The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50419 Message #764722
Posted By: Crane Driver
13-Aug-02 - 06:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Eggs and Marrowbone
Subject: RE: Eggs and Marrowbone
It's an old joke, that bone marrow makes you blind. If you take a marrowbone and boil it, all the marrow cones out into the water, making a broth. So, look through the middle of the bone, and you can't see anything at all!