Cooking with Balls

Just reading makes ‘em hurt…

That’s Nuts!!!

Mmmm…Heart-Shaped Turkey Testicles. Valentine’s Day dinner! The video of him peeling them is actually quite neat.

I don’t see why people are getting spooked about eating a different piece of the same animal they’d normally eat. I guess it’s the same fear that people have over organ meats. I don’t understand it.

I’m from Calgary, Alberta, in the heartland of Canadian ranch country, and beef testicles are very common. When a calf is old enough to be branded and de-horned and if it is meant to become a steer instead of a bull, it gets castrated. The nuts aren’t left to go to waste, they get chucked into a pail of ice and are grilled for a post-branding snack. In Calgary itself we have the annual Testicle Festival, where we serve breaded deep fried calf testicles, also known as prairie oysters.

I’m quite fond of prairie oysters myself, I find them similar in texture to liver, but much lighter in colour. My favourite place serves ‘em with curry sauce! Yum.

uhhhhh, no one answered CheeseDuck yet. …whatterya skeeeert?

I like my balls raw, thank you.

Doesn’t anyone watch Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern? I didn’t even flinch when I heard about this. That man puts more balls in his mouth than the village people.

So Cheeseduck one day meet a friend, and this friend invits him in a new Spanish restaurant. “Let me order for you their special” the friend says. The waiter comes and bring a huge ball. The meat is delicious, juicy, tender, like nothing Cheeseduck has ever tasted. “well, tell me what it is!” he says. The friend answers : “see, in Spain they have bull fights, and this is a fighting bull testicle”.
Cheeseduck was surprised, but so pleased that he decided to bring his wife there over the week-end : “you’ll see it’s amazing, I’ve never eaten a meat so delicious, it was so big I had a hard time finishing it!”
So, they go to the restaurant and pass his order. The waiter comes and in the plate there only one disapointing tiny ball. Cheeseduck quickly calls back the waiter ; “excuse me, there must have been a problem, I was there earlier this week, and the serving was much bigger”
“Ah, mister, in bull fighting, it’s not always the bull that loses”

You never make ‘em touch.

For those who eat those things…would you have oral sex with bull and swallow it’s ejaculate? No? What’s the difference?

The vast majority of cultures see no point in killing an animal and throwing any of it away. Just because you hold sentimental feelings toward your balls doesn’t mean balls aren’t nutritious and delicious. Now, I’ve never had the opportunity to eat cooked balls before, but I’d probably try them, as I have heard that they’re pretty good.

In Spain, the bull’s balls are called “criadillas”. Many people like it, buy I can´t eat it because of their taste. I prefer tongues or faces of the animals (pigs, beef). They taste delicious.