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That’s not the way it works. After you eat the meat, you hold it under the table and your dad grabs the other leg. You all pull until it breaks. The person with the longer piece gets the bigger wish fulfilled.
When I was a kid, my sister and I used to break the wishbone for a good luck. As I got older, I left that up to my two younger siblings. While they were at it, I ate their chicken. Just kidding.
Yes. As a side note there’s a bar in Manhattan (at there was over 20 years ago. I haven’t been there in decades) that has a wire strung up over the bar with probably a hundred years worth of wishbones. It’s kinda gross because they’ve never been dusted so they are filthy.
Only turkey as mentioned above, but Sunday dinners are usually roast beef with mashed potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. When the occasional chicken dinner does happen, we don’t break the wishbone. It’s too small for my stubby fingers anyway.
From our turkey in the 60s I got yo keep that bone and put it on the back of a model pick up truck.
I made it into a tow truck, won 3rd place in model car show.
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Yes- but only the Thanksgiving turkey.
Indeed. My mother decided who got to break it.
Yes we did
Yes!
Did
The trick was you had to dry it out or it wouldn’t break
That’s not the way it works. After you eat the meat, you hold it under the table and your dad grabs the other leg. You all pull until it breaks. The person with the longer piece gets the bigger wish fulfilled.
Used to dry them on the sink and fight over who got to break them.
We always did. Fought over who was going to break it.
When I was a kid, my sister and I used to break the wishbone for a good luck. As I got older, I left that up to my two younger siblings. While they were at it, I ate their chicken. Just kidding.
Yes!
People still do that?
Yes and got mad when my wish didn’t come true lol
Yup every time we had chicken or turkey. My older sister always got to wish on it 🙄 golden child
My wife has a container full of them.
We still do!
I have 3 waiting for the nwxt time my kids ask…
Yes. Still do
We had corned beef or a roast, so no wish bones.
Mate if that worked I would have saved myself a world of pain.
Wasn’t good luck, it was a wish. The person with the larger bit was assured their wish would come true.
Any bird, not just Sunday.
Yes. Cheap entertainment.
Yep. My mom would buy whole chickens and cut them up. She left the part with the wishbone intact. We would (of course) argue over who got to pull.
Embarrassing fact: we called it the “pulley bone”.
Is this not a thing anymore?
That was only a Thanksgiving thing in my family.
Yes. As a side note there’s a bar in Manhattan (at there was over 20 years ago. I haven’t been there in decades) that has a wire strung up over the bar with probably a hundred years worth of wishbones. It’s kinda gross because they’ve never been dusted so they are filthy.
Yes chicken and turkey. It would sit in the window for a few days to dry out
Only turkey as mentioned above, but Sunday dinners are usually roast beef with mashed potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. When the occasional chicken dinner does happen, we don’t break the wishbone. It’s too small for my stubby fingers anyway.
From our turkey in the 60s I got yo keep that bone and put it on the back of a model pick up truck.
I made it into a tow truck, won 3rd place in model car show.
No. Because we never had that.
But we did with thanksgiving.
I remember there would be one on the windowsill above the kitchen sink drying in the sun.
Yup. Usually my sister and I. I always won because I figured out that you have to bend it up and not pull.
Wasn’t a Sunday thing, but every chicken there was a fight over which two of us would get to break it.
Still do.
Yes, but only Turkey each year.
Guilty, till I grew up
Still do!
Only at Thanksgiving. It was my mom and I who got to break it holding with our pinky fingers.
Yes. Anytime my mom fried chicken she’d set it aside to pull it after we were done.