This hit me recently when I got wings and realized that it’s literally the leg of a chicken. A chicken’s leg. I look at my cat, he’s almost that same leg, looked down at my own calves and quads and felt nauseous almost immediately.
Like the whole drums versus flats vs thigh debate is just debating which body part is best. It’s wild to me and I’m seriously astounded no one thinks about it
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Just so you’re aware, even if the meat isn’t on the bone it still came from an animal.
100% correct. I will not eat meat with the bones left in.
Lots of people do think about it. This is the basis for vegetarianism and veganism, or at the very least reducing your meat consumption.
While I won’t outright refuse to eat a chicken leg, I have often thought the same thing myself and prefer boneless if I have a choice.
So your vegetarian now?
Ripping flesh from bone is one of the greatest sensations a human can have. It’s primal. You’re a baby.
Would you prefer to eat the breast, or thigh meat stripped from the bone? Or meat ground in a grinder? It’s all meat.
Nah, all the best meats are right on the bone, chicken, ribs, t-bone, pork chops.
That happened to me… For like, 6 seconds
I like that it reminds me it was once alive. Just knowing that it suffered and died makes it taste better to me.
bo hoo hoo, are you gonna go vegan on us next?
A chicken’s wing… is its leg? Let’s think just a little more about that.
Look, being a meat eater is gross if you think too hard about it, bones or no. You’re eating an animal’s muscles. And they’re delicious.
(EDIT: If you want to tell me a chicken wing is its arm, I can nearly get on board.)
Also:
>This hit me recently when I got wings and realized that it’s literally the leg of a chicken.
Seriously????
I prefer meat.on the bone tbh
This reminds me of a quote from Archer:
“You think that meat comes from the supermercado, all wrapped in nice plastic wrap.”
“Yeah, you’re describing meat.”
I feel this so hard. I don’t eat meat and I don’t share meals with people eating meat to save myself from this sight. I work at a non-profit fighting the worst practices in factory farming, and I look at a lot of animal cruelty footage as part of my job. There’s no way I’m going to sit around watching people dig into dead animals when I’ve seen what they go through during their short and brutal lives.
If you’re willing to eat meat then I don’t see why being reminded it was a living thing should matter. You’re always aware of that. But if you feel strongly about this you should read up on veganism. Folks do think about this stuff, some very strongly.
It looks like what it is???? No way op
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wait till this guy learns steaks are just different muscle groups within a cow!
Agreed but it’s a texture thing for me. Dino nuggies for life
We think about it. It’s how our species survived and thrived. Society creates an insulating layer for people like you to not have to think about how we survive, but effectively everything you’ve ever eaten is killing something. I’m not a hunter and hope I never have to kill, skin, cook, and eat an animal, but I respect the reality that we live in and that I am insulated from these tasks because I have other skills that have value in a society where other people are providing literally every bite of food that keeps me alive.
I mean yeah what did you think it was? Are you really that disconnected from where your food comes from?
Have you ever processed any meat in your life? Or you buy take out your whole life?
Uhm, I was about five years old when I realized it? Have you never seen a living chicken, or at least a whole chicken in the grocery store?
What really got me was realizing that every 2 wings I ate was one living bird that wanted to live.
“when you’re eating eggs and realize you’re eating eggs” ahh post
That’s what makes it delicious
Wait till you figure out where do ribs come from
Perhaps you aren’t ready to eat meat.
I only eat boneless skinless chicken thighs, I don’t like to deal with skin or bone
I agree that meat on the bone is gross, but for me its a texture thing (mainly with poultry)
I actually prefer sausage and other processed meats. Some hooves, lips and a pig dick? Give me two.
Nothing else to worry about?
If you don’t like the fact that meat comes from animals, then you should probably stop eating meat rather than trying to obscure the reality of its origin.
This is a problem of people being way too disconnected from their food.
I think people don’t like eating bone-in because it forces them to confront the fact that they’re eating part of a well-seasoned animal carcass. Boneless stuff suspends belief much better.
Its nice being at the top of the food chain.
This was the exact point I became vegan when I got my first pet, if I can’t eat them why can I eat a chicken / cow / sheep?
It doesnt bother me
All meat comes from bones.
plants know when youre eating them too.
How long did it take you to realise this?
My wife doesn’t like to eat meat too close to a bone because she thinks it looks gross. So I can sorta understand maybe?
Of course it would be been nice to get meat not killing any animals but we don’t have that option and meat is irreplaceable cause it has unique proteins that we need, thus we have to admit that we have to eat meat and if we do it, why not to talk about what is the better part and how to make it good? We’re all animals and animals eat animals this is nature. We’re on top of food chain so we have to take it. Honestly if cats were herbivores we would be eaten them too! We don’t eat carnivore animals cause it inefficient. Anyway your attitude to something is your choice and you make your choices cause you decide it’ll be better for you. Like vegetarians for example, they sacriface food pleasures to feel thesmselfs better so this is all about trade.
Upvote for being an unpopular opinion. My wife prefers meat that isn’t on a bone because she finds it messy but she’ll eat it. Growing up as a hunter/farm kid gives me a different perspective.
> I got wings and realized that it’s literally the leg of a chicken
… I think should ask your school for your money back.
Are you 8
I eat meat because I can buy it. If I had to slaughter a chicken for that meat I probably wouldn’t eat it.
Is this your first introspective moment?
r/self.
gtfo.
You can eat chicken hearts, or gizzards 😂
Have you considered your too used to meat not being on the bone so you don’t think of it.
I regularly chop up chickens and it’s cool how it all works. Stay connected to food.
Drummets and flats are both from the wing not the leg. You can buy them still connected to each other.
The Drumstick is the leg.
And yes, different body parts taste different, have different shapes and nutritional values.
It’s fun to watch people have that realization. We are so disconnected as a society from where out food comes from that the idea that your meat was once alive is just a full shock to so many people.
Even your hamburger was alive and mooing once, despite being off a bone.
It’s chicken, not a chicken
So… are you now vegan?
Ron swanson was right. Meet your meat
Everyone thinks about it. Very few people care, at least not enough that they’re the to change their habits.
This is just one of many realizations people go through during life. Like seeing the moon as orb rather than flat; like feeling the call of the void; the realization that even a spider has a whole world in it’s perspective; or feeling how the wind is just air being air moved around by electricity over the whole world. Congratulations on the realization. Now lets see if it makes you vegan or not. For me, it just felt primal and made me a part a nature
>I got wings and realized that it’s literally the leg of a chicken.
I’m not sure even a 12th generation homeschooled kid could come to this conclusion.
Its definitely unsettling to look at my dog and see a cut of meat that I could recognize from a store.
Supermarket butchers have desensitized ppl and made them forget that their meat comes from a living beings death. Appreciate your food more
My grandpa was a butcher. The closer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
Wing. It’s the wing of a chicken.
You’re just trying to pretend you’re not eating an animal.
I think everyone who eats chicken should be forced to kill and dress one.
…what? Have you never eaten a chicken’s actual leg, which isn’t its wing? Have you never had the opportunity to hold a fried chicken leg in your hand and eat the meat off of the bone? You are shocked that meat comes from animals? Is this your first time as human? Are you an ancient dryad living off of the forest who has turned into an omnivore, a human, for the first time? What is this opinion?
Bone on the meat on the other hand…
I learned that the meat we eat is from animals when I was 5. I didn’t give a fuck!
Not really, if you can’t face the reality of eating an animal perhaps vegetarianism is the best option for you.
I’m proud of you for this realization. I urge you to keep going down this path. You’ll realize how truly horrific animal agriculture is, and what you’re truly consuming when you eat meat will turn your stomach.
Most animals have roughly equivalent skeletons.
Ribs mmmmmm
I’m going for a succulent and juicy experience. Bone in for me. I guess if you think a leg is a wing you aren’t going to be on that level.
Don’t eat meat then, you should have enough respect for the animal you’re eating to face what the reality of it is imo.
“I got wings and realized that is literally the leg of the chicken” is so funny lol
my wife is the same way, more chicken wings for me…
At Thanksgiving, we all huddle around the cooked corpse of a turkey and slice into it and pass it around. I’ve always thought of how that’s normal to us. I still enjoy a good turkey leg even though I’m literally holding the leg bone of a dead animal while consuming it’s flesh.
But we don’t actively think about it like that otherwise we would all go insane. I’m just wired like you where I see things for what they are and how odd it is.
Like we goto a place with packaged animal flesh, dead fish, dead shrimp, and even live lobsters that we then kill when we get home to cool them. But it normal to our brains to do this. And for the turkey, we leave the frozen body of the uncooked bird in our freezer until the day comes to cook it. So it’s a feather plucked and headless corpse of a turkey.
But I get why vegetarians/vegans exist and I’d wager they think of this horrifying thought too any time they see someone eating a chicken wing or a drumstick.
Nah bro, you’re alone on this one. I specifically look for specific parts cause I know they’re tastier. If I had to kill my own I’d probably pick the best parts first ya know?
It’s food first. Once it’s dead ya know.
Counterpoint: its literally the best part. But if it grosses you out then you shouldn’t be eating meat. You are still participating in the meat industrial complex than is killing animals whether you are gnawing on a bone or eating a multi processed dino nuggets. So think about that
Bro, you lost me at calling a wing, a leg. ITS A WING… You can buy chicken feet. Claw and all
A wing is more like an arm than a leg. The drumstick is the lower leg.
Kids should learn how to raise and butcher chickens in school. It would give them a better idea of where their food comes from.
Understanding your own body is one of the most empowering things you can do—and there’s no better way to do that than by feeding it what it was designed to eat. Ruminant meat, in particular, delivers the most complete amino acid, fatty acid, vitamin, and mineral profile available. Nothing even comes close. Particularly when the animals are raised in a natural environment with the foods they would naturally eat. Not a factory.
Eating meat isn’t just about fueling your body—it’s about shaping it. Chewing real food off the bone actively strengthens your jaw, conditions the ligaments around your teeth, and helps maintain natural alignment. Contrast that with the modern soft, processed diet that leaves kids with crowded teeth and adults with chronic metabolic dysfunction.
Soft Foods, Soft Bodies, Sick Minds
Processed carbohydrates, especially refined sugars, wreck everything early. Cavities, orthodontics, blood sugar roller coasters. Fast forward a few decades, and it’s full-blown metabolic collapse: diabetes, obesity, dementia, degenerative disease. All avoidable, but only if you’re willing to reject the standard diet most people blindly follow.
Predator Eyes, Predator Fuel
You’re a forward-facing predator, not a grazer. Your eyes didn’t end up in the front of your skull by accident—they’re there to target, hunt, and survive. Just like lions. Just like wolves. Exceptions like sharks and crocs prove the rule: different environment, same outcome—maximum efficiency in pursuit of prey.
So yes, the meat is on the bone. And yes, it’s supposed to be torn off, not spoon-fed.
The wing is the leg?
They have programs where you can learn to slaughter, defeather, disassemble and cook your own chicken. You might want to look into it. You are far too removed from what’s on your plate.
Dude… milk comes from a cow’s… BOOB! I know. It’s crazy.
How are you this disconnected from your food
I have never in m y life eaten meat with a bone in it. I have always found it so gross. (I’m 99.9% plant based now, but even when I was a kid, I was too grossed out)
You hate meat on the bone because it belonged to a living animal.
I hate meat on the bone because it’s too hard to eat all of it.
We are not the same
Wait until he learns about cannibalism
The good news is, you can join the millions of us who choose not to eat the flesh of any animal for myriad reasons including the revulsion you describe. You will be happier AND healthier for it.
If you ever hunt you end up really putting 2 and 2 together. Given I’ve only ever eaten herbivores which are a bit different than us omnivores and our short guts, but it’s an interesting take and makes you really confront the gravity of eating meat
Go vegan, you don’t have to deal with gross stuff like that
OP, you should be a vegetarian.
Boneless meat comes from the same animals.
I’m perfectly aware when I order a steak, burger, wings, taco’s, kebabs, anything with meat that I am eating an animal. Such is the circle of life. Just because I personally didn’t behead, pluck, clean, and cook the chicken myself doesn’t mean a chicken didn’t die for me to eat its meat.
Wings are literally NOT legs….they’re wings. So maybe the unpopular opinion is that you think wings are legs?
You’re eating the flesh of an animal, it’s all “from a bone.” The flesh of a plant really isn’t that much less gross either, some animals eat animals, some animals eat plants, some animals eat both.
Sounds like you’re slowly undoing the disconnect from the lifetime of brainwashing from the animal cruelty industries. I hope you’ll align your actions with your morals one day and go vegan!
Just wait until they learn where milk comes from.
>It’s wild to me and I’m seriously astounded no one thinks about it
No, you don’t think about it.
I’ve never understood this perspective, personally. I guess I could, but I don’t eat meat without considering where it comes from. I have seen a few animals I had previously seen very much alive slaughtered (thankfully, I didn’t actually have to watch them get killed as a kid). That is what meat is, after all. I think if I wouldn’t be willing to hunt or fish then I shouldn’t eat it.
Apparently I have a ton of unpopular options I love this sub
I attended a series of cadaver classes in school. After the first one I called my mother (who’s a nurse) and said “We’re all just pot roasts walking around in suits.”
I think it’s funny that my forearm is basically a big ol chicken wing (the flatties I mean)
Unless you’re consuming meat grown in a lab all meat was once “on the bone”…