Prairie oysters

[D Hagens]

Been wondering something, has anyone eaten these before. 8)

I was reading a book and it was talking about cowboys eating prairie oysters so I Googled it and thought maybe it was a joke but as we all know the internet never lies. :D

So any good recipes out there? :D

[fishpharmer]

D Hagens, I castrated three bull calves this afternoon.  If I knew you was interested I would put them on ice and sent em to you.  Oh well, my dog likes em like the saltwater water oysters, raw.

I can honestly say I have never had the least bit of interest in eating that sorta thing no matter how good a recipe.  There's too much good eating above that part of the anatomy IMO. ;D

[WildDog]

D Hagens We call them Bush oysters, I don't eat them but I seen calves stones sliced and crumbed, not for me.

I have had a lot of lamb stones in my mouth but never got around to swallowing them.  At a Jackaroo school I worked at we would castrate ram lambs by cutting the tip of the purse and extract the "Stones" with a good grip of your teath, quicker than the hook knife and less chance of tetnas than rings, we had been doing it for a couple of days and there was an obnoxious city youth on the course that was giving others a hard time, so the following day when we were marking some older bull calves, we kept back from the previous branding for this course, we threw the 1st and one of the largest bullcalfs, I cut the end off the sack and said, to him "Same as yesterday with the lambs" it was a mouthfull to say the least. He learn't to take a joke that day not just give it. ;)

[Sprucegum]

Prairie Oysters are a heck of a lot better than those slimy things that come out of a shell in the water! I only had them once but I remember them as being quite tasty after a hot dusty day. They were rolled in flour, fried in butter and sliced into a sandwich and washed down with a cold beer.

Those were the days..

[fishpharmer]

Wilddog, I learned something new.  Except I usually don't have that many to fix at
a time to use your extra time saving advice.  Maybe I should start freezing them and take orders. :D

[Norm]

I've had calf, hog, lamb and turkey fries. Hands down the turkey fries were the best....and I don't plan on eating them again.  :D

[jdtuttle]

When I lived in Montana we called em Rocky Mountain Oysters. I used to help a rancher in the spring round-up. They would cook them in butter & garlic over an open fire. Pretty good. Of course we used to eat rattle snake too.  ;)
jim

[Kansas]

We used to have mountain oyster fries years ago. Turkey, pig, and calf. We usually had some catfish to go with it. Back then, they were easy to come by, at least as far as the pig and calf. Now, there are virtually no hogs anywhere around here. And what calves don't get taken care of at birth, they use a Callicrate bander on. Almost nothing is knife cut anymore. Had a lot of good times at those parties.
I haven't noticed lately, but up to a year or so ago, the American Legion also held them around here. The local restaurant still does.
There was a fair amount of beer used to wash them down with.

[D Hagens]

Very interesting! I never thought about hogs, lamb, turkey but I guess if they gottem you can eatem. :D

[fishpharmer]

Kansas, when you got them from the Catfish I hope you didn't waste the good meat.  Testes removal in catfish is very invasive and usually fatal. :D :D ;)

[Kansas]

There was a reason for putting catfish on the menu. It seems the women we invited back then did not look favorably on eating mountain oysters. So we always had catfish for them. Of course, usually someone of the onery variety would fool a young woman into thinking an oyster was a piece of catfish.

Did I mention that I got slapped a time or two at those parties?

[Magicman]

Hands down the turkey fries were the best....and I don't plan on eating them again.  :D

Turkey fries are good, but rooster fries are better.  (I probably won't eat them again either... :D )

[DanG]

I likes to eat a little higher on the hog than that! :

[Tom]

Sooeeeeeeee!   Those look Smackin' good.   ;D

You need to send a jar of them to TRanger and request that he Bar-b-Cue them.  :D :D

[Gary_C]

I likes to eat a little higher on the hog than that! :

You like them pig ears?  ???

Dog Treats

[Tom]

Hey!  What're they throwing that good stuff to the dogs for? :-\

[D Hagens]

DanG, pigs lips?? Is this real??

I thought pigs had snouts?

What next, a jar of pigs tails. :D

[DanG]

Yep, it's for real. :D  I ain't never seen pig tails pickled, but they sell them fresh in the meat case, along with ears, feet, and some other parts you probably don't want to think about.  I call it "The Parts Department." ;D :D

[fishpharmer]

D Hagens, you really need to get out more often ;) :D

[D Hagens]

I do get out. We went eagle watching today, lots of dead fish but nothing that looked to tempting to eat so we just sat at Kilby Lake and had hot dogs instead. 8)

[DanG]

Hot dogs?  Ever wonder what they're made of? :D :D :D

We're mostly just funning with you D, but this stuff is really out there on the shelves in some of our stores.  I bought a couple of jars of the pig lips to use as gag gifts at Christmas, and they might even make somebody gag. ;D :D :D

I love taking visitors to the local markets where the "parts dept" has things that are foreign to most of them.  We have a large population of Mexican and Guatemalen people here, and our stores provide for their somewhat different tastes.  One of the more obvious items is cow heads, which are always present in the freezer case.  A few years ago, after a lunch of hot dogs, I took a pair of 9 year old Granddaughters to the store with me, and we perused the "parts dept".  They were fascinated with the cow heads.  After we got home, we were just sitting around enjoying the visit and the subject came up amid much laughter.  One of them had noticed that the cow heads had no eyeballs, so she asked me what had happened to them.  I told them that they make hot dogs out of them.  That was followed by the most heartfelt chorus of "Eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww" you have ever heard! :D :D :D :D

[Magicman]

Hot dogs, vienna sausage, potted meat, etc.....It's all washed off of the bones with a pressure washer.

I'll just stick with "chicken lips"...... :D

[D Hagens]

Yup! DanG I've heard of what they are made of......nuff too make ya vomit.  I was raised on a farm and have worked in hatcheries sexing chicks, poultry processing plants and I still eat meat. 8)
But still to this day I will not drink milk from the store, I've seen what gets injected in to cows and even the vet told me to stay away from milk less it comes from a cow that's kept away from the heard.

[WDH]

Sooeeeeeeee!   Those look Smackin' good.   ;D

You need to send a jar of them to TRanger and request that he Bar-b-Cue them.  :D :D

TRanger invited me to his house for dinner tonight, and thankfully we did not have pickled pig lips, just good old Texas steak .  Thankfully  :D :D.

[Texas Ranger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNf9t8R-ZWo

Thanks, Merle