A spare rib or 'spare ribs' as they are better known is a meat dish, made from pork ribs coated with a sticky sweet or BBQ glaze and slow cooked until the meat is tender and falling off the bone, often eaten as a starter to a Chinese meal.
Type of rib that you eat
According to etymonline.com "1596, from meaning "absence of fat" or perhaps from M.L.G. ribbesper "spare ribs," from sper "spit," from P.Gmc. *speru, from PIE *sper- "pole, spear," related to spar (n.1).
Spare Rib
With your hands. Cutting it off the bone works, but isn't as fun.
Take it to the vets?
Baby back ribs are taken from the top of the rib cage between the spine and the spare ribs, below the loin muscle.
The muscles that are located between the ribs are called the intercostal muscles. Inter- means 'between', and costa derives from the Latin for 'rib'.
The following foods can be cooked on a chiminea: pizza, steak, baked potato, spare rib, kebabs, and crab. One can also bake bread and make pies with a chiminea.
During the middle Ages, when the Church insisted on absolute faith in the Bible over scientific inquiry, it was commonly believed that men had one less rib than women. Few surgeons would dare to check, and if they did, they would have kept quiet about it. Now of course, we know that men and women have the same number of ribs.
floating rib
rib two is atypical because it has an extra tuberosity on the shaft of the rib
Rib = costa
it was the right rib.