Good pork back fat also smokes well.

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Mr Frost's other assets include one of America's few female generals as his wife, a strong record on bringing defence contracts and other pork back to Texas, a relatively conservative record in Congress (he is best known for a tough law punishing child-molesters) and the fact that Mr Sessions is fairly strong meat even by Texas standards.

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For pork, baby back ribs take up marinade very well and cook in an instant.

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They also have very good barbecue and a vast array of it, including hard to find beef ribs, the brontosaurus cut of the barbecue world, even rarer lamb ribs, and a choice of real pork or baby back ribs, whereas most have one or the other.

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Good for Kirk and the pork lobby for fighting back.

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Regardless, its chicken unit swung back into profitability, on a sequential basis, while pork products remained strong.

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Mr Mori, a pork-barrel politician, is unlikely to back full-scale bank reform in his present, vulnerable state.

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