I used to chew on all the bones too. Before I became VEGAN FOr NEARLY 30 Years, I remember someone said to me "I don't have to tell you there are children starving in Africa". I didn't like meat back then, unless it had a bone in it. Thinking back, although I didn't like meat, I did like bones. I found the marrow, tendons, gristle, and cartilage to be nice to chew on and swallow bits. I chewed open whatever bones I could, like chicken. I chewed on fish bones (and fish skin). I don't think I was like a caveman, more like a skinny canine that somehow disliked the meat every single dinner and lunch. I did like sweetbreads when I tried them as a child, I liked them a lot. I (accidentally) frustrated my parents to no end maybe, them buying good meat, me not really enjoying it and going gaga over the bones. I had never had the opportunity for raw bones back then.
Thirst for minerals? Need for connective tissue?
It does feel like mineral deficiencies or addictive/psychological. But if it was mineral deficiencies, you would crave on different other foods also unless the bones contain some unique stuff that simple foods don´t have. Clacium ?
I certainly couldn't have cracked the rock hard white parts of the lamb bone I was eating this morning with my teeth. (Although once I got the cartilage off the ends, I could gnaw some way into the porous red bone underneath. Eventually I gave up, and later on I gave it to my sister's dog.)
Hehe, I thought you were eating the whole bone with your teeth. My imagination of cracking the teeth not the bone was right.
unfortunately, there's no marrow or spinal stuff in the middle. it's just bone. the fat around the muscle is good though
What about those foods containing bone marrow. I read up from the google about people ordering bone marrow which and they will be served with the bone filled with liquid bone marrow.
I read about Aajonus eating one stick of butter with a banana 4-8 times a day after strong mushroom poisoning which destroyed his liver. I wonder why was he doing it. Does it have some kind of healing benefits (I mean the banana and butter combination). I tried it also and ate 100g butter with a banana. Well, if it doesn't have any healing benefits, it tasted damn good! Next day I mixed the banana with butter and ate it. It really is a treat! Next time I will mix it and try putting it into the fridge. I wonder if it takes the hardened shape.
Heh, it's far away from zero carb but I will try not to make it into a habit
It's funny how my mother caught me munching on butter today. I was eating the butter and my other said "Please don't eat it, your cheeks have grown so big already" (I have been doing paleo for ~2 weeks) . I wonder if it's psychological and my mother is just imaging it as my cheeks have not grown bigger but the face lines have become more sharper.
