Although smoking does not always affect scores on smell-tests, it is widely believed to reduce sensitivity. A recent study at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that, contrary to popular belief, blind people do not necessarily have a keener sense of smell than sighted people.
In American cuisine, ribs usually refers to barbecue pork ribs, or sometimes beef ribs, which are served with various barbecue sauces. They are served as a rack of meat which diners customarily tear apart by hand, then eat the meat from the bone.
This budget-friendly cut of pork does start from one of two areas that contain bones from other parts of the animal: 1  The blade end near the shoulder. 2  The shoulder. Boneless pork ribs can also be thick strips cut from pork shoulder steaks, and these are the ones I see more often, sometimes labeled as pork shoulder country-style ribs.