Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> I always look for marrow bones with meat surrounding the bone for
soup.
> I like the cooked marrow smeared on a piece of bread. Long ago they
> were cheap, too.

Cheap, nuthin'... that's right, nuthin'... bones were free. In fact
you didn't even need to ask, the butcher would automatically shtup a
couple pounds of bone in the order... 'specially a young pretty woman.