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Charcoal Grilled Pork Chops

I can remember when my wife told me she didn't like pork. Then I gave her one of my charcoal grilled pork chops with the bone in. She told me that it was one of the best things she had ever tasted! She wanted to know what it was. I told her that it was pork! Because if you are Hmong, pork at a Hmong celebration is boiled in a big cauldron and has big gobs of fat attached to a tiny little bit of meat. It in no way represents what a pork chop grilled well done over charcoal is...

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