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I see, so the texas barbeque website along with about 10 other butcher, or cuts of beef websites I looked at were all wrong. Ok have it your way, but when I ask for a tenderloin at the local butchers, I know it will come from the left or right side of the spine.
The tenderloins do come from both the left and the right side of the spine. There are two of them in the animal. They are the ones inside the deer though not on the outside. If you were to buy filet mignon and they were giving you the cuts from the outside. You are getting ripped off