some oooga booga ponderin'

[mullet]

  Just thought I'd throw something preposterous out there to see how desperate somebody could get in a bad situation.   Bull testicles might not be so bad, given different alternatives. And I thought they were good, slow, smoked.

[El Destructo]

Like I said...what kinda Man would eat something that belongs swinging....well eddie answered that question for me!!!!!

[stickbender]

     In Montana, they have an annual Bull Testicle Festival, in a little town somewhere in between Missoula, and Helena.  It is always after I leave from out there.  I think it is over now.  So Eddie you will have to wait till next year.  I haven't tried em.  Some friends of mine have, and said they are pretty good fried.  I just don't have the desire to try it, unless there wasn't anything else to eat......for a lonnnnng time!   But as for why anyone would try it, I guess maybe wayyyy back in time, the lowest member of the tribe, got the left overs, and acquired a taste for em.  How do you think sausage got invented.  And can you imagine what the first person to eat an oyster must have gone through before actually thinking about eating that?  Must have been awful hungry.  But thankfully he did.  I love em.  Raw, stewed, fried, what ever.  As for the Bull testicles, I think there might be a possibility that I might have unknowingly ate some bits and pieces of em, since I am fond of head cheese.  I once bought a package of it, and lo and be hold, there was part of an eyelid, complete with lashes.  After I picked that out, it was pretty good.  So, if they will pack that in there too, I would assume that they would put the clappers, staff of life, and all, in also.  I haven't had any head cheese in some time.  I just might have to go to the store, on my beer run, and pick up a package.

                                                                         Wayne

[recurve shooter]

gotta love some good head cheese. 

[cowboy]

Theirs a place up on the red called the river - go figure. They've got some of the best rocky mountain oysters i've ever had. They gotta be battered and fried though .

[FlintWalker]

I've eaten them before. Kinda rich so a little goes a long ways.
 I'd rather have squirrel brains and tongue. I've eaten squirrel eyes too, but would rather have the bull nuts.

[recurve shooter]

never had tree rat brain. how do you cook those?
and if yer eatin squirl head gravy you got to eat it warm before that ole ear wax starts to harden up. 

[Justin Snyder]

You guys are amazing. Mountain Oysters are good eats. You all talk like there is something wrong with eating them but Ill bet you all eat eggs that come straight out of a chickens.................... 

[FlintWalker]

I always just skinned the whole squirrels head out and fried it real slow.  After it's cooked, you would just crack the top of the head open with a big spoon and dig out the brains. You can pry open the mouth and pull out the tongue, it ain't bad, but I don't care for the eyes.  I've ate plenty of them, when I had to.  I don't have to any more, so now I just shoot 'em through the head.

[stickbender]

     Not only do we eat the chicken eggs, but we eagerly drink alcohol, which is waste from bacteria......   So male bovine glands should not be a problem.  Like I said, I have friends who eat them fried, and like them.  I just haven't had the urge to try them.  I might if I had enough of the bacteria by product though......   Some of the S.A. Indians eat tarantulas, but won't eat an egg.  They think it is disgusting to eat something un born.  I guess it depends on what part of the world you are from.  I know I would not eat a duck egg with an embryo in it, like in some parts of Asia, or snake blood wine, in Vietnam, or some of the other exotic foods around the world.  Like they say in Italy, " Tutti E Gusti, sono Gusti."  All tastes are tastes.  Or in other words, to each his own.  I used to be called weird because I would eat smoked oysters, or squid in ink sauce for breakfast at the fire station.  But the ones saying that would only eat steak and potatoes, CBC. (Chicken, Broccoli, Corn )  Anything else was weird.  I told them they would not do well traveling outside of the US.  Maybe one day, when I finally get settled out in Montana, I will go to one of those festivals, and actually partake of the one time calf seed producer.  But being a man, there is just something about seeing them removed, and and fried, and then sliced!! I can't help but wince......

                                                                            Wayne

[recurve shooter]

I always just skinned the whole squirrels head out and fried it real slow.  After it's cooked, you would just crack the top of the head open with a big spoon and dig out the brains. You can pry open the mouth and pull out the tongue, it ain't bad, but I don't care for the eyes.  I've ate plenty of them, when I had to.  I don't have to any more, so now I just shoot 'em through the head.

im gunna have to try that one day.

[mullet]

  This is funny, I only posted about, "whittlin'" because of the comments  of "I'd never eat that!". Yea, when you get hungry,,, bet me,

[Justin Snyder]

  This is funny, I only posted about, "whittlin'" because of the comments  of "I'd never eat that!". Yea, when you get hungry,,, bet me,

The funny thing is you don't even have to get hungry. Get people away in a survival or even just a camping situation for a few days and they will eat a lot of things they usually wouldn't. The mind kind of heals itself from the insanity of the detached modern life. I went on a trek with a bunch of 14-18 year olds. Some of these kids wouldn't eat anything that wasn't out of plastic wrap. By the 3rd day they were killing and eating rattle snakes. They had plenty of food, but their state of mind was healed. 

[recurve shooter]

that sounds like it was fun. my friend has a couzin from up in yankee land and he is coming down next week. we gonna go out on a friends land with a few tarps in a sleepin bags for a night or to and see how it goes. we have seen big cat tracks around there so it will be interesting. im gunna bring my pistol just in case, but we arnt gunna have any trouble.

[jamie]

i eat grubs and other crawly things on a regular basis so cow nuts cant be that bad. not gonna run out and look for em but id try em. what a screwed up topic this turned into