Pork Riblets?

[Attjack]

A friend just text me to ask if I had ever cooked Cajun Pork Riblets. I have not. Do any of you ever see riblets at your butcher?

https://www.derrickriches.com/cajun-pork-riblets/

[Troutman]

Looks like ribs to me. I have braised in apple juice and liked it. Complements a hot bbq sauce, sweet heat !!

[bbqLuv]

Apple Bees had "BBQ" riblets.

Applebee's restaurants have a menu item called "riblets" that are technically not riblets. Technically they are button ribs. or "transverse processes of lumbar vertebrae byproduct from the boning of pork loins". In veal and lamb, riblets can refer to the ends of the ribs.

[texastweeter]

I'm gonna need you to dumb that down to monosylabic words for me. I'm just an ole' redneck straight outta the woods...

[bbqLuv]

I copied and pasted. I am hoping the replies will reveal what it means.

[mnavarre]

The picture looks like flanken cut spare ribs, which are generally available from any Supermercado around these parts. I buy 'em like that for pork chile verde and ramen broth.

[barelfly]

Chile verde would be great right now with this weather and temp outlook of low 20s as a high the next few days!

[Attjack]

My buddy makes a chili Verde pork ribs that his mom taught him to make. It's good. We were just talking about it today.

[Smoked Transistors]

Chuds BBQ calls them Mini Ribs! He basically uses his sawzall's to cut St.Louis spare ribs in half so he can serve them as appetizers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8dczOlAI_4

[bbqLuv]

Chuds BBQ is different, to say the least. Good information in his own manor--Party Bites. I actually watched the whole video.

[WI Bubba]

I usually see the term "riblet" attached to the rib tip cut off of spare ribs.

[Attjack]

That was what I thought at first as well but the link I posted says they're not that.

[bbqLuv]

A bone is a bone is a bone! And a bone by another name is still a bone.

Where do Riblets come from? Answers as found via Bing on the internet.
Where do riblets come from on a pig? Riblets are cut either from the last couple bones at the back end of a spare rib rack, or they come from the long finger bones coming out from the spine just beyond the last of the rib bones. If you try them you’ll likely thank God for spare ribs.

What cut are pork riblets? When a rack is trimmed to make St. Louis-style ribs, a boneless strip of meaty rib ends (or tips) remains. Riblets are produced when butchers cut the rounded end off a slab of rib bones to even it out for better presentation and easier cooking.

Button ribs (a.k.a. Applebee's riblets). These are technically not ribs. They are a thin, flat strip of meat and round bone, perhaps 1/4" thick, about 6" long, and 1 1/2" wide, cut from the sides of hog's spine behind the rearmost rib.