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Re: Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker

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Post by heelix » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:26 PM UTC

You will see it here and there. It is not common, usually in steak houses or French restaurants. The smaller (dedicated) butcher shops will give you a cut that you can work with. The larger grocery stores usually only have bones for stock or at best oxtail soup.

Re: Bone marrow was kept in a Stone Age meat locker

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Post by yial » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

Anecdotal, but you’re mostly correct.

Where I live currently, there’s exactly one restaurant that has it on the menu for quite literally a 2 hour driving radius.

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Post by mslip » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:36 PM UTC

Absolutely love bone marrow. Pretty rare I get to eat it though.

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Post by Merrill » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 1:55 PM UTC

When we had a local packing plant butcher steers, we'd get round steaks with the ring bone, including marrow. My recollection is that it was pretty tasty. The dog loved chewing the bone afterwards.

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Post by cpach » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:05 PM UTC

I live in Sweden but I’ll take the opportunity to answer anyway :) I recently had some bone marrow when my sister-in-law made gulyás. IMHO marrow is too fatty and has too little taste. I love butter, cream and ribeye and stuff like that, but not a fan of marrow to be honest.

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Post by h2odragon » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

>How do Americans think about bone marrow as a dish?

We don't. Even the tiny number of people that do their own butchering rarely mention it. I've had hunters tell me "don't give bones to your dogs its bad for them!"

Most Americans don't know marrows could be food and would probably have to be starving before they'd try it.

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Post by danharaj » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

It's rare in American cuisine but in New York one of my favorite restaurants has a bone marrow fried rice and it's sublime.

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Post by piptastic » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:31 PM UTC

You need a big-ish city to find them with any frequency. They’re on the menu at my favorite restaurants in Vegas and San Diego. I also just recently saw them in Tallahassee. I’ve also had marrow delivered via crowd cow, a crowd funded butcher box service.

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Post by rch » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

I regularly see bone marrow on restaurant menus, and frozen cut bones are available in grocery stores.

I've lived in North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, New York and Colorado.... Wherever you happen to be I'd guess that if you start looking you'll find that it's always been there.

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Post by CPLX » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:54 PM UTC

Despite all the comments here it’s not particularly uncommon, at least not in places that have either adventurous fine dining or throwback old school steak type options.

Head to Minetta Tavern in NYC’s west village and sit at the bar and order it with a glass of wine, you’ll thank me later.