off the bone or from the bone

[JACEK1]

Hello all users!

Suppose that you eat a chicken leg. You rotate it from time to time and sink your teeth into its delicious flesh. What would you call the activity:
eating off the bone or eating from the bone?

Thank you.

 

[Tarheel]

I'd be surprised to learn there is an expression for that. But if there is one I would like to know what it is.

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't know of a phrase for it. Mind you, I've been vegetarian/vegan for nearly 25 years, so I'm not sure I'd know it even if it existed.

 

[Rover_KE]

Fair enough. Do you nibble the corn from or off the cob?

 

[SoothingDave]

It is often called "corn on the cob." So I guess when you eat corn on the cob you eat corn off the cob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_on_the_cob

 

[emsr2d2]

I would eat corn straight off the cob.

 

[jutfrank]

We would describe meat (and corn) as being on the bone (or on the cob) so I suppose that we eat it off the bone (or off the cob), as the case may be.

 

[JACEK1]

I would like to explain something. I am not looking for any expression. I was misled by the fact that "meat off the bone" means "meat without bone" and I didn't know whether or not to use "eating off the bone or eating from the bone".

 

[jutfrank]

Except that we don't. The four people who have responded so far (five including me) don't actually know. A couple have guessed what we would say if we said it. We clearly don't feel the need for such as an expression.

Speak for yourself. I'm offering what I would say and what I think makes the most sense. Note the OP, which asked "What would you call the activity: eating off the bone or eating from the bone?"