Beware of holiday potlucks

[veronica_rich]

Maybe you should follow the advice of one commenter on this page and just eat what you and your bestest-known friends take to any holiday parties.

I hate you so much for showing me this, crevette. With the force of a thousand white-hot suns. Really.

ETA for quote from lulu.com: "To relegate semen to the role of “supporting actor” is like asking Tobey Macguire to play an extra in a film for 3 to 15 seconds." I hate men.

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[komandant-krech.livejournal.com]

There must be something seriously wrong with my head because I find that book highly amusing :D :D It would match perfectly with this another cookbook that involved nothing but recipes based on balls (bull's and ram's balls, that is, not human :P). Then, to be fair (and in the spirit of Dala's and Veronica's comments above), we need of course another one with recipes based on breast milk. Or how about something made of menstrual excretion? Blood is rich with iron and proteins, after all! "You want me to eat your five days old spunk? Try this one first, darling!"

Eh-hee.

/lol, am I gross today... ^__^

[pktaxwench.livejournal.com]

Rocky Mountain Oysters are a delicacy here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters

Yes, people do eat them. From Wiki....


Rocky Mountain oysters (sometimes called prairie oysters) is a North American culinary name for edible offal, specifically buffalo, boar, or bull testicles. They are usually peeled, coated in flour, pepper and salt, sometimes pounded flat, then deep-fried. This delicacy is most often served as an appetizer.[1]

It is a well-known novelty dish in parts of the American West and the Canadian Prairies where cattle ranching is prevalent ("prairie oysters" is the preferred name in Canada, where they may be served in a demi-glace, not deep-fried)[2]. In Oklahoma and North Texas, they are sometimes called calf fries but only if taken from very young bulls. [3]. In Spain and many parts of Mexico they are referred to as "criadillas" and are colloquially referred to as huevos del toro (literally, "bull’s eggs" but huevos is also a Spanish slang term for testicles) in Central and South America.[4] Rocky Mountain oysters are sometimes confused with lamb fries or animelles (lamb testicles), which are served in a manner similar to Rocky Mountain oysters. A few other descriptive terms, such as "cowboy caviar," "Montana tendergroins," or "swinging beef," may be used.[5]

The dish, purportedly cowboy fare[6], is most commonly found served at festivals, such as the ones in Montana and Phoenix, Arizona, amongst ranching families, or at certain eating establishments and bars.[7] Eagle, Idaho, claims to have the "World's Largest Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed" during its Eagle Fun Days (typically the first weekend in June).[8] Usually this meat product is sold frozen, as it is inconvenient to get them fresh.[9]

The primary goal of testicle removal is not necessarily culinary. Castration in veterinary practice and animal husbandry is common and serves a variety of purposes, including the control of breeding, the growth of skeletal muscle suitable for beef, and temperament alteration.[10]

[ainsoph15.livejournal.com]

LOL, balls are something of a speciality over here in the UK, though we give them the less offputting name of 'sweetbreads'. That can refer to edible glands in general, though, like the thyroid as well. They're actually both rather tasty ;D

Also, there's something of a thing nowadays for people to eat their own placenta after they've given birth. Highly nutritious, apparently... But still. EWWW. That's the acceptable face of cannibalism *g*