Subj : Ribs
To : Dale Shipp
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Aug 04 2022 12:02:11
Hi Dale,
DS> What sort of ribs? I have often wondered about the popularity of "St.
DS> Louis style" ribs. You take a full rack of ribs and trim off a lot of
DS> stuff (more than half?) and then sell the rest for more than the price
RH> To be honest, I don't know. AFAIK, it's just a full rack of pregular
RH> pork ribs. Sam's Club had them on sale a while ago so we got 2 packs,
RH> each one with 2 slabs of ribs. We smoked one right away, been holding
RH> off on the others but now that I'm feeling better, we won't take as
RH> long to do the others. (G)
DS> I don't know current prices, but what I recall from BJs was that the
DS> full racks of ribs sold for somewhere under $1.50 per pound and the
DS> Saint Louis style ribs were in the neighborhood of $4 per pound.
Meat prices have gone up quite a bit over the last year or so. I was in
both Wegman's and Sam's Club last week--what both of them were charging
for ground beef was about $3.79. My thought was that it was about $3.00
more than what I paid for it when Steve and I got married in 1975.
DS> I got to thinking about this again because the restaurants where we
DS> are now living only have the SL style ribs.
RH> You're missing your smoker? (G)
DS> Very much so, missing both the smoker and the grill. OTOH, we don't
DS> have to cook most days and the restaurants have a tenderloin steak
DS> that is very good when it is on the menu.
I'm not cooking much this week--Steve had his amatuer radio club dinner
meeting Monday night, then American Legion executive committee dinner
meeting on Tuesday night. Last night he had a deacon's meeting at church
so he just grabbed a few nibbles before he left; tonight is VFW dinner
meeting. I've grabbed left overs; cooked a bit of pasta, sauced it with
some we'd made/frozen in UT & will do the same tonight to use it up; and
had odds and ends from the fridge and pantry. Not all weeks are like
this so I'll be doing more cooking next week.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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