by Gloria Ezeh
If yous are Nigerian, there's every adventure yous know, in addition to receive got eaten, "biscuit bone" before.
Most probable called in addition to therefore because of its crunchiness, biscuit os is what Nigerians used to refer to cartilage flora inwards meat.
Not but whatever cartilage, but the white in addition to dense ones, rattling frequently seen inwards beef. So liked is biscuit os yesteryear Nigerians that unopen to people prefer it to whole, thin meat.
Some delicacies specifically asks for it too, e.g. Moi-Moi, Ekpang Nkukwo or fifty-fifty pepper soup.
While unopen to receive got claimed the term "biscuit" came from the false pronunciation of "brisket" (as inwards "brisket bone") a lot of people notwithstanding hold the advert was no mistake.
"Biscuit os is but cartilage," Samuel, a schoolteacher inwards Lagos, says. "We telephone band it in addition to therefore because of how it feels inwards the oral cavity when chewed."
"I ever idea it is a colloquialism," says Daniel Nkado, DNB's main editor.
"Brisket is a cutting of nitty-gritty from the thorax or lower thorax of cattle. Saying brisket os would hateful a variety of os flora inwards brisket [meat from animal's breast], but nosotros all know that what nosotros telephone band "biscuit bone" tin sack live flora anywhere inwards the cattle, from caput to toe.
"However, still, the pronunciation of 'brisket' which is 'briskit' actually sounds a lot similar proverb 'biscuit', in addition to therefore it is rattling possible the pronunciations must receive got been mixed up."
According to the Jade Institute, cartilage is rich inwards collagen, glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate in addition to elastin, every bit good every bit other nutrients.
While non mutual inwards American diets, os cartilage (also known every bit gristle) is frequently flora inwards Asian in addition to Southeast Asian cuisines.
It tin sack live used every bit a soup or stew ingredient, every bit a thickener for broths or eaten seasoned on its own.
In Asian cultures, eating cartilage is believed to promote salubrious skin, joints in addition to hair. However, these purported wellness benefits are non yet supported yesteryear Western research.
Whether 'biscuit bone' or 'brisket bone', it is sure as shooting Nigerians volition operate along enjoying their 'special bone' for many generations to come!
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Gloria Ezeh, writing for ! Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
If yous are Nigerian, there's every adventure yous know, in addition to receive got eaten, "biscuit bone" before.
Most probable called in addition to therefore because of its crunchiness, biscuit os is what Nigerians used to refer to cartilage flora inwards meat.
Not but whatever cartilage, but the white in addition to dense ones, rattling frequently seen inwards beef. So liked is biscuit os yesteryear Nigerians that unopen to people prefer it to whole, thin meat.
Some delicacies specifically asks for it too, e.g. Moi-Moi, Ekpang Nkukwo or fifty-fifty pepper soup.
While unopen to receive got claimed the term "biscuit" came from the false pronunciation of "brisket" (as inwards "brisket bone") a lot of people notwithstanding hold the advert was no mistake.
"Biscuit os is but cartilage," Samuel, a schoolteacher inwards Lagos, says. "We telephone band it in addition to therefore because of how it feels inwards the oral cavity when chewed."
"I ever idea it is a colloquialism," says Daniel Nkado, DNB's main editor.
"Brisket is a cutting of nitty-gritty from the thorax or lower thorax of cattle. Saying brisket os would hateful a variety of os flora inwards brisket [meat from animal's breast], but nosotros all know that what nosotros telephone band "biscuit bone" tin sack live flora anywhere inwards the cattle, from caput to toe.
"However, still, the pronunciation of 'brisket' which is 'briskit' actually sounds a lot similar proverb 'biscuit', in addition to therefore it is rattling possible the pronunciations must receive got been mixed up."
According to the Jade Institute, cartilage is rich inwards collagen, glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate in addition to elastin, every bit good every bit other nutrients.
While non mutual inwards American diets, os cartilage (also known every bit gristle) is frequently flora inwards Asian in addition to Southeast Asian cuisines.
It tin sack live used every bit a soup or stew ingredient, every bit a thickener for broths or eaten seasoned on its own.
In Asian cultures, eating cartilage is believed to promote salubrious skin, joints in addition to hair. However, these purported wellness benefits are non yet supported yesteryear Western research.
Whether 'biscuit bone' or 'brisket bone', it is sure as shooting Nigerians volition operate along enjoying their 'special bone' for many generations to come!
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Gloria Ezeh, writing for ! Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/