comment: >
  
  Buddy broke out stats to talk about eating food. Maybe you aren’t cut out for just enjoying things.
context: "Meat-to-work" ratio is the best phrase! >
  
  I love steamed crabs (from Maryland) so I can appreciate a bad meat-to-work ratio if it’s really good meat, it can still be less quantity to work >
  
  Just said to myself, "This MF never picked a crab." >
  
  I applaud you for actually posting an unpopular opinion >
  
  He posted factually incorrect opinion since proper ribs easily fall off the bone to begin with and chicken isn't hard at all to eat off a bone. OP doesn't know how to cook or where to go for proper food. >
  
  Bones affect the moisture of the meat, they are left in for a good reason. When you cook boneless meat, you usually need some other way to maintain the moisture, which is why they tend to be cooked in a pan or deep-fried >
  
  Bones help the moister of the food while cooking. If the bones bother you then maybe try smoking rips from now on. A properly smoked rack will fall off the bone fairly easily. >
  
  Boil for 2 hours then coat in your favorite bbq sauce and throw em on the grill on high for 3-5 min per side to carmelize brushing on more bbq as needed. They come out perfect every time. >
  
  Mmm chicken water >
  
  Boiling would just help soften them up. When you grill them outright they’re typically really dry. >
  
  You're absolutely right. Tell you what, just give me all your messy, labour intensive ribs and wings, I'll take care of it for you :) >
  
  Labour intensive??? Bro, you that unathletic that eating your food is tiring??? Ripping some meat takes too much energy for it to be worth it? >
  
  Yeah this is just a really shit take. Might as well blend down your food into a smoothie since that’ll take the least effort to eat lmao >
  
  I really like bone foods, HOWEVER, I hate eating them at restaurants because of how messy they are. I barely ever order them at a restaurant because it feels embarrassing to make a mess of myself while trying to eat them. >
  
  What ribs are you eating that are labor intensive? Quality ribs, that were cooked right, should basically fall off the bone. >
  
  That was my first thought too lol. Chicken wings is a different story but good ribs should quite literally slip right off the bone >
  
  Your not cooking your ribs right if you are having to work for the meat. >
  
  First unpopular opinion I really read here. >
  
  I agree completely but eating ribs in the kitchen like a raccoon brings out a primal part of me from time to time, and doing that in front of friends is even more satisfying. >
  
  Wait until you try Crawdads >
  
  Chief. Labour intensive would be hunting the animal, killing it, butchering it, and then finally eating it. >
  
  And I think part of the appeal of bone in meat is that it is traditionally the only meat that existed. Get it while you can before were all eating protein synthesized from algae. >
  
  Man you must suck at eating lol. Do you need a training montage of eating these foods. Cause you literally just bite into it hell some ribs literally fall off the bone >
  
  Lmao imaging a training montage for eating ribs, with inspiring 80s rock sound track. Eye if the Tiger with footage of a tiger chewing on a carcass comes to mind. >
  
  The Meat of The Tiger. BUM....BUM BUM BUM >
  
  You ain't had good ones. School drumsticks are awful, but fried chicken is great, and wouldn't be that much better without the bone. Also, have you ever had ribs? If done right, they're so easy to eat >
  
  There is a relationship between how tough a cut of meat is and how flavourful it is. Muscle attached to the bone is often some of the hardest working muscles, is tough, and is therefore some of the most flavourful meat. If cooked well, often slowly at low temperatures to make it tender, they are among the best cuts of meat. >
  
  Is it the hardest working muscles that taste the best, or the most fat marbled? Honest question. >
  
  counterpoint: bones are handles. >
  
  I highly agree with this opinion. 
  However I take it a step further. I just hate eating off bones. I will not pick them up and chew on them. I'm very good at cutting the meat off now and usually end up giving my bones to other people since I just cut the meat off. My parents think it's great >
  
  "Alone in the kitchen like a racoon"
  I feel that deep in my own bones lol >
  
  Ribs are fine, wings are terrible? Kinda. >
  
  Ribs and chicken wings are among my favourites, i don't mind the mess and the "labour". >
  
  Depends honestly. I 100% prefer bone chicken because I eat pretty much every edible part of the bone too, but inedible bones like ribs, not so much >
  
  I disagree about the flavor experience- chicken breast meat is so much different than chicken wing meat. Fat is flavor. Now, deveining shrimp/deboning fish, that’s where the work is at- still worth it >
  
  I got your bone food, right here. Swingin.’ >
  
  Well enjoy your McRibs and Chicken Tendies, I'm going to go enjoy actual food from an animal. >
  
  Bone equals flavor. If you try wings or ribs from a place that does them right, they're so much tastier than boneless. Most people seem to go for quantity over quality though. Then you're just gnawing on gristle and bone with barely any meat. In my experience most people overcook the shit out of ribs and then slather them with a ton of BBQ sauce to make up for it. >
  
  Bones add no flavor, the only thing in a bone that would add any flavor is the marrow but that isn't coming out unless the bone is broken. >
  
  dude the nasty slimy bits that bone having meat has will ruin an entire meal for me. give me chicken tendies or give me death >
  
  I laugh when people brag about how they ate a whole rack of ribs. Yeah and? You didn't eat the bones too. There is so little meat, it's nothing. Same like eating crawfish. Oh you are 10 pounds, yeah, again you didn't eat the whole crawfish. The meat is just in the tail >
  
  Bro a rack is around 2 pounds and 70% of that by weight is meat >
  
  The meat to work ratio. Holy shit you really not ashamed to even think that? >
  
  Telling the world hes never cooked in his life >
  
  Some folks are so fucking lazy. It's crazy to me. Talking about too much work to chew your food. 
  Its incredible how far the human devolved into someone like OP.
  Sad really >
  
  Don't judge, it's just Maslow's hierarchy of needs...you can't care about this unless you have absolutely nothing else to worry about. >
  
  I smell a chicken nugget eater >
  
  So you enjoy meat, but you don’t appreciate that they come with.. bones? 
  Eat worms instead. What a waste of an animal death otherwise. 
  Like others say, bones near the meat is where it has most flavor. Continue eating chicken breasts and processed, boneless meat. >
  
  It's bc the meat closest to bone is the tenderest, juiciest, most flavor ful. >
  
  My husband thinks the same. But I love bone meat, all of it. It has more fat, fat is tasty >
  
  TIL humans have been eating "counter intuitively" for 100,000s years. >
  
  Hey OP, wrap some spare ribs in foil, throw them in the oven for at least two hours at 270. At that point you should be able to pull the bones out and make a sandwich out of that.  
  Stop complaining about nonsense and make tasty happen! >
  
  fake post is fake >
  
  You're high af. Boneless wings suck. Ribs are awesome. Truly unpopular opinion, well done mate. >
  
  Stick to baby food then! There is more to life that doing everything as efficiently as possible lmao >
  
  I agree with this post 100%
  BONELESS CHICKEN WINGS SUPREMACY!!! >
  
  We can blend em up and you can use a straw. Would that be easy enough for ya? >
  
  Chicken wings people eat because of the fatty skin - that's my guess >
  
  Chicken wings are an elaborate hot sauce delivery system and therefore are beyond reproach. >
  
  Crock pot ribs >
  
  Good ribs fall off the bone so there isn’t really any work involved. And chickens wings may be a little messy, but totally worth it. Crab legs are too much work. >
  
  Bones rule, thought this was gonna be about fishbones which could get stuck in your throat or some shit. Regardless, fishbones while dangerous are usually worth it. >
  
  b o n e f o o d s >
  
  For a second I thought you meant bone broth, and those are fighting words. >
  
  Oh, thank god, i thought you were speaking of roast marrow and we were gonna have an actual untenable unpopular opinion >
  
  Meat-to-work ratio? What? Do you shovel it in? >
  
  Every meat was a bone food at one point. Lol >
  
  You have a limited palette of taste buds if you think bone in and boneless foods are the same.
  And it sounds like you can't tell the different between white and dark meat in chicken. >
  
  Boneless beef short ribs >
  
  Thank you for posting something that'll really get people going. If it's not totally unpopular, it'll certain have some strong detractors. 
  One thing though, this statement right here:
  
  And even then the flavour experience can be recreated in any other cut of meat.
  
  ..is going to need some serious backup for me to believe it. You cannot make different cuts of meat taste just like each other. Boneless pork is not going to taste like pork ribs regardless of how you cook it. And if you tried to cut the rib meat off of the bone before cooking, good freaking luck. 
  Even skirt steak, which is a boneless beef cut that has very meaty flavor, does not taste like short ribs. >
  
  It's worth it in that it's not wasted and it tastes pretty good too. >
  
  Labor intensive? You used labor intensive to describe eating ribs? LMAO >
  
  I like to break the bones to get the stuff inside it tastes good >
  
  Deboning fish isn't a thing in China. The water boiled fish I had in Chengdu was absolutely worth spitting out large amounts of fish bones into a napkin. 11/10 would do again. (Also, meat cooked on the bone almost always tastes better.) >
  
  Cartilage  on the end is worth it. Which isn’t on baby backs so those aren’t >
  
  Ribs are delicious and easier to cook than any other cut of meat trying to mimic them. >
  
  The bigger problem with both of those foods is the mess, imo. I hate getting my hands all covered in sauce. Especially under the fingernails, ew. >
  
  true >
  
  This is absolute heresy.  Upvote for truly unpopular opinion here. BOO!!!!!!!!! >
  
  Bone in brings more flavor. You also sound like you have no clue how to cook or even where. Ribs fall off the bone to begin with when cooked right. Chicken is nit hard to eat either. Honestly just sounds like yet another education problem on here. >
  
  Idk where you buy your meat but my ribs always come big with lots of meat! Same with chicken wings. You ever notice how some people pick up and put down package after package of whatver meat they’re looking at? That’s us looking for some good shit lol >
  
  i agree theyre messy but ribs are so fucking good.
  i wouldn't order them out in public though.  i need a sink right after im done. >
  
  Pozole. >
  
  I understood where you were coming from until you said chicken wings >
  
  Guess you don't eat crab then. 10x worse than the foods you cited. >
  
  Did you ever try fish or seafood? >
  
  OP if you’re struggling to eat ribs you’re getting crappy ribs. Same with chicken wings. Those some of the best and easiest foods to chow down on. >
  
  Ribs are my favorite of the meats. This opinion is the craziest thing I've ever read on the internet in my entire life. >
  
  Where is the work in eating ribs? Or chicken wings? I mean ribs you just literally pull the bones apart. I will say IDK why people get so messy eating them. I use 4 fingers and thats it, you dont have to eat like a caveman lol >
  
  Buddy broke out stats to talk about eating food. Maybe you aren’t cut out for just enjoying things. >
  
  
  "And even then the flavor experience can be recreated....."
  
  No, it cannot. Bone-in meat gains additional flavor from the bone itself while cooking, and boneless meat will never be able to match that extra flavor.
  Also, if the meat on your ribs isn't falling off the bone with little resistance when you bite into it, then you have poorly cooked ribs. >
  
  Out of pocket my guy. Not only am I South African but I have gone hungry. The post was literally just about how I dislike it, there was no need to take it so damn seriously >
  
  Bet my left testified that OP never cooks any meat more adventurous than their chickie nuggies. >
  
  "Meat-to-work" ratio is the best phrase! >
  
  I love steamed crabs (from Maryland) so I can appreciate a bad meat-to-work ratio if it’s really good meat, it can still be less quantity to work >
  
  Just said to myself, "This MF never picked a crab." >
  
  I applaud you for actually posting an unpopular opinion >
  
  He posted factually incorrect opinion since proper ribs easily fall off the bone to begin with and chicken isn't hard at all to eat off a bone. OP doesn't know how to cook or where to go for proper food. >
  
  Bones affect the moisture of the meat, they are left in for a good reason. When you cook boneless meat, you usually need some other way to maintain the moisture, which is why they tend to be cooked in a pan or deep-fried >
  
  Bones help the moister of the food while cooking. If the bones bother you then maybe try smoking rips from now on. A properly smoked rack will fall off the bone fairly easily. >
  
  Boil for 2 hours then coat in your favorite bbq sauce and throw em on the grill on high for 3-5 min per side to carmelize brushing on more bbq as needed. They come out perfect every time. >
  
  Mmm chicken water >
  
  Boiling would just help soften them up. When you grill them outright they’re typically really dry. >
  
  You're absolutely right. Tell you what, just give me all your messy, labour intensive ribs and wings, I'll take care of it for you :) >
  
  Labour intensive??? Bro, you that unathletic that eating your food is tiring??? Ripping some meat takes too much energy for it to be worth it? >
  
  Yeah this is just a really shit take. Might as well blend down your food into a smoothie since that’ll take the least effort to eat lmao >
  
  I really like bone foods, HOWEVER, I hate eating them at restaurants because of how messy they are. I barely ever order them at a restaurant because it feels embarrassing to make a mess of myself while trying to eat them. >
  
  What ribs are you eating that are labor intensive? Quality ribs, that were cooked right, should basically fall off the bone. >
  
  That was my first thought too lol. Chicken wings is a different story but good ribs should quite literally slip right off the bone >
  
  Your not cooking your ribs right if you are having to work for the meat. >
  
  First unpopular opinion I really read here. >
  
  I agree completely but eating ribs in the kitchen like a raccoon brings out a primal part of me from time to time, and doing that in front of friends is even more satisfying. >
  
  Wait until you try Crawdads >
  
  Chief. Labour intensive would be hunting the animal, killing it, butchering it, and then finally eating it. >
  
  And I think part of the appeal of bone in meat is that it is traditionally the only meat that existed. Get it while you can before were all eating protein synthesized from algae. >
  
  Man you must suck at eating lol. Do you need a training montage of eating these foods. Cause you literally just bite into it hell some ribs literally fall off the bone >
  
  Lmao imaging a training montage for eating ribs, with inspiring 80s rock sound track. Eye if the Tiger with footage of a tiger chewing on a carcass comes to mind. >
  
  The Meat of The Tiger. BUM....BUM BUM BUM >
  
  You ain't had good ones. School drumsticks are awful, but fried chicken is great, and wouldn't be that much better without the bone. Also, have you ever had ribs? If done right, they're so easy to eat >
  
  There is a relationship between how tough a cut of meat is and how flavourful it is. Muscle attached to the bone is often some of the hardest working muscles, is tough, and is therefore some of the most flavourful meat. If cooked well, often slowly at low temperatures to make it tender, they are among the best cuts of meat. >
  
  Is it the hardest working muscles that taste the best, or the most fat marbled? Honest question. >
  
  counterpoint: bones are handles. >
  
  I highly agree with this opinion. 
  However I take it a step further. I just hate eating off bones. I will not pick them up and chew on them. I'm very good at cutting the meat off now and usually end up giving my bones to other people since I just cut the meat off. My parents think it's great >
  
  "Alone in the kitchen like a racoon"
  I feel that deep in my own bones lol >
  
  Ribs are fine, wings are terrible? Kinda. >
  
  Ribs and chicken wings are among my favourites, i don't mind the mess and the "labour". >
  
  Depends honestly. I 100% prefer bone chicken because I eat pretty much every edible part of the bone too, but inedible bones like ribs, not so much >
  
  I disagree about the flavor experience- chicken breast meat is so much different than chicken wing meat. Fat is flavor. Now, deveining shrimp/deboning fish, that’s where the work is at- still worth it >
  
  I got your bone food, right here. Swingin.’ >
  
  Well enjoy your McRibs and Chicken Tendies, I'm going to go enjoy actual food from an animal. >
  
  Bone equals flavor. If you try wings or ribs from a place that does them right, they're so much tastier than boneless. Most people seem to go for quantity over quality though. Then you're just gnawing on gristle and bone with barely any meat. In my experience most people overcook the shit out of ribs and then slather them with a ton of BBQ sauce to make up for it. >
  
  Bones add no flavor, the only thing in a bone that would add any flavor is the marrow but that isn't coming out unless the bone is broken. >
  
  dude the nasty slimy bits that bone having meat has will ruin an entire meal for me. give me chicken tendies or give me death >
  
  I laugh when people brag about how they ate a whole rack of ribs. Yeah and? You didn't eat the bones too. There is so little meat, it's nothing. Same like eating crawfish. Oh you are 10 pounds, yeah, again you didn't eat the whole crawfish. The meat is just in the tail >
  
  Bro a rack is around 2 pounds and 70% of that by weight is meat >
  
  The meat to work ratio. Holy shit you really not ashamed to even think that? >
  
  Telling the world hes never cooked in his life >
  
  Some folks are so fucking lazy. It's crazy to me. Talking about too much work to chew your food. 
  Its incredible how far the human devolved into someone like OP.
  Sad really >
  
  Don't judge, it's just Maslow's hierarchy of needs...you can't care about this unless you have absolutely nothing else to worry about. >
  
  I smell a chicken nugget eater >
  
  So you enjoy meat, but you don’t appreciate that they come with.. bones? 
  Eat worms instead. What a waste of an animal death otherwise. 
  Like others say, bones near the meat is where it has most flavor. Continue eating chicken breasts and processed, boneless meat. >
  
  It's bc the meat closest to bone is the tenderest, juiciest, most flavor ful. >
  
  My husband thinks the same. But I love bone meat, all of it. It has more fat, fat is tasty >
  
  TIL humans have been eating "counter intuitively" for 100,000s years. >
  
  Hey OP, wrap some spare ribs in foil, throw them in the oven for at least two hours at 270. At that point you should be able to pull the bones out and make a sandwich out of that.  
  Stop complaining about nonsense and make tasty happen! >
  
  fake post is fake >
  
  You're high af. Boneless wings suck. Ribs are awesome. Truly unpopular opinion, well done mate. >
  
  Stick to baby food then! There is more to life that doing everything as efficiently as possible lmao >
  
  I agree with this post 100%
  BONELESS CHICKEN WINGS SUPREMACY!!! >
  
  We can blend em up and you can use a straw. Would that be easy enough for ya? >
  
  Chicken wings people eat because of the fatty skin - that's my guess >
  
  Chicken wings are an elaborate hot sauce delivery system and therefore are beyond reproach. >
  
  Crock pot ribs >
  
  Good ribs fall off the bone so there isn’t really any work involved. And chickens wings may be a little messy, but totally worth it. Crab legs are too much work. >
  
  Bones rule, thought this was gonna be about fishbones which could get stuck in your throat or some shit. Regardless, fishbones while dangerous are usually worth it. >
  
  b o n e f o o d s >
  
  For a second I thought you meant bone broth, and those are fighting words. >
  
  Oh, thank god, i thought you were speaking of roast marrow and we were gonna have an actual untenable unpopular opinion >
  
  Meat-to-work ratio? What? Do you shovel it in? >
  
  Every meat was a bone food at one point. Lol >
  
  You have a limited palette of taste buds if you think bone in and boneless foods are the same.
  And it sounds like you can't tell the different between white and dark meat in chicken. >
  
  Boneless beef short ribs >
  
  Thank you for posting something that'll really get people going. If it's not totally unpopular, it'll certain have some strong detractors. 
  One thing though, this statement right here:
  
  And even then the flavour experience can be recreated in any other cut of meat.
  
  ..is going to need some serious backup for me to believe it. You cannot make different cuts of meat taste just like each other. Boneless pork is not going to taste like pork ribs regardless of how you cook it. And if you tried to cut the rib meat off of the bone before cooking, good freaking luck. 
  Even skirt steak, which is a boneless beef cut that has very meaty flavor, does not taste like short ribs. >
  
  It's worth it in that it's not wasted and it tastes pretty good too. >
  
  Labor intensive? You used labor intensive to describe eating ribs? LMAO >
  
  I like to break the bones to get the stuff inside it tastes good >
  
  Deboning fish isn't a thing in China. The water boiled fish I had in Chengdu was absolutely worth spitting out large amounts of fish bones into a napkin. 11/10 would do again. (Also, meat cooked on the bone almost always tastes better.) >
  
  Cartilage  on the end is worth it. Which isn’t on baby backs so those aren’t >
  
  Ribs are delicious and easier to cook than any other cut of meat trying to mimic them. >
  
  The bigger problem with both of those foods is the mess, imo. I hate getting my hands all covered in sauce. Especially under the fingernails, ew. >
  
  true >
  
  This is absolute heresy.  Upvote for truly unpopular opinion here. BOO!!!!!!!!! >
  
  Bone in brings more flavor. You also sound like you have no clue how to cook or even where. Ribs fall off the bone to begin with when cooked right. Chicken is nit hard to eat either. Honestly just sounds like yet another education problem on here. >
  
  Idk where you buy your meat but my ribs always come big with lots of meat! Same with chicken wings. You ever notice how some people pick up and put down package after package of whatver meat they’re looking at? That’s us looking for some good shit lol >
  
  i agree theyre messy but ribs are so fucking good.
  i wouldn't order them out in public though.  i need a sink right after im done. >
  
  Pozole. >
  
  I understood where you were coming from until you said chicken wings >
  
  Guess you don't eat crab then. 10x worse than the foods you cited. >
  
  Did you ever try fish or seafood? >
  
  OP if you’re struggling to eat ribs you’re getting crappy ribs. Same with chicken wings. Those some of the best and easiest foods to chow down on. >
  
  Ribs are my favorite of the meats. This opinion is the craziest thing I've ever read on the internet in my entire life. >
  
  Where is the work in eating ribs? Or chicken wings? I mean ribs you just literally pull the bones apart. I will say IDK why people get so messy eating them. I use 4 fingers and thats it, you dont have to eat like a caveman lol