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| TARA CUSLIDGE, THE G. "Nuts to You ; Rocky Mountain Oysters Don't Taste Bad, but they Bring Grimaces, Grins at Eateries." The Gazette: 0. Aug 16 2006. ProQuest. Web. 30 Apr. 2013 . |
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"Bill Elwood offers a more direct description.
"Balls," he says bluntly.
Bingo! That's just what these people are eating -- bull testicles, better known as Rocky Mountain oysters." |
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| "The practice of eating this part of an animal's anatomy dates back to Roman times." |
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| "The Romans thought eating the organ of a healthy animal would improve the health of the corresponding human organ. And ancient Romans haven't been alone in the theory: In Asia, animal testicles are considered an aphrodisiac, according to the site." |
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| Can be made into reuban sandwiches,and pastrami. Most are served fried with cocktail sauce. |
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| When served fried with cocktail sauce consumers are given the impression that they are eating something from the sea. |
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| Ellis, Merle. "There's a Trick to Fixing Rocky Mountain Oysters." San Francisco Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext): 0. Jul 16 1986. ProQuest. Web. 10 May 2013 . |
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| "Rocky Mountain oysters, no matter the source, have a membrane covering the gland that must be removed. It is much easier to remove that membrane and to slice the fries if they still are slightly frozen and a bit frosty." |
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| " Bull, calf and lamb testicles usually are sliced into 1/2- to 1/4-inch thick slices for frying. [Jim Ross] used to have us run the slices of bull fries through the meat tenderizer once or twice." |
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| "According to [Sam Arnold],the best way to eat any Rocky Mountain oyster. 'At castration time on the range,' he recalls, 'the fries were simply impaled on a stick and roasted over the camp fire 'till cooked.'" |
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| "The fries, either sliced or whole, are dusted with seasoned flour, dipped in egg or milk and egg wash, then rolled in some sort of flour or crumbs and deep-fried in hot fat (400 degrees ) until just golden brown." If you overcook them they will be too hard to eat. |
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| McQuay, David. "Mountain Oysters: Definitely an Acquired Taste." San Francisco Chronicle (pre-1997 Fulltext): 15. Feb 13 1985. ProQuest. Web. 10 May 2013 . |
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| "Mountain oysters have a variety of regional names: Rocky Mountain oysters, prairie oysters, turkey fries, calf fries, cowbells or swinging steaks. In the Middle East they are known as eggs." |
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| "It isn't certain where or when the practice of cooking animal testicles began. No one, not even H.L. Mencken, knows who coined the phrase mountain oysters." Some people think that Indians ate bull testicles to get their strength others thought it was to increase a man's sexual prowess. |
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| "The logo has a bull walking on two legs, holding a sign that says ``Unfair.''" |
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| Why are the testicles snipped off an animal. The cutting fattens calves more quickly. It's usually done in the early spring. |
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| "Warning: Puncture your oysters, especially if they're from a chicken or turkey. If you don't, they may explode while cooking. Bull's revenge." |
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| "ANIMALLES, FRIVOLITES, AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS: Testicles" |
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| Jonathan, David. Folklore, Food in . 1st ed. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. Web. . |
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| "Ranchers and cowboys who, like Native Americans, believed that no part of the animal on which their livelihood depended should be wasted on slaughter, developed the habit of eating bull testicles, which they often have referred to as 'rocky mountain oysters.'" |
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| "In Montana, where this specialized food may also be referred to as "Montana tendergroin" or "cowboy caviar," While there are a number of such events around the state, the first and largest, called "the Testicle Festival," takes place in Clinton, Montana, just east of Missoula." |
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| "Proverbial expressions in American English seem to imply that American males admire the virility of bulls. One speaks of being "strong as a bull." Manual labor that requires heavy lifting is called "bull work." A robust stock market is a "bull market." The eating of bull testicles can be interpreted as the human male's appropriating the bull's virility for himself. A festival that features this as its raison d'être, becomes in turn a celebration of human masculinity." |
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| Several festivals have come to be held every year in which all festival goers combined eat several tons of rocky mountain oysters. |
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| Kirby, Robert. "Kirby: Ranch Grub Great. Rocky Mountain Oysters, Not so Much." The Salt Lake TribuneAug 04 2011. ProQuest. Web. 14 May 2013 . |
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| "The "oysters" are harvested during the spring drive, when the boy cows become "steer" cows through a process known as castration." |
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| "The oyster gathering is almost always done by the women, who, frankly, rather seem to enjoy it. The cowboys stay safely in the saddle and try not to whimper in sympathy." |
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| "Once gathered, the oysters are taken back to the ranch and refrigerated until they can be served to ranch guests." |
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| "Rocky Mountain oysters are the, eye-watering parts of what was once a boy cow." |
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| Coleman Cornelius Denver Post Northern,Colorado Bureau. "Bikers' Prized Bull Session Annual Weld County Rally Celebrates Taste, Mystique of Rocky Mountain Oysters." Denver Post: 0. Sep 22 2003. ProQuest. Web. 14 May 2013 . |
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| "The food gained regional popularity starting with cowboys who seared severed calf parts over campfires on castration day." |
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| "buy bull parts primarily from Costa Rica and New Zealand, where fattened bulls typically are slaughtered at about 2 years old. The United States, by contrast, slaughters mostly steers, unburdened of their parts as calves on the range; the comparatively few bulls shipped to packing houses in this country are older and their parts tougher" |
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| "Head cook Dennis Guffy has sliced, breaded and fried perhaps 400 tons of bull testicles during his 30 years at Bruce's, he said. But there's one oversized specimen he keeps whole and wrapped under plastic in a deep freezer: a 2-pounder that comes out only for show." |
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| "Sam Arnold, founder of The Fort in Morrison, a restaurant famous for its Old West cuisine, writes in 'The Fort Cookbook' that the eating of testicles is a tradition dating to ancient Rome." |
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| By, Bob O. "A Delicacy found in Rocky Mountains is Jumping in Price --- Supply can't Meet Demand; Pfizer Says Bull to Rumor about Ingredient in Viagra." Wall Street Journal: 1. Mar 12 1999. ProQuest. Web. 16 May 2013 . |
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| "Prices have shot up by 30% in the last month as supplies have shrunk." |
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| "And no one is quite sure why they are suddenly hard to find. From the restaurants that serve them to the packers who supply them, a swirl of stories, each more fantastic than the next, seeks to explain the phenomenon." |
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| "Rocky Mountain oysters are, in fact, bull testicles. Typically served sliced, breaded and deep-fried, they have a springy consistency and a surprisingly mild flavor." |
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| "When the Denver Broncos recently faced the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl, Denver Mayor Wellington Webb staked a generous supply of Rocky Mountain oysters in a wager against his Atlanta counterpart, who put up peaches and peanuts." |
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| "'They say Pfizer is buying them up to use in making Viagra,' Mr. Andrade said." |
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| "Asked about the rumor, Pfizer Inc. spokeswoman Mariann Caprino groaned, 'Not again. There are no bull testicles in Viagra. It's not an ingredient in any drug we have on the market.'" |
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| "Another meat-packer who asked not to be identified suggests that demand has skyrocketed since Denver's Coors Field began selling the dish at baseball games. But Linda Koester, co-owner of D&L Meats Co., Sterling, Colo., which supplies bull testicles to the stadium, says stadium sales are brisk but still small on an overall scale. Ms. Koester, who says the shortage has forced her to import Australian bull testicles, suggests that perhaps foreign buyers are swamping the market." |
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| "Steve Kay, publisher of the Cattle Buyers Weekly newsletter, apologetically offers a more mundane answer. Since three years ago, when many ranchers killed most older bulls to bring in fresh blood, he says, the annual bull slaughter has shrunken dramatically." |
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| Reports, Staff. "Deaths." Tulsa World: 0. Sep 04 2006. ProQuest. Web. 16 May 2013 . |
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| "Bruce Ruth, the entrepreneur who made Rocky Mountain Oysters famous, died Aug. 23 following a stroke." |
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| "He's the one who really got the town of Severance on the map because of the Rocky Mountain oysters." |
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| "Stories vary on whether early customers knew what they were getting. According to a 1983 story in Choice magazine, Ruth told his customers the oysters came from the nearby Poudre River. 'That worked fine until a family from Florida stopped by, ordered oysters and the children wanted the shells to take home for souvenirs.'" |
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| "Word spread and travelers came from around the world, including celebrities like Julia Roberts and football's John Elway." |
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| "Ruth relied on local meatpacking plants for the raw material, but later had to line up supplies from international cattle ranchers as he sold up to two tons of 'Bruce's World Famous Rocky Mountain Oysters' every month." |
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| "Rocky Mountain oysters." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 May. 2013. Web. 17 May. 2013. |
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| The main reason for castration is not necessarily for culinary purposes. |
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Not for cooking?! |
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| "Castration in veterinary practice and animal husbandry is common and serves a variety of purposes, including the control of breeding, the growth of skeletal muscle suitable for beef, and temperament alteration." |
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| "A few other deceptive terms, such as "cowboy caviar", "Montana tendergroins", "dusted nuts", "bull fries" or "swinging beef" may be used." |
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| "In Oklahoma and North Texas, they are sometimes called calf fries but only if taken from very young animals." |
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| http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/01/03/bull-testicle-beer-to-be-sold-later-this-month/ |
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| "A Colorado brewery that created a limited-run beer flavored with bull testicles for a beer festival is making the ballsy move to offer it all year round." |
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| "The Denver-based brewery first served the beer --originally meant as an April Fools' joke--at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver back in October. |
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| "Made with 25 lbs of roasted bull gonads, the beer masters said they wanted to showcase a local delicacy --deep-fried bull testicles, also known as Rocky Mountain oysters." |
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| "The idea to actually brew the bull testicle beer wasn't too much of a stretch for Wynkoop after a spoof video promoting the fictional beer made for April Fools' Day last year became a hit among brewers and bloggers. But getting it approved by the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau wasn't so easy." |
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| "After hitting some snags, the agency recently approved the brewery’s label for the beer, which describes the brew as “a luscious, uniquely ballsy stout with notes of roasted barley, coffee and nuts.” |
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| "Initially, they wanted us to provide some information on bull testicles as a food additive," Jones told Westword. "I am not sure they were aware that bull testicles are an actual food and that they are a regional delicacy out West." |
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