# Have you heard the expression Pizza "Bones" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878 "2012-09-26T13:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/61 "2012-09-27T05:04:04Z")
Never heard the expression. Grew up in the south, if that matters. Still gonna call it pizza crust. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/62 "2012-09-27T15:11:26Z")
Have heard the term exactly once…some friends of my wife’s aunt and uncle called the uneaten crusts “pizza bones”, and did, indeed, give them to the dog. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/63 "2012-09-27T17:08:33Z")
Never heard it before, though from context I figured out exactly what it meant. I think I still prefer to call it “crust”. And I happen to love it, so our dogs generally don’t get any of mine anyway. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/64 "2012-09-27T17:16:35Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Another hand in the air for this. A third hand in the air here. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/65 "2012-09-27T17:24:32Z")
I’ve heard people say it a few times in person, maybe 5 times? It always struck me as one of those expressions that was cute to hear someone else say, but it would never occur to me to start using the expression myself. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/66 "2012-09-28T05:08:46Z")
I think I heard it once before a while ago. I still think it sounds asinine. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/67 "2012-09-28T10:26:28Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > Frequently used by my Texan ex-gf, specifically in the context of letting the dog have them. I voted heard/never use it when the reality is used to use it and haven’t in many years. Then I started to wonder why and I think this is why. I haven’t lived with a dog for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/68 "2012-09-28T10:50:37Z")
Took me a minute, but yeah. Not a term I use much, as “crusts” usually seems clear enough. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/69 "2012-09-28T12:56:25Z")
Southern Ontario. Never heard it before this thread, but I’m sure as hell using it from now on, 'cause it’s a great word. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/70 "2012-09-28T16:11:00Z")
Yep, my dogs love the pizza bones. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/71 "2012-09-28T17:03:52Z")
Grew up in central Indiana and knew the term, though I knew only one family that used it, transplants from Pensacola, Florida. Seems to me that most natives here simply call them “crusts.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/72 "2012-09-29T05:18:42Z")
I’ve used it myself, but it was more of a joke than anything. I’d never heard of anyone else using it but the people I said it to. I’m pretty sure the context was telling them that the bones were good, too. They’re perfectly edible breadsticks. If you need sauce on it, dip it. The reason I don’t use it often is probably because I like them. And people at least know what I mean if I call it the crust. ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/73 "2012-09-29T12:26:04Z")
I’d never heard it until DH and I became friends waaaay back when we were 18. I still eat his bones on a regular basis. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/74 "2012-09-29T12:28:47Z")
This is the absolute first time I’ve heard the expression. Guess it’s not so common in my part of Canada. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/75 "2012-09-29T15:15:15Z")
In the “know it but don’t know why I know it since I can’t recall ever personally experiencing it being used” camp. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, a few years in Hawaii, 13 years in San Francisco area. At least for me it is a concept without much purpose. If a pizza crust isn’t good enough that I wouldn’t want to eat all of it then I won’t be eating any of it. And when that happens what is left on the plate is just called “bad pizza.” So it is hard for me to imagine to regularly leaving the edge of the crust uneaten that a term would develop for it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/76 "2012-09-29T15:19:55Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > At least for me it is a concept without much purpose. If a pizza crust isn’t good enough that I wouldn’t want to eat all of it then I won’t be eating any of it. And when that happens what is left on the plate is just called “bad pizza.” To me, the taste of the crust edge is sometimes, but not often, divorced from the taste of the rest of the pizza in New York style ultra-thin slices. Where the dough’s thin it’s great as a sauce and cheese delivery mechanism but at the edge it can be dry and hard (but not always). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/77 "2012-09-29T16:09:18Z")
I guessed it referred to the crust, but it doesn’t make sense because bones aren’t eaten but pizza crust is. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/78 "2012-09-29T16:20:17Z")
In the context of a dog getting them, I would have guessed that it meant crusts. But absent that context, I was thinking it meant those little plastic tables that get stuck in the middle to prevent the box from collapsing. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/79 "2012-09-29T16:37:47Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > I guessed it referred to the crust, but it doesn’t make sense because bones aren’t eaten but pizza crust is. The people I know who use the term are the kind who consider the edge crust to be unfit for consumption. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878/80 "2012-09-30T23:49:11Z")
I heard it used when I attended college at Ohio University in Athens. Never before or since. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-the-expression-pizza-bones/635878.md?page=5)