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Buffalobob
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posted June 15, 2006 03:45 PM
Idaho testicle festival a go after racy ads withdrawn
08:51 AM PDT on Friday, June 9, 2006
Associated Press
EAGLE, Idaho - Now that the Fire Department has agreed to drop those racy ads from back East, the mayor has agreed to let the Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed - a tradition here since the 1950s - proceed Saturday as scheduled.
At issue are fried bull testicles, cowboy caviar. Male cattle are neutered to help them grow larger and make them more manageable.
KTVB file photo
The Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed is an annual fundraiser that brings in tens of thousands of dollars for the Eagle volunteer fire department.
The results don't turn up on steakhouse menus, but thousands of people turn out each year for the all-you-can-eat event in this city about 10 miles west of Boise.
The tradition was news to employees at Foot, Cone and Belding, a New York advertising agency. They were so tickled by the notion of paying $22 to savor sliced "Idaho tendergroin" that they offered to develop the ads for free, said Scott Pruett, treasurer of the Eagle Volunteer Firefighters Association.
But while the event has a 50-year history, the New York approach shocked some locals.
"All the controversy was directing attention away from the Fire Department and the Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed," Pruett said Thursday. "It was better to step back a little bit and have a meeting of the minds."
Phone calls late Thursday to Tony Hess at the agency weren't immediately returned.
The Foot, Cone and Belding crew came up with three ads for television, plus radio spots.
The TV ads never made the airwaves. Carried on the fire station's Web site, they included some profanity from a cartoon bull lamenting the loss of his barnyard jewels at a poetry slam.
Local radio stations did play some of the ads, including one with the line, "Hey, you with the testicles? Gimme your testicles."
That was enough to shock some members of this growing community of 12,000 people.
Mayor Nancy Merrell put her foot down. She told reporters with the Boise NBC affiliate KTVB-TV she was considering barring the Fire Department from using the city park for the event.
But she relented when the department dropped the ads.
"They have agreed to comply," Merrell said in a statement. "The Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed event will still take place."
Pruett, bemused by the attention the ads generated, said firefighters thought they were funny. And while they've agreed to clip the promotion spots, the feed is otherwise unaltered.
"The people who go, they know what they're going for," Pruett said. "They know what they're eating."
Many East Coast folks are unaware of the cattle-country canape, also celebrated at the beer-soaked "Testicle Festival" in Rock Creek, Mont., the Black Gold Cattle Co. Testicle Festival in Woodruff, Utah, and the annual "World Championship Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival" at Throckmorton, Texas, where contestants in a swinging-beef fryoff are judged on the tenderness and appearance of their cowboy caviar.
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Andy L
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posted June 15, 2006 05:11 PM
We have our own Testicle Festivle the first weekend in June, right here in town. Complete with beer garden and bands. Pretty good time and good eats.
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posted June 15, 2006 08:33 PM
We also have oyster feeds here in the mid west, but we dont have enough bulls to provide the oysters so we use pig testicles. Taste pretty much like shrimp. mmmmm
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Leonard
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posted June 16, 2006 11:01 AM
Call me squeemish, but I'm convinced that there are edible and inedible animal parts. Testicles should be in the latter catagory.
However, I once gave a mule deer penis to a chinese associate who wanted to eat it so that his own organ would benefit, in some way? I never heard how that worked out?
Good hunting. LB
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Cdog911
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posted June 16, 2006 04:26 PM
Nuts are one of those foods that, once you get past the first one, you'll never pass up a plate full. Fresh out of the fryer and dunked in shrimp suce and man, oh man!!! Cold beer on the side and they're cheap at twice the price.
In my college days, we used to go to Aggieville at Kansas State University and camp out at one of the bars there wehere they served all you can eat nuts for $3.95 and dollar draws. Drank so damned much most times that the nuts never made it all the way home. LOL
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Tim Behle
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posted June 17, 2006 08:34 AM
Beef nuts are just plain nasty. Too strong, and tough, they remind me a lot of Greek food. The flavor is just way to heavy for my liking.
Pork nuts on the other hand, are a wonderful thing.
I volunteered my services to a local veterinarian on several Saturdays while I was in High School. I'd catch and hold the hogs, while he cut them. My pay for the day was a five gallon bucket full of hog nuts.
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Leonard
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posted June 17, 2006 09:06 AM
Wonderful thing, eh? Extremely personal, wonderful things.
In the meat packing industry, where I labored for a number of years, it sure looks like "offal" to me?
Good hunting. LB
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Tim Behle
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posted June 17, 2006 09:38 AM
I guess so, I'll eat pig balls, but I won't touch any type of brains, heart, liver, tongue or feet. When I butcher, those are the parts that the dogs eat.
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Az-Hunter
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posted June 17, 2006 10:56 AM
About the only organ meat I really care for is liver,one reason being, it has some damned flavor. Just about every other unusual thing people talk about eating that would be considered "odd" to my mind, has no flavor?
Ive eaten lots of nuts over the years, just becasue it was expected and novel, but I'll be damned if they were anything I could say, I looked forward to eating?
As Lance stated, most often these kinds of things are breaded,fried and dipped in some kind of flavorfull sauce....and in the end....well, they all taste like fried batter, dipped in some kind of sauce to me?
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Leonard
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posted June 17, 2006 12:27 PM
On the other hand, could be that your taste buds have been damaged by jalapeņos and tequila, over the years?
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Cdog911
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posted June 17, 2006 12:42 PM
I've never had the chance to try pig nuts or lamb fries but wouldn't pass them up since I got myself over the tough part some time back. LOL
As far as liver - never had it. Don't wanna try it. Fish bait.
Brain - Mad cow disease. I'm weird enough without the help.
Tongue - looks too tough to me.
Feet - c'mon?!? 'Nuff said.
Bellies? - Tripe is what we used to feed racing greyhounds. I've washed out many a nasty old cow belly and cut it up to feed into a grinder. Not for me.
Heart - I'd spend more time studying it then cooking it.
How 'bout other exotics? Non-conventional wild "game"? Probably the best would be beaver. (Get your mind outta the gutter, Behle.) Smoke the front shoulders and hams, then slice. Good stuff.
'Coon? Greasy, but cooked right and it's as good as roast beef.
Anybody here ever had any of the felines before? I hear they're pretty good. I think I read where Gerry Blair cooked some backstraps from a 'cat once for dinner.
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posted June 17, 2006 12:58 PM
I think Ive eaten about anything that lives and breathes throughout the years. In my youth my gang of four, would depart on hikes thru the desert from sunrise till dark. It was our policy to try eating anything we caught or shot with our BB guns or .22s.
Ive eaten several different kinds of snakes, a varielty of lizards,every bird that flies in the desert,eggs and bugs.
As an adult, Ive tried to be open minded,and never really turned down anything that looked like meat,or might be tasty. Ive come full circle at this point in my life,and when offered up some kind of odd shit to eat,have to think the inevitable...."WHY". I no longer eat the strange shit, I prefer pork,beef,fish and fowl, I don;t need to try any more odd ball stuff.
It may sound neat to speak of dining on various rodents,felines or other omnivores, but im long over the unusual aspect of it. Lets be honest, what in the world could be better than a lovely,tender,perfectly cooked pork roast with all the fixin's?.....it sure in the hell aint't lion back straps charred over an open fire I can tell you that:)
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posted June 17, 2006 01:49 PM
Mmmmmmmmmm, ... pork roast. In truth, I try to eat a little pig everyday if for no other reason than it really pisses off the Muslims. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Those bastards can say what they want about my freedoms and my country, but they'll have their reckoning should they try to touch my bacon!
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posted June 17, 2006 01:50 PM
Bobcat's not bad. Coyote on the other hand tastes like a fart smells, only worse.
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posted June 17, 2006 07:13 PM
Brains, heart, liver, tongue and kidneys are the best parts of the animal. The only thing better is snails since you get to eat them whole.
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posted June 17, 2006 08:07 PM
Primarily Dog and cat food, Jack. Oh, the french eat snails..... and goose liver, how depraved?
The weirdest food I've been known to eat is bird embryos.
Good hunting. LB
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posted June 17, 2006 09:55 PM
"The weirdest food I've been known to eat is bird embryos."
I guess that means you never ate live monkey brains(a Mountainyard thing). It was an honor to be invited but I declined and regret that I did.
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posted June 17, 2006 10:24 PM
So how long does he stay alive without brains?!?!
Please tell the story Jack. Sounds interesting!
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posted June 17, 2006 10:27 PM
P.S.
Tacitos de lengua are very yummy and super duper tender. Tongue is definately not tough.
Just think though, while you eat it, its tasting you back!
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posted June 18, 2006 11:03 AM
I like bull nuts. Pretty much raised on em, guess you could say. We had so damned many cuttin bulls around, we had them a couple nights a week like most do hamburger or chicken.
Dont care much for pig nuts. They taste like pig shit to me. Never tried any of the others.
Dont care much for liver. As it was told to me, its like a used oil filter. Chicken livers are best, if I gotta have something. And then, I prefer gizzards. Good road munchies.
I dont care for coon or possum or groundhog. I do like beaver though. I pretty much lived on it for a while during trapping season one year. Had to eat something and runnin so many traps, that was the best I was catching. Fried beaver backstraps. Pretty good.
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Leonard
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posted June 18, 2006 11:08 AM
Andy, I have smelled pig shit, but don't know what it tastes like?
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posted June 18, 2006 11:37 AM
Trust me Leonard, I've eaten more than my share of both pig and cow shit. ( If you load enough of them into a trailer, you will get a mouthful from time to time )
Eating pig and cow meat is much better, and I've never had a steak leave a green smear on my face.
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posted June 18, 2006 11:43 AM
Tims right. Ive had more pig and cow shit in my mouth than I ever wanted.
Seems that putting cattle thru a chute, a shitty tail always finds a way to get drug thru your mouth.
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