TikTok has long been a platform full of creators doing the weirdest challenges and trends imaginable, but JManGo (@jmango22) might top the rest of the competition. this creator isn’t going viral for singing, dancing, or delicious recipes — he’s dedicated his platform to eating real bones.
JManGo is a New Zealand-based food content creator, and while he tries many different unique foods on his platform, he’s most well-known for his videos of eating bones, which are posted periodically between or in combination with him taste-testing other foods.
Although most of his videos go viral for their peculiarity, a TikTok posted on September 5 has become one of JManGo’s most popular videos to date. The video, which has over 790K likes and 20.7M views features him tackling the “thickest bone” the creator has ever eaten while drenching each bite in 100% pure Canadian maple syrup.
“The thickest bone I’ve ever eaten, and I’m proud to admit that I can bite right through that,” he said to begin his video. Among the bones he eats is one of his favorites, a beef connecting bone.
“I’m a bone eating expert, don’t try and eat bones at home,” JManGo cautioned, taking a sip from the can of maple syrup. “Cheers!”
Out of the 24K comments on the video, with most of the commenters debating whether or not JManGo is actually eating real bones or not. Many believe that the texture of the bone in his videos look similar to that of white chocolate, while others believe that he’s truly eating bones, but his ease in biting and eating them is due to boiling them beforehand.
JManGo has been receiving allegations of eating white chocolate bones for over a year. In a video posted in June 2025, he specifically issued a warning about eating bones.
“[It’s] unsafe to eat chicken bones unless they are cooked until they’re soft,” he cautioned. “So do not mess around [with] uncooked chicken bones, you’ll get splinters in your throat.”
In some captions of his videos, JManGo specifies that the bones have been boiled for two or three days prior to consumption.
An article from Kitchenwisdom specifies that boiling bones to the extent that JManGo claims to do will make the bones softer and easier to chew and digest. While boiling the bones for longer does soften them more, it also removes most — if not all — of the nutrients that the bones originally contain.
“Boiling bones for an extended period of time can remove some of the nutrients from the bone, so it is important to balance the need for softness with the preservation of nutrients,” said the article.
Aside from eating beef bones, JManGo has also eaten tuna skeletons, as shown in a video posted recently on October 5.
“Super strong fishy flavor, crunches pretty easily…It has a really strong, unpleasant taste,” he said, attributing the less-than-desirable taste to the fact that the type of tuna is not a prime fish. “This bullet tuna is not doing it for me, and I don’t think I’ll ever eat it again…This is one of the worst things I’ve ever eaten.”
Whether or not the bones he’s eating are real or not, JManGo clearly should stick to eating chicken and beef bones if he values taste over variety.