Testicle cooking contest

[lookinginuk (imported)]

i have just been on the sun newspaper website and in the wierd world on wednesday section i saw the testicle cooking contest and just wondered where they got them from

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ad ... l?offset=7

[kristoff]

i have just been on the sun newspaper website and in the wierd world on wednesday section i saw the testicle cooking contest and just wondered where they got them from

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ad ... l?offset=7

Former rams, bulls, boars... whatever the local cuisine desires or demands.

[Paolo]

Organ meat!

Low in carbs, high in nutrients.

Gotta love it.

[Dave (imported)]

A standard cooking test is "organ meat" or "offal" or "sweetmeats" or whatever you want to call the stuff that is inside an animal and delicious if you know how to cook it.

The CIA (no, not Central intelligence but Culinary Institute of America) teaches classes in organ meat.

What the hell do people think liver and onions is? Or tongue? Or tripe? Or that funky green stuff in whole lobsters?

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Yes, yes, yes, but I am much, much more interested in testicles than I am in the inside of a lobster. --FLO--

[Sweetpickle (imported)]

I have been to a few restuarants that serve them called;

"mountain oysters", "calf frys", "lamb frys"

They're a big deal in some small towns in ranch country.

[JesusA (imported)]

From the morning paper:

Have a ball at Serbia's testicle cooking contest

Chefs cook up bull, camel and kangaroo testicles while public figures including Barack Obama are honoured for being 'ballsy'

The Guardian (UK)

Sunday 29 August 2010

In a remote Serbian mountain village, chefs are cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch and sometimes taste as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.

"This festival is all about fun, food and bravery," said Ljubomir Erovic, the Serbian chef who organises the event in Ozrem and has published a testicle cookery book. The food politely called "white kidneys" in Serbian is believed to be rich in testosterone. In the Balkans, it is considered to help men's libido.

"The bulls' testicles are the best, goulash-style," said last year's winner, Zoltan Levai, stirring a metal pot heated by a wood fire and filled with vegetables and large testicles that he said were provided from a state-run slaughterhouse.

The festival includes dishes such as testicle pizza and testicles in bechamel sauce flavoured with a variety of herbs found in the region. Visitors eat the dishes with plenty of wine or beer, and the stalls also sell roasted pig or lamb "as a side dish".

"I came here last year, and decided to come back," said Anna Wexler, an Israeli citizen originally from New York who is now a member of the festival's jury. "It was delicious. There was testicle moussaka, goulash, stallion, boar, bull and many other things."

The festival also gives prizes to those who have made the news for being "ballsy". This year one of the unsuspecting winners was Barack Obama. "He's the bravest man in the world," said Erovic. "Obama took over the world at the most difficult economic and political times. He showed he has balls."

The other prize went to the US pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who last year glided a passenger jet into the Hudson river in New York rather than risk crashing into a densely populated area.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... ampionship

The original site has photographs and is well worth checking.

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[Dave (imported)]

lightly breaded, sauted in butter with morels and garnished with truffles...