Big Ride Across America (SF Chron writer goes to MT Testicle Festival)

SF Chronicle ^ | 7/11/06 | Steve Rubenstein

[T-Bird45]

Success, which spoils things, has most surely changed the time-honored menu of the great Testicle Festival.

"It's not the same anymore,'' moped Bob Zeier, a 75-year-old retired cattle rancher, sitting in the Ryegate Bar and Cafe and dragging on a Camel filter. "Not the same at all. A bull testicle is just not the same as a calf testicle.''

[T-Bird45]

I absolutely have to agree with Bob Zeier that there is a significant taste difference between calf and bull testicles. Personally, I always preferred lamb fries that my dad helped a farmer harvest every spring and brought home to cook for the family when I was a kid. Today, it is not even done with a knife -- they use rubber-band like emasculator rings where the blood supply is cut off and the testicles drop off in the pasture.

[NeoCaveman]

San Fran Chronicle? I figured they would have sent Mark Morford...

[austinaero]

OUCH!!!!

[capt. norm]

"Mmmmmm! Testicles."

[Mr. Brightside]

[SmithL]

Morford's at the Castro District's Testicle Festivle every night.

[finnman69]

"A fresh calf testicle tastes like lobster,'' said Zeier. "You never had anything like it.''

I bet a lot of guys in SF say that.

[bk1000]

I have heard this is done, but I can not imagine actually eating one of those things! I don't care what they taste like, there are some things you just don't eat. I am not surprised, however, that an article about eating testicles would appear in a San Francisco newspaper.

[Doctor Raoul]

Strange, SF Chronicle writers don't have testicles. That's why they write for the SF Chronicle.

[politicalwit]

MT Testicle Festival

Empty Testicle Festival...I thought you meant the Senate was in session.

[Shimmer128]

Such a gourmet, such refined tastes!!!!


excuse me a moment (barf!)

[Izzy Dunne]

"A fresh calf testicle tastes like lobster,'' said Zeier.

You never hear folks here in Maine talk about how lobster tastes just like calf testicles.

[Iowa Granny]

Call your dad and ask him how they collected those lamb fries in the 'Olden Days'.

[nmh]

Bet the homos love to eat testicles.

They probably view it a glandular therapy that will make them more "impressive" to other homos.

[eeriegeno]

You never hear folks here in Maine talk about how lobster tastes just like calf testicles.

Is this a thread about the delicacy of mountain oysters??????

[cherry]

I've never been, but since I live a state away, I've heard plenty of stories about the Testicle festival....its a real happening and is quite wild with bikers, and music and nudity and other stuff.....sort of like a western Woodstock in its permissibility....so I've heard...

[SmithL]

Strange, SF Chronicle writers don't have testicles. That's why they write for the SF Chronicle.

Morford's have batteries

[elkfersupper]

Maybe he can acquire a pair for his own use.

By the way, calf fries are delicious>

I used to gobble them up right off the branding iron fire.

Wrestle 'em down, castrate 'em, de-horn 'em, vaccinate 'em, eat their privates, eat the rest of the animal a couple of years later.

Life doesn't get any better than that.

[capt. norm]

You never hear folks here in Maine talk about how lobster tastes just like calf testicles.

Back in the mid 60's my girlfriend of the time and I got invited to a big barbecue/cookout in rural Baldwin County, Alabama where they were smoking all kinds of things. The food was all excellent and we both pigged out.

My girlfriend was doing OK until she complimented the host on two different meat servings she had on her plate. On the first one, the host remarked to his wife "See Marge, I told ya' they'd like the raccoon!"

She tried to recover her composure about asking what the other meat serving that she liked so much was...and that's when we both found out it was calf testicles.

Sounds gross now, but it was really good at the time.

[Izzy Dunne]

sitting in the Ryegate Bar and Cafe and dragging on a Camel filter.

You know, the strangest image just crossed my mind....