Paradoxically, too, the centre of the oxtail bone does not consist of marrow but of a form of light gristle.
If old people buy the cheap cuts of meat, it generally means that they buy meat with a large proportion of bone and gristle.
It is easy to decide to abort a woman if there is no risk, but one is getting rid not of a piece of gristle but of a living organism.
It has so much fat; so much gristle; so much bone and so much that is inedible that buying it for a few pence a pound means buying the dearest.
Instead, it has a biological version of a ramjet engine - complete with a turbine of bone and gristle.
Renny was a giant of a man, with fists like buckets of gristle and bone.
Some fibrous tissue (like gristle) is often also involved.
Almost all the men and women wore silver nose-rings hanging from the middle gristle of the nose, and some of them had little hearts hanging from the rings.
