Posted by Hannah Howard, June 3, 2008 at 2:45 PM
A ball was had last weekend at the Black Gold Cattle Company's eighth annual Testicle Festival in Woodruff, Utah. Or rather, 250 pounds of balls.
During branding time, it is customary to neuter the young bulls and feast on the resulting delicacy—word has it the meat is unexpectedly juicy and tastes a bit like chicken. The bull testicles go by the more appetizing moniker Rocky Mountain Oysters, or "cowboy caviar." Nut Specialists dipped the "oysters" into beer batter and deep-fried them in lard. The "caviar" came with a cheeseburger and fries for a reasonable $5.
The festivities paid tribute to cowboy traditions—rodeo events like bull riding took place beside the joyous fried-testicle consumption—and raised almost $30,000 for charity.
Previously
Last year's Testicle Festival in Wisconsin
Get Over It: There's a Penis Restaurant in China
Posted by Robyn Lee, March 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM
The Salt Lake Tribune thought it would be fun to get top Utah chefs to taste test military MREs (Meal, Ready to Eat) and capture their priceless expressions on film. The result is about three minutes of chefs unhappily poking at lumpy piles in various shades of brown that are meant to taste like familiar dishes, such as "pork rib" or "cheese and vegetable omelet," but taste more like Spam and nitrates.
Of course, accuracy of flavor isn't the military's highest concern when formulating a product that "has to be able to withstand an airdrop from thousands of feet, last in storage at temperatures of 100 degrees for six months, and sate the ravenous hunger of—and provide a full day's worth of calories for—a U.S. Marine, for example, after a hard day at war," but it's still amusing. Watch the pained faces of the chefs, after the jump.
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