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All whole chickens you buy at the grocery store have wishbones. You can find them buried beneath the front of the breast meat, attached at the pointed end to the large keel-bone (or breast bone) and at the tips of the wide end to each of the wing bases. Wishbones are easier to find once the chicken is cooked, as the meat then separates from the bones more easily.

In split chicken breasts, only one half of the wishbone is present; it is broken during the preparation process. The wishes from these bones have already been used by the butchers and can not be recovered, even if the two original halves can be identified and put together again.

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