A chop of meat is a cut of meat cut perpendicularly to the spine, and usually containing a rib or part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion.A thin boneless chop, or one with only the rib bone, may be called a cutlet, though the difference is not always clear. The term "chop" is not usually used for beef, but a T-bone steak is essentially a loin chop, and a rib steak a rib chop.

With a roaring marble firplace to keep you warm and a stomach filled with grilled pork chops and mashed potatoes, you sit back and think about how it was for the Donner Party...

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MITT: "Whoa... There goes one!"CROWD: "Leave it, Leave it, Leave it! That's for the dogs..."MITT: "No, there's a 5 sceond rule."CROWD: "Augh..., Augh... (As Mitt puts the pork chop back on the grill.)"

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