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.
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
The skeleton visited the butcher shop because he wanted to get a spare rib.
With your hands. Cutting it off the bone works, but isn't as fun.
Yes, a meatball is more like a spare rib than a softball. Both meatballs and spare ribs are food items made from meat, while a softball is a sports equipment. The texture, preparation, and culinary context of meatballs and spare ribs align them more closely than either does with a non-food item like a softball.
Take it to the vets?
Spare ribs are separated from the pork belly and consist of the lower portion of the rib cage. They are characterized by their longer and flatter shape compared to baby back ribs, with more fat and connective tissue, which makes them flavorful but requires longer cooking for tenderness. The separation involves cutting along the rib bones to detach them from the sternum and backbone.
One delicious beef spare rib recipe that I recommend is to marinate the ribs in a mixture of soy sauce, garlic, brown sugar, and spices for a few hours. Then, bake the ribs in the oven at a low temperature for a few hours until they are tender. Finally, finish them off on the grill with a tangy barbecue sauce for a flavorful and juicy result.
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.