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The first thing that came to mind was the uneaten crusts... although these are often dipped in some kind of sauce (as breadsticks are) and eaten.
(And I can hear Bullwinkle answering the question, "Should pizza be eaten with the fingers?" by saying, "No, the fingers should be eaten separately." Just a random thought...)
Right on the button. My sister would throw the uneated crusts to the dog, and so started calling them "bones".
It seems to me that if a term is easy to understand without a lengthy explanation, then it is easier for that term to catch on. You want your listener's reaction to be "I get it," rather than, "What does that mean?" I was curious as to how easily understood this term is - thanks for humoring me.
books.google.com finds a book published in 1983 which has "pizza bones": Memo: to myself when I have a teenage kid.
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Ron Draney said:
A few years ago someone referred to the process of going through a magazine before reading it, removing all the blow-in subscription cards and inserts, as "de-boning the magazine".
Thank you, I love that. I always de-bone the magazines before I read them. Finding an insert while reading is about as pleasant as pulling a fishbone out of your mouth.
I'm also reminded of a "Peanuts" strip in which Linus has just finished eating some grapes He looks at the branch that held all the grapes and says, "Nothing left but bare bones."
I have no idea where I picked this term up from... but I know I started to refer to them as "pizza bones" around Junior High School (so '98-'99). I LOVE LOVE LOVE this term! My son (who is 3) also refers to them as "pizza bones" and it is so cute!
We are of course eaters of the "pizza bones" as they are tasty with ranch!
I remember the time I first heard the term. We were eating homemade pizza in my kitchen with our neighbors (south suburban Chicago), and the wife commented on the "bones." I instantly loved and adopted the term. We are bone eaters, too! It's one of the many things I learned from that friend who left us entirely too early. 🙁
Pizza Bones is a thick curved crust of a pizza slice.I have heard people using that term often when I was enjoying a pepperoni feast pizza in my neighboring pizzeria called freshslice pizza.
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