Folks, please help a guy out. I brought home several racks of St. Louis cut ribs and one of them has something I've never seen before (or maybe just never noticed). They are tubular strips of, tendon maybe? They are running over top of the rib bones and cut pretty easily. I didn't want to remove them all and leave some deep ravines there, but maybe I should. Thoughts? I snapped a cross-section of one for your further analysis.
As I recall (it's been a few hours since I cleaned it), these are running on top of the bones, so you can't see them from the other side at all. Just looked like a normal slab o' ribs.
Hm, that just sounds like extra food to a layperson such as myself. Are those soft bones? Seemed strange that they looked disconnected from the main rib bone.
As a typical fool would, I consulted the anatomical chart, then remembered that my wife is a vet. Thankfully she is eating said ribs, so I avoided a slap upside the head. 😂 She agreed with the direction you were headed, @texastweeter: likely part of the sternum. "Cartilageounous" is the way she described it, which makes sense given how it felt under the knife.
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