[Sca-cooks] Frozen penis

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 09:42 AM 6/28/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Get your minds out of the gutter!  You, in the back, stop that
>snickering!  This is a serious culinary question.
>
>I was in a local Asian grocery store last night, browsing for posible
>feast ingredients.  In the freezer case, near the squab and the
>rabbits, were packages labelled simply, "penis".  They contained
>cross-section slices about 2 inches in diameter.  I really don't think
>they'll be appearing on my feast table, but I found myself wondering
>about something.  I don't remember seeing period recipes for penis,
>though there are recipes for nearly every other part of edible
>mammals.  I've seen recipes for brains, spleen, testicles, ears, and
>tails, but none for penis.  Have I overlooked something, or is there a
>reason why this part of the anatomy would have been omitted from
>the cookbooks?  (And if it's not generally considered edible, why
>was it being sold?)  And what kind of beast was it from, anyhow?

I seem to remember a couple of years ago, during the discussion of Ras'
sheep testicles recipe, that a period recipe for bull penis came out, I
think Nanna dug it up- I'm not sure. And it might have been horse. How far
back to the archives go and/or have you looked in Nanna's cookbook? She has
some strange stuff in there...

I do remember the conversation got pretty wild and eventually Poppa had to
step in and make us stop.

'Lainie
-move along, move along, nuthin to see here, move along...
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