So how thick is your veal shank? Most of the photos I see online show something like a standard pork chop, but the only time I ever ordered osso buco in a restaurant it was about four inches of bone with all the attached meat presented with the bone oriented as if the calf was standing!

That was at a German butcher's restaurant that buys 4H and Future Farmer livestock and does their own processing. They tend to do their presentations in ways sometimes a bit unsettling to Americans! Mighty tasty, though.