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.
1 Beef ribs are a primal cut of bone-in beef, coming from a single rib or from several ribs out of the carcass. 2  The short ribs: several ribs cut from the rib and plate primals and a small corner of the square-cut chuck.