My daughter was kind to take me out to a Birthday Dinner last nite at a local chain restaurant. It was a very enjoyable evening. The salad and the dessert were excellent. However the main course consisting of a slab of baby back ribs put me to mind of the last time I tried baby back ribs at this same restaurant.
They characterize the baby back ribs as "fall off the bone". They do indeed fall off the bone. You don't even need to eat them like real ribs, by using your fingers and biting the meat off the bones. Nope, they indeed do literally fall off the bone. They take this slab of tasteless ribs that have already been cooked to death and have no flavor imbedded in the meat, they throw 'em on the grill to sear some marks on the surface and coat them with some BBQ flavored sauce.
I may as well have been eating a boiled or steamed to death slab of ribs with some flavoring. I ate about 20% of the slab and finished off the fries, then had dessert, a grilled lemon pound cake slice topped with blueberries, strawberries and squirtem. I brought the remainder of the rib meat home and will use it next time I make some kind of casserole where I can surround it with some kind of flavor and potatoes.
I have visited this restaurant many times in the past 5 years, but this is the first time I revisited the baby back ribs since the visit I had in August 2008 which I chronicled in this Thots from the BToS blog post. The fall off the bone baby back ribs are still the same, and I'll never try them again at this chain of restaurants.
JD, complaining about food as usual here in the BToS
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