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A certain someone I live with and I had a conversation I wanted to end.  It was concerning a lunch that was given to me: slow-cooked bbq chicken.  Now, I admit that I'm spoiled by establishments that make it perfectly acceptable to binge at the speed of light and then completely regret not taking the time to thoroughly enjoy or even chew a meal.  It's part of a problem I attribute to short, short lunch periods during public and parochial school. So, back to this chicken.  As I popped some of it in my mouth, I noticed that I had just as much bone as I has meat... Each mouthful, even the most calculated had me chewing carefully and picking out bones of all sizes... At one point I turned with a distressed look stating that I thought I swallowed part of a bone.  After, I was asked what I thought of the meal.  I said that while the meat was alright, the meal was ruined because of all the bones I had to endure.  Big bones, medium bones, which were completely obvious and avoidable, then the teeny tiny thin yet pointy rib bones.  I said that serving it in this fashion is just a lawsuit waiting to happen. It seemed the party that asked thought I was absurd "because chicken has bones". (well... DUH, right?) My point is, even after I had realized this was a bony mess, I think I still managed to swallow what felt like, on the way down, a piece of bone.  Now, call me crazy, but it's my opinion that if you're running an eating establishment, you might want to make an effort to keep your patron from choking or perhaps swallowing a bit possible of creating an opportunity for internal bleeding, right? Pardon me while I try to restrain my inner hypochondriac.

Of course, when I opened and began eating this, I thought I had a bunch of BBQ chicken thighs.  I did expect bones, just not what turned out to be an entire chicken, hastily chopped to bits with bone fragments of all shapes and sizes.

So, for future references, from this establishment, I'll be ordering food prepared with veggies only or cold-cuts.