Spare ribs


sorabji.com: What are you eating?: Spare ribs
By V on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 09:35 am:

    ...they are not worth buying,5% meat,95% bones...if you can find meaty spare ribs,tell me.


By V on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 02:34 pm:

    ...I take it you enjoy crunching bones...


By droopy on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 04:43 pm:

    in america, we inject our cows with so much steroids and shit that our spareribs are about 50/50.


By V on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 06:30 pm:

    50/50 what?


By Nate on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 06:35 pm:

    in america, we eat pork ribs.

    rib meat is damn tasty, v. plus you can throw the bones over your shoulder for the dogs.

    it is very manly.


By V on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 07:28 pm:

    Nate,do you get enough meat to eat? we dont,just dry bones.


By lapis on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 07:45 pm:

    dry bones? what a lonely sound.


By droopy on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 08:29 pm:

    in my little part of america, beef short ribs - costillas cargada de res - are on sale at the local mexican market. i'm thinking of picking up a rack of ribs and some corn (5 for $1 - corn is sort of like vegetable ribs) and have a summer cookout sometime.


By Spider on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 10:28 pm:

    Ribs are so messy to eat, and you get so little meat for all the psychic effort of overcoming your squeamishness from touching slimy things (ok, *my* squeamishness) that it's just not worth it.

    Like, I've been dying to eat shrimp for ages now, and I was so happy to go to an Asian restaurant in Billings last night and get stir-fried jumbo shrimp with noodles, because a few weeks ago when I ate at Red Lobster (dude, shut up...pickin's are slim out here), I of course ordered shrimp, but they were so greasy and drowning in butter....bleccch. I had to pick their tails off with my fingers (because I haven't yet learned how to get the tail meat out of the tail shells with a fork), and I was so grossed out by the slimy feel of the butter on my fingers that I couldn't enjoy the shrimp. Well, that and they didn't taste very good. But last night's shrimp were scrumptious.


By droopy on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 11:44 pm:

    camarones son demasiado caro.

    i think i come from a family that knows the joys of messy eating - from my new england days ripping into a lobster to those texas barbecues where we got so covered in sauce they'd had the hound dogs lick us clean.

    but i probably won't actually buy any ribs. what i do have is several pounds of .37 cent per pound chicken. tomorrow i think i'm going to try to make bbq chicken in the slow cooker. i found a bottle of sauce in the fridge today, right next to a bottle of whiskey i thought i'd lost on friday.


By Nate on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 08:44 pm:

    in london i would stick to the indian (asian) food.

    mexican was just foul.

    you come out here, v, and i'll bbq a rack of ribs for you. you can tell me if there is enough meat for the effort.

    i hear it is as close to the human eating experience as you can get.

    i should qualify: in america we eat all sorts of shit. but for bbq, i think pork ribs are the way to go. beef short ribs in a slow braise can be be awesome.




By Antigone on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 10:11 pm:

    Oh, first thing I eat when I get off the plane in London: kidney pie.


By droopy on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 11:40 pm:

    my sister has a friend - from texas - who lives in london and has a restaurant or something specializing in southwestern (american) food. last time my sister went to london (she's married to a soccer nut who has to the big games), her friend had her smuggle in a brick of velveeta and a can of ro-tel (canned tomatoes with jalapeņos, v).

    slow-cooked the chicken, today. i jacked up the bbq sauce with hot sauce. let it cook for 9 hours. it was good.


By semillama on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 03:02 pm:

    I ate at a place like that in London about 13 years ago, droopy. Would it have been in existence then? As I recall, it had pretty good ribs and such.


By droopy on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 02:16 pm:

    no. this girl is my sister's age, and 13 years ago she would've been 22. i emailed my sis and asked her (i saw this thread yesterday and then was unable to get access sorabji till now). turns out the girl in question - karey butterworth - runs a catering service in london called "butter and co." not a restaurant.


By V on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 07:37 pm:

    ...regards to all of you,but you just cant get big fat meaty ribs in London,we have skinny cows,Anti when your in my part of the world (6th to 16th?) I bet you no American can find a big fat meaty rack of ribs in London...and Anti,few days from now I will post my mobile,lets have a vodka.A lot of you guys sound yummie,but I may just be talking to the Matrix.Good postings do not allways mean you are human...(Christ,Ive gone all enigmatic again)... :(


By V on Sunday, June 18, 2006 - 10:07 pm:

    Anti,so no fat ribs in London,right?