were a great part of the meal and I’d eat my family’s if they didn’t.
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Upvote for definite unpopular opinion. I just threw up in my mouth a bit…
Always love the tasty, tender and savory marrow inside the ends but not the knobby plastic-y stuff around it
I strip chicken wings down to the bone like you. Fried chicken knee cartilage in Chinese cuisine is delicious.
I am a 3 all day long, I don’t care. I paid for them and I don’t like those parts that get left behind 😛
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Omg yesssss I love the cartilage bits on chicken bones!!!! Is tasty. Is crunch. Is best.
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Upvoting bc this is unpopular and wrong. Also my wife would agree 100% (she is also wrong)
You would love chicken feet then
Ew the hard balls of whatever are the reason I do not get meat from chipotle or qdoba. Literally ruins my day
Whatever the respones here, nutritionally you are correct. It’s part of what goes into bone broth to give it such healthful properties.
There’s levels to eating chicken. The weakest way is eating just the meat in the center then then tossing out a bunch of edible parts like you are a fat American at Buffalo Wild Wings.
The Proper way is to eat all the meat on the bone.
The advanced way is to eat the meat and boil the bones to make broth like people who make ramen.
The expert way is to put an entire drumstick in your mouth and pull out a clean bone like Riley Reid.
The elite way is to eat the entire thing, bone and all like my dog.
Bruh. Ugh, here is your upvote.
Best part. And the cartilage skewers they make in Japan? Heaven on Earth.
I remember growing up my dad did this and my mom being disgusted by it. For most of my young adulthood I also avoided eating that part. Then I met my wife and she loved eating that part so much so I gave it a try and it grew on me.
You would love braised chicken feet. They’re awesome.
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen an insane take here. Congrats on the up vote.
This is the kind of unpopular opinion I came to see! 🤢
We call it gristle and it’s delicious!
Gross
Amen!
EUGH! Awh, gross. Take my upvote
I just threw up in my mouth
Me too, bruh
This is a popular opinion with my dog. She loves the cartilage
Ewwwww 🤢
Cartilage then sucking the marrow out 🙂↕️ my kids and husband only eat the meat off the bone and I usually steal the rest
If you confit them it does break them down and they aren’t so gross and grissly and chewy. Most people don’t confit their wings though, and what you described neither did your family. I guess you might have been the evil twin that usually gets locked in the basement and fed fish heads, guess you escaped when younger to enjoy your sweet sweet gristle and connective tissue, enjoy the upvote for being very unpopular.
I wouldn’t say it’s one of the best parts but I don’t mind them and also eat the cartilage most of the time – sometimes I don’t feel like having that texture.
I like beef tendon in my pho, but chicken cartilage doesn’t do it for me
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are u black?
This is an unpopular opinion?? OP I upvoted because things are confusing on this sub, but I’m 100% with you on this one.
I eat it all because it doesn’t taste bad and is good for you
There are little shops in Japan that specialize in grilling up skewers of the chewy bits. One Japanese restaurant I cooked at we would deep fry squid cartilage, the bit surrounding the beak. It was pretty good but I can’t remember the name of it. We marinated it briefly in soy sauce and ginger juice, breaded in cornstarch, deep fry and a then little salt when it’s done. Served with a slice of lemon to squirt the juice over it. Man I miss that place…