I still stand by my conviction that Pizza School has the best pepperoni for the price you pay. Since they cater to school children, they also have some pretty whacky offerings. This is the latest one to come out: Pork Rib Pizza.
Bone-in pork ribs on a pizza. Hey, I was a fan of the old Pizza Hut BBQ pizza in the late ’80s. This may not be so bad. In fact, as far as flavor, it wasn’t. Get yourself a mouthful of barbecue and then a bit of pizza and it wasn’t an unpleasant experience.
But I did notice something. The bones were a little, um, squishy. The ultimate disgust happened when I bit into a rib and bit right through. The bone disintegrated like jelly. I stopped eating the pizza right there and felt like I was going to throw up during much of the day. Trying to think of what violent processing went on to make a pork rib fall apart like wet cardboard and what it was doing to my insides at that very moment.
Gonna stick with the pepperoni.
What is the issue here!
That was the idea behind the McRib… edible chewable bones, but real!
How did it taste?
The McRib was a pressed and formed meat patty in the shape of bones. No real bones were in it.
From Ye Olde Wikipaedia: “The McRib consists of a boneless pork patty, barbecue sauce, onions and pickles served on a 6 inch (15.2 cm) roll. “
Have you boiled bones for soup stock before? You boil the bones until they are soft so you can get all the collagen and goodness out of the bones into your stock. The bones are discarded after they have given up their goodness.
The real question is why in the world would you put bones on a pizza?
That’s what scares me. I know bones go soft when making stock. But how did they do that on those ribs?
Don’t ask, don’t tell!