Neural Tissue

Ate a lamb shoulder in Chilis today in Midvalley.

Halfway starting my yarrmylicious meal, I saw the sawn off scapula. Then I tried to identify the muscles and bones as I would see my meal as a human shoulder.

And then I made out the vertebra with the spinous processes, and the vertebral body with the centre foramen, and the ribs. Then I noticed the ewww part, the spinal cord was STILL inside the centre foramen! It was slightly shrunken after the 'well done' cooking, and looked a shade paler than the charred muscles. But wouldn't the cook remove the spinal cord segment before serving it? That was a really ewww factor...

After finishing the yarrmylicious parts, I suddenly have an idea. Why don't I dissect my poor lamb? And so I pried open the spinal cord, separated it from the meninges (which was well preserved despite the cooking) and found the exiting thoracic nerve root leading as 2 trails of meninges (dorsal and ventral roots) running out of the cord... EEEeewwww...