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Post by joew on Jan 19, 2007 15:04:59 GMT -5
Yeah! He'll eat anything! ;D
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Post by mike on Jan 19, 2007 18:42:45 GMT -5
The first man to eat a Rocky Mountain Oyster was:
a. The recipient of a cruel prank by his fellow cattle rustlers.
b. Drunk
c. It was part of the Old West style of punishment for crimes committed on the prairie.
d. Drunk (listed twice because it's the most likely reason)
e. It was all part of a dare... and drinking was involved.
f. Wishbone, the regular cook on the cattle drive became ill and was replaced by Armand, the Chef from the Café Bouef. He could not find snails on the trail so he improvised... thus, the prairie oysters (Rocky Mountain Oysters) was served to unsuspecting cowhands. I heard there were cheers of delight around the camp fire that night, Viva La France!
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Post by booklady on Jan 19, 2007 18:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 19, 2007 21:50:21 GMT -5
I did take a bite or two of the fried ones. They taste like the leanest beef you ever ate. And tender too.
They can be good with rapscallions, joe.
Just don't think I wanna do it again. Guess I got too much respect.
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 19, 2007 21:59:27 GMT -5
The 'rat just told me that at supper time he has hung onto his nether parts ever since.
I'd never do anything like that to him.
I'd have to hire out for help.
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Post by booklady on Jan 19, 2007 22:08:10 GMT -5
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 19, 2007 22:57:37 GMT -5
Heehee. Sometimes in order to be good creatures you just gotta sacrifice.
Everybody's heard of hors de oeurves and what Babe called them.
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Post by Tillie on Jan 20, 2007 3:30:22 GMT -5
Regular oysters in season are bettah eating! I like my oysters so fresh that when I squeeze a lil' lemon on them, they jump!
Prairie Oysters: "Raw eggs with a dash of Worcestershire sauce mixed up with a fountain pen!"
Rocky Mountain Oysters: Take the testicles of a bull, peel, coat with Powdermilk Biscuit Flour, pepper and salt, then deep fry! In Montana I ate one and I liked the batter bettah - the taste was a cross between snails and chicken with a dash of snake! They say some men eat Rocky Mountain Oysters as an aphrodisiac.
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 20, 2007 13:07:08 GMT -5
UffDah, Till. The Chef eats raw oysters but she just sucks them down and I don't understand the idea of that. One could ingest nearly anything if they didn't have to chew and taste it.
I once ate fresh razor clams from the beach in WA. They were torn from their shells alive, dredged and thrown into the frying pan where they appeared to try to wiggle their way out.
They were delicous. But that memory.
And we in the Midwest don't think a lot of eating clams. What we've got here may or may not be good to eat. I don't know.
We buy dead oysters in season and make oyster stew which is mostly cream and butter with a little seasoning. I like the taste of the broth but don't like the texture of oysters. Once one of the kids found a baby crab attached to an oyster in his stew! His grandma was shocked but the rest of us thought it interesting.
Back when The Chef was working her way up the ladder she cooked at Red Lobster. When someone would order a whole lobster she'd hand it to a coworker and actually leave the kitchen until it had died in the boiling water. She said they made a screaming sound when you put them into the water. She also told me that it had something to do with releasing air from their shells but that it was too unnerving for her.
When she wants fresh lobster she puts it into the freezer to "go to sleep" first. Mercy. I'm glad I don't have to murder my own meat and am getting to be less and less of a meat eater as I mature. (That means "getting old.")
Wonder if I could eat meat at all if I had to kill the creatures. Maybe if I had young people to feed.
I love pork and am upset to think that the creatures are smarter than dogs but that here nobody thinks a thing of killing them to eat and that we are just totally offended by people who eat dog or cat.
I picked up a package of pork once which was blood red and asked the butcher about it. He told me that when the animals are frightened sometimes the meat will be like that. I put the package down.
Guess I've told you guys about watching the deaths of my pet chickens and how difficult Sunday dinners became for me wondering which of my dears I was eating that day. They came when I called them, had names, sat in my lap to be petted. Not amazingly bright but my sweeties nonetheless. Guess I had no clue what my dad's intentions were regarding their flesh.
I love veal and haven't eaten it for decades. That was ever since I learned how the little calves are prepared for market.
A silly: I was packing to go to Sturgis, yet one more time, and our neighbors had had a lawn service out to spray their lawn.
There was a dead squirrel lying in our lawn and my neighbor to the other side hailed me across the fence and asked me to pick it up and take it to the Environmental Protection Agency. Yeah. Like I wanted to get into the middle of that.
But to keep the peace I took a plastic bag, put the dead creature in it, and put it into the freezer to think about later.
During our trip I forgot about it and it remained in the freezer for some months.
One day The 'rat was looking for some meat to thaw out and found it. He wondered if I had planned to feed it to him. Such laughter. Life is an amusing thing.
Heh. Had no idea that I was going to wax so political.
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Post by joew on Jan 20, 2007 13:55:25 GMT -5
I've put a fair number of lobsters into boiling water, and I don't hear them scream. But I put them in head first. OTOH, they don't have lungs, so I don't know how they could scream even if they went in tail first.
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 20, 2007 14:27:32 GMT -5
joe, I think Sarah said it had something to do with a release of air under their shells but was still unnerving.
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 20, 2007 14:29:07 GMT -5
Holy thit, man! How can you put something with a face into boiling water?
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Post by booklady on Jan 20, 2007 14:40:41 GMT -5
Holy thit, man! How can you put something with a face into boiling water? Don't know why, but this post nearly had me spitting my Girl Scout Cookies at the monitor, it made me laugh so hard.
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Jan 20, 2007 21:31:22 GMT -5
Still waiting for our Girl Scout cookies here. . .
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Post by gailkate on Jan 29, 2007 19:47:44 GMT -5
There are Girl Scout cookies already? I thought they came in March. When I was a girl, they came in March, which was the right and proper time. I thought everyone knew that.
So glad you switched to a delectable topic. This thread is sucky-yuck.
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