Country-style ribs
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Combined Graph record U-00947 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0547. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach defines the stored entity directly: 'Country-style ribs are not ribs at all. They come from the shoulder area of the pig.' This matches the stored key ingredient (country-style pork ribs) and confirms the wave-12 sourcing finding that the cut is not true ribs.
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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach defines the stored entity directly: 'Country-style ribs are not ribs at all. They come from the shoulder area of the pig.' This matches the stored key ingredient (country-style pork ribs) and confirms the wave-12 sourcing finding that the cut is not true ribs.
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- Work type: dish
- Category: mains
Sources
- https://blogs.extension.iastate.edu/answerline/2021/02/02/know-your-pork-ribs/comment-page-1/ (verification source · master store)
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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach defines the stored entity directly: 'Country-style ribs are not ribs at all. They come from the shoulder area of the pig.' This matches the stored key ingredient (country-style pork ribs) and confirms the wave-12 sourcing finding that the cut is not true ribs.
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