this thread outta be a ball...

When I saw this I thought it had to be from Colorado where they call them Rocky Mountain Oysters. Though I've never had them, folks I know that are connoisseurs of this type of thing tell me you have to be wary of places that substitute turkey testicles for calf testicles. Apparently turkeys have big balls.

Huh. Apparently there's a turkey testicle festival in Illinois. Who knew?

...and it has its own theme song.

"A fresh calf testicle tastes like lobster"

Oooh, I think I have a new MySpace tagline...

I tried some Rocky Mountain Oysters a few years ago at a reputable steakhouse. If memory serves, the idea is far more repulsive than the taste (which is actually pretty darn good).

I'm watching Rome right now, and in one of the episodes they show a pig carcass hanging in a kitchen, then a man cutting it's balls off and slicing them up, then the cup of sliced pig balls being taken direct, raw, to Octavian, who then eats 'em at the insistence of his mother. Yum!

having RTFL now, I can say that that was a quirky little article. thanks!

My uncle (from Pennsylvania) called them "Prairie Oysters) and once tried to get me to eat them for breakfast with eggs. (There's a picture). I wouldnt' because he wouldn't tell me what they really were, and when he finally did, I wouldnt' eat them anyway. I'd give them a shot now, though. What the heck.

"It's not the same anymore,'' moped Bob Zeier, a 75-year-old retired cattle rancher a MeFi user with a sub-10K number, sitting in the Ryegate Bar and Cafe and dragging on a Camel filter. "Not the same at all. A bull testicle is just not the same as a calf testicle.''

They taste like fried clams--not sure if it was bull or calf that I had at the SW place on Boylston st.

I ate them in front of someone who was using me and he didn't know what they were--even though it said right on the menu "They're the balls!"

Lamb ones--which I had in Ft. Worth-- don't have as strong a flavor.