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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 24, 2010 - 12:15am PT
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I went to a Christmas BBQ today where all kine local foods were served: Smoked goat meat, Kalua Pig, BBQd donkey, and Rocky Mountain Oysters. I'd heard about the "oysters" for a long time but never had the opportunity to savor (LOL!) them until today. As you can see in the photo below, they are little lumps of flesh which when BBQed resemble other kinds of meat.
Well looking at them is one thing, but trying them is another... But guys say that they taste good so why not? I mean, it's like a vasectomy, right?: The IDEA of someone cutting down by one's jewels is WAY WORSE than the reality...
Then I got my first surge of testosterone..., and I REALLY GOT CARNIVOROUS!
The texture wasn't as firm as ordinary meat, and they had a softer, almost mushy interior. But I did have seconds and thirds...
Any other experiences or questions? Please post 'em up!
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:19am PT
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We have a Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival nearby......Or we did.
I'm ambivalent.
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nature
climber
Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:20am PT
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what's the mercury content of the shellfish?
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:22am PT
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Alleged shellfish.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 12:23am PT
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Probably low-to-no mercury since these are herbivorus animals...
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:25am PT
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nuts about nuts
AKA calf fries
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:27am PT
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Boo,
Isn't that supposed to be a delicacy? How come it is offered on a paper plate?
Ken
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 12:34am PT
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Ken: It's just local style around the fire! They are tough paniolos!! (cowboys)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:44am PT
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Remember supersize me? What do you think would happen if all you ate for a month was RMO. By the way I have dabbled....not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:55am PT
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I had some at this spot just out of Lander, Wyoming. They were pretty good and Im a picky eater.
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nature
climber
Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:02am PT
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but it's an oyster!
close relative to the Owens Valley Oyster if I'm not mistaken.
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john hansen
climber
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:02am PT
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Boodog,,
You are a braver man than me,,
I know plenty ranch people on the Big Island and have been offered these treats many times,,
The Kalaniopio's , Hoopai's, Greenwell's,,, and in Hamakua, all the portagee's ,, the De rego's , De freitas, the Souza's and Nobriega'z , the Carvahloe's,.the Motta's,, ect
We go up Mana road sometimes to Makala hau and Hania poi and hang out for the weekend at the old Parker ranch bunk houses,,
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:07am PT
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Up here - well, in Saskatchewan anyway - they're known as prairie oysters.
Another such delicacy is the CPR Strawberry: http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/cpr-strawberry-tf/
(The CPR being our trans-Canada railway, finished in 1886. It took four or more days from Vancouver to the east, and so 'strawberries' were helpful for passengers' digestion.)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:28am PT
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The smooth organ fest lives!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:29am PT
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I'm ambivalent.
You mean you, like, sometimes dress up in high heels and fantasize about testicles?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 02:49am PT
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The Fest may live, but the organs do not!!
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 03:13am PT
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Bulls balls...oh yeah, and a Mexican "Caballero" friend of mine told me the scrotum sack is then saved, blown into like a balloon, then tied off and dried to be used as water gourds out in the field.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2010 - 07:59am PT
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Did you lick them before you ate them?
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 08:17am PT
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No licking! Just chewing!
A friend laughed, telling me she had much more experience with such things than I! Of course, she was right.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 08:26am PT
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You mean you, like, sometimes dress up in high heels and fantasize about testicles?
Hmmm. Naw. No fantasizing. ;-)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 08:41am PT
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Well anyway, Piton. Let's just tell Ken Booperson here, "at least that is a good start". We have to be encouraging in all things here on ST. Shows talent I would also suggest.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 24, 2010 - 09:10am PT
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Sometimes, when castrating cows, I've been known to keep them and take them home and fry them up. I bread them with panko and serve them with bulldog sauce, which is sort of like a thick, sweet worcestershire. Good stuff!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2010 - 09:13am PT
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Aya,
you castrate cows?????
I thought you could only do that with bulls.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 24, 2010 - 11:58am PT
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It's a vet thing. We might not understand. Or maybe she hasn't gotten to the cow/bull thing yet.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:10pm PT
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Boo, hell yeah I've eaten them!!
Get this bro, when we would castrate reindeer in western Alaska from the big herds, we would have buckets of the things to take home.
Castration seems harsh, but is more humane than the old method of simply crushing them between a couple rocks.......
Kinda makes yer skin crawl don't it?
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:10pm PT
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I point you to definition 2:
cow noun \ˈkau̇\
1. a : the mature female of cattle (genus Bos)
b : the mature female of various usually large animals (as an elephant, whale, or moose)
2 : a domestic bovine animal regardless of sex or age
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 12:34pm PT
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Thanks, Peter! One of the endearing aspects of life on the Taco Stand is how folks here are always supporting others for expanding our lives' horizons. Here, no one would ever say that you can't teach an old Dawg new trix!
Survival: Why were you picking on the poor reindeer? Over-grazing? Not enough hunters/wolves?
Speaking of definitions, this is a bit OT, but just so we don't get too serious on this thread:
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked reader to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here is one of the 2005 winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:39pm PT
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Survival: Why were you picking on the reindeer? Over-grazing? Not enough hunters/wolves?
HA!!
Boo, these are "domestic" and commercial herds.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 24, 2010 - 12:47pm PT
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Funny how there is only one non-male posting to this thread, but one who can legitimately claim a professional interest in the subject. I'd have thought that the LEB, for example, would be fascinated by the subject.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:00pm PT
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And willing to "steer" us in the right direction...
All you could eat every spring at the Lumberjack Saloon, outside of Lolo Montana...for two bucks.
Doesn't Rock Creek have a testical festival? Yikes.
Used to covet the t-shirt, "you can have a ball at the Livingston Bar and Grill" and featured a cartoon bull holding its package.
Had 'em at the Proud Cut in Cody, WY too. They were unusually large there. Very proud, I'd say.
If you beat a hot dog flat, and, breaded it, fried it, probably taste fairly similar. Texture would be spot on, methinks...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 24, 2010 - 01:01pm PT
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Apparently in Oz land, kangaroo testicles are popular savoury cuisine, as I understand primarily eaten by women. And there are no puns intended in this post.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 03:55pm PT
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Survival: Thanks for the clarification. I was visualizing the caribou migration footage from the Planet Earth series, and couldn’t figure out how castration fit into that picture!
Like you, Anders, I was noticing the different Male:Female ratio on this thread from “normal” ones.
Brian: I think you nailed the texture with “beating the wiener” tho their BBQ flavor would be different from them fried, me thinks!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2010 - 05:01pm PT
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Aya, did definition 2 come from Vulgarian Digest?
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 24, 2010 - 05:07pm PT
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Ron, I'm not old enough to know what the Vulgarian Digest is!!! ;)
It's merriam webster. Cow.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 05:11pm PT
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Female posting here...
Blargh! I can't even even chicken if there is a bone in it. Can't peel shrimp. DEFINITELY won't touch a fish that has eyes, fins, and other body parts. I am a very light-weight carnivore. I KNOW I couldn't be in a dwelling where oysters were slipping down throats. Gnarl.
You are all tougher folks than I.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 24, 2010 - 05:15pm PT
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I refuse to eat the testicles/sex organs of any creature. Unless its cat clitorus of course...
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 05:51pm PT
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Aya: Thanks so much for posting that recipe article though I admit that seeing the raw oysters nearly grossed me out and are far less appetizing than the BBQed ones in my pic.
BTW, the V.D., as perhaps you know, was a rather low-brow climbing rag that came out of the Gunks in the late 60’s. Not sure if anyone has scanned and posted any of the issues here on the Taco Stand.
Crimpergirl: Having eaten those oysters yesterday, I can’t imagine them, “slipping down” anyone’s throat, anywhere, anytime!
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 24, 2010 - 06:19pm PT
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Not slippery? Chewy? Crunchy?
Yikes.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2010 - 06:29pm PT
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Well,.. I don't believe they have bones in them.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 24, 2010 - 06:31pm PT
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boodawg - as a gunkie, I am quite familiar with the vd... have seen many issues... i was just joking around (I'm not actually that young!!)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 24, 2010 - 06:42pm PT
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Aya, by taco standards you are still wet behind the ears.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2010 - 07:04pm PT
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Crimpergirl: The raw ones that are shown in Aya’s link to the recipes look slippery. I would say chewy unless that are over-cooked; then they’d probably get crunchy or just rock-hard-tough!
Ron’s right: No bones!
Who KNOWS about parrots? How would they ever get the chance to eat them?
Aya: I couldn’t see how you could be from NY and NOT know about the V.D., but I guess I’m too trusting, taking people at their word. I’ve run into that before here, and I’m OK with it, preferring to err on the side of trust rather than skepticism & suspicion. Thanks for clarifying tho.
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 24, 2010 - 09:04pm PT
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They are QUITE slippery; they have a tough outer membrane (tunic) that you need to cut through before the soft tissue of the inside sort of bursts out. You don't want to eat the tunic, that would be gross - the testis itself is soft and really really oystery. It's so weird, I never get over it.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 25, 2010 - 12:36am PT
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It takes Balls, to eat those things!
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Dec 25, 2010 - 12:01pm PT
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Ron-
"did you lick them first?"
hilarious!
(and hey, can you fit the whole thing in your mouth?)
Someone should post this one on a Friday night while drinking, just to see where it goes...
On an unrelated note- merry kwanza ya'll
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 25, 2010 - 05:51pm PT
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So is it true that Santa's sac has a lot of presence?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Dec 25, 2010 - 06:06pm PT
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Good one Ron!
Tough....membrane...blargh. Again, you are all tougher than I.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Dec 26, 2010 - 12:15am PT
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Take heart, Crimpie ! I heard if you open them up...there's a pearl inside !
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Dec 31, 2010 - 01:36pm PT
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First time was on a Spanish Land Grant ranch near Lompoc. It had dwindled over seven generations to only 15,000 acres, but the four-square-mile canyon I lived in had one dirt road to three houses. I was trading childcare for rent to a former Rolling Stone editor who had married into the family. But that's a different story.
We had kind of a non-traditional roundup. Well, one cowboy on a horse was a normal-enough start, but then came the 80-year-old patriarch on a Honda 50, and The Editor bouncing across the field in a BMW. The rest of us just ran along on foot, but we penned the yearlings and the ranchers coached enough help out of us greenhorns to git'er done. Then it was lunchtime. Damn, they were good!
Then just last summer, on the road to Valentine (sic), Nebraska (you just can't make up stuff like this), I pulled into a local, non-franchise fast food dive. Couldn't quite believe it, but up there on the menu wall between (as it were) the burgers and hot dogs, they had Rocky Mountain Oysters, a plate of a dozen.
Every bit as good as I remembered.
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