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Rocky Mountain oysters or mountain oysters, [1] or meat balls, also known as prairie oysters in Canada (French: animelles), is a dish made of bull testicles. The organs are often deep-fried after being skinned, coated in flour, pepper and salt, and sometimes pounded flat. The dish is most often served as an appetizer. [2]
In English, testicles are known by a wide variety of euphemisms, including stones, Rocky Mountain oysters, and prairie oysters. [1] [3] Lamb testicles are often called lamb fries or simply fries (though that may also refer to other organ meats). [4] Euphemisms are used in many other languages.
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Rocky Mountain cuisine is a cuisine of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada; Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana in the United States. Some distinguishing dishes include bison [ 1 ] and Rocky Mountain oysters , or prairie oysters as they are known in Canada.
[6] [7] The Montana State Society has held an annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival in Clinton, Montana, since 2005. [8] Every year in September the villages of Ozrem and Lunjevica in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, host the World Gonad Cooking Championship. [9] The festival serves up a variety of testicles, including wildlife.
"Rocky Mountain oysters" are not a dish prepared with testicles, but a nickname for testicles. Similarly, "animelles" and "rognons blancs" are just French names for testicles, not the name of a specific dish. True, Rocky Mountain oysters are often breaded and deep-fried, but there are other
Platter of lamb fries. Lamb fries are lamb testicles used as food. Historically they were parboiled, cut in half, and seasoned. [1] Lamb testicles are served in a variety of cuisines, including Italian, [2] Basque, [3] breaded and fried in some barbecue restaurants, Chinese, [4] Caucasian, [5] Persian and Iranian Armenian (called donbalan), [6] and Turkish. [7]
In the 1992 novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt, prairie oysters are prepared by characters because of the purported hangover cure qualities, although they rule that it does not work. In the 1993 film Addams Family Values , Gomez Addams makes a Prairie Oyster and shakes it up in a bottle to give to his infant son after a night of ...