It’s officially wishbone season. What with all the whole birds we’re bound to be consuming in the next few weeks, it’s high time we know our way around a wishbone, or at least a wishbone competition.
We all know what those are, right? That post-meal game where you and a competitor grab opposite ends of a two-pronged bird bone and pull to see who will walk away with the bigger half. It’s part superstition, part friendly competition, part tradition. Well, thanks to the team at Scientific American, making sure you crack the bigger bone just got a lot easier. Check out a (very technical) explainer video that gives you a few ways to win that wish—and a few ways to cheat along the way.
Do you think you have what it takes to crack the competition? Let us know in the comments below.
Valerio is a freelance food writer, editor, researcher and cook. He grew up in his parent's Italian restaurants covered in pizza flour and drinking a Shirley Temple a day. Since, he's worked as a cheesemonger in New York City and a paella instructor in Barcelona. He now lives in Berlin, Germany where he's most likely to be found eating shawarma.
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