Got Ribs??

I'm originally from East Tennessee and was back home visiting when I decided to pay a visit to a local regionally distributed breakfast sausage maker called Wamplers Farm Sausage. Aside from my own, homemade sausage, Wamplers is the only kind I will eat. I went to school with the children of the owners and just have a real connection to it.
I went into their small office and asked to see their product list and saw that they sold ribs! Well of course they can't utilize the ribs in the sausage manufacturing process, but I had never thought about them having ribs. The secretary told me these ribs came from 600 pound sows not the smaller hogs ribs usually come from and that they cut a strip right out of the middle of the rack about 5 inches wide and these suckers are over 20 inches long!
The ribs come in 10 and 30 pound boxes, so I got 4-10lb boxes and took them home. I defrosted a box of them and there were four strips of ribs in the box. They were the leanest, thickest, meatiest ribs I've ever seen. And by the way, they just cost 80 cents a pound!!
I put the ribs on my electric smoker for 4 hours and they came out perfectly. They are hands down the best ribs I've ever eaten, and the amount of meat on them is unbelievable!
You can bet I'm going to keep these stocked in the freezer year round now.

Thanks for the heads up.  I reside in Knoxville and I know some of the Wampler family.  I will definately make a trip to buy some of those fine ribs.  I will try them on the smoker and grill.
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Got any pics?