In human foods, bones have long been a staple for making ingredients like soup stock and gelatin; however, people don’t often eat bones directly. Rather, any bone that lands on our plates as a function of eating a steak, drumstick or chop often ends up being discarded or shared with the family pets.
While we are squeamish about such fare, few of our pets can resist the rich taste of the scant bits of meat and sinew clinging to the bone or the savory marrow inside. This is nothing new to the family dinner scene; this sort of behavior has been happening for the past 10,000 to 12,000 years.
