[Sca-cooks] Wild West Delicacy

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

They're really no worse than sweetbreads (or actual oysters, for that 
matter), at least inasmuch as I refuse to go anywhere near either of them. 
*grins*

Delicacy==really disgusting animal bits that nobody would touch if they 
weren't called a delicacy

Margaret FitzWilliam



On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Elaine Koogler wrote:

> Actually I'm not so sure that it's entirely a Western thing.  I remember my
> uncles and father talking about "mountain oysters" when I was growing up.
> It took me a number of years to realize that they hadn't found a place in
> the Shenandoah Valley where oysters grew!
>
> Kiri
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I am sure that Ras would have appreciated this:
>> Virginia City Journal Delicacy of the Wild West Lives on for Those So Bold
>> ..."the 18th annual International Comstock Mountain Oyster Fry. Classically
>> dipped in cornmeal and then fried, or artfully concealed in scrambled eggs,
>> bordelaise sauce or sushi, these oysters were not of the Chesapeake or
>> bluepoint variety but, rather, a cornerstone of Western ranching culture
>> involving testicles from gelded lambs and calves."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18oyster.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=testicles&st=cse
>>
>> Johnnae
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