Lamb testicles are cheap and tasty

[TexasTowelie]

Lamb fries, Rocky Mountain oysters, bulls' eggs, stones. It's time to lay the euphemisms to rest and tell it like it is: We eat testicles and we don't care who knows it.

Dying to know why testicles are incredible? Well for starters, they're cheap, coming in at around $3 for a pack of six medium-size lamb balls. They're also relatively low-calorie, pack a ton of protein, and are pretty damn tasty if you know what to do with them. Some even consider testicles an aphrodisiac.

We're not sure if it's the novelty factor or the actual taste, but people go wild for testicles of all kinds, including those of cows, lambs, kangaroos, roosters, and turkeys. A few years ago, Denver's Wynkoop Brewing Company offered beer brewed with 25 pounds of bull testicles, first as an April Fools joke, then as the real deal. Testicle festivals, which celebrate the consumption of a variety of testicles, are held yearly at small towns around the country -- there's even one in Zumbrota, Minnesota. And in 2012, Holy Land's head chef Samer Wadi and his brother Majdi Wadi introduced lamb fries to the Minnesota State Fair.

"We felt like lamb fries will be a unique thing to bring to the State Fair," chef Samer Wadi said. "We did not expect the attendance or the willingness of people to try it. We thought it was gonna be an iffy thing, but no way, we received a lot of good feedback ."

Wadi grew up eating lamb fries and said his father's were the best. "It's edible, it's tasty, so we get used to trying to find a use for every part of the animal," he added.



More, including a video on how to remove the membranes from the testicles, at http://blogs.citypages.com/food/2014/02/plate_or_pass_l_1.php .

[madinmaryland]

1. I just got a tingle up my leg and it was not a good feeling.

[TexasTowelie]

2. The video does sound kind of omenous, doesn't it?

This might be one of the more interesting threads in the Cooking & Baking group in awhile.

[northoftheborder]

3. Deep fried "calf fries" are good!

[MrMickeysMom]

4. I don't understand why they could be cheap… there are only so many from each animal...

Man… Why did I have to read this subject before bedtime?

[Kali]

5. the old-timers around me piled the calf nuts up on a fence post during a working

then tossed them in the coals from the branding fire

I have fried them, and there (used to be?) is a restaurant NW of Phoenix that had them on the menu. (good pies too at that place)

Too much work for what they are for me, though. Dogs love them. Always grosses out any "tourists" especially of the male variety.

[japple]

6. I remember reading about how the Bush family loved calf fries

years ago.

[fizzgig]

7. i tried rocky mountain oysters once

texture freaked me out

[sir pball]

8. I eat a lot of offal..

Sweetbreads, tripe, whole pig heads, (some) liver, heart, brain...but I categorically, absolutely, without exception will not eat kidney or balls. I didn't even have to try them twice, once was enough to make sure I gag at either.