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Diners can 'have a ball' at testicle festival

Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:55 PM EDT
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OAKDALE — The fundraising idea may seem a little nuts, but Oakdale's annual Testicle Festival is always a big hit. On Monday, volunteers with the town's Rotary Club plan to fry up 400 pounds of the private parts of bulls and serve them to diners who pay $50 apiece for the sit-down meal.

The event, whose proceeds also benefit the Oakland Cowboy Museum, has drawn an average of 450 people and last year raised $28,000.

It's common practice on cattle ranches for young male bovines to be castrated into steers, which after the initial loss, eventually makes them more docile and easier to handle. Fans of the delicacy, also referred to as "mountain oysters," come from around the state.

According to Rotarians, everyone who buys a ticket is guaranteed to "have a ball."

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Information from: The Modesto Bee, http://www.modbee.com

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twocreeks

Here's a link to the story...http://www.modbee.com/1618/story/643121.html

    Reply#1 - Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:35 PM EDT
    UNCLEMIKE

    Nuts!

    • 2 votes
    Reply#2 - Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:16 PM EDT
    MrCerebellum

    Benefits for a cowboy museum? How incredibly @!$%#ing stupid.

      Reply#3 - Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:35 PM EDT
      Susan-649485

      Oh I don't know, have you ever ridden an unbroken horse?

      My brother-in-law tried breaking one of his horses and ended up with a testicle as big as a grapefruit.

      I'm sure this dinner could somehow come under the category of poetic justice.

        #3.1 - Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:05 PM EDT
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        Mary from FLA

        Im sure when you bit into one it squirted back. eek

          Reply#6 - Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:38 PM EDT
          Old School Woman

          This is the real version of "Funny Farm" starring Chevy Chase. In a restaurant he and his wife visited after their move to the suburbs he tried beating the record for eating the most of a country dish. Only after he beat the record did they tell him it was actually sheep balls! Hysterical.

            Reply#7 - Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:36 PM EDT
            joe'smommy

            $50 to eat some balls?!?!?! A club in Stillwater, Oklahoma does one every year that costs a less than that AND you get free beer and a band.

            • 1 vote
            Reply#8 - Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:31 AM EDT
            Jekazu

            GAG!

              Reply#9 - Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:55 PM EDT
              Miss Dynamite

              MMMMMM....... balls.

              When I lived in Oklahoma, my ex husband, myself, our one year old daugher, and a couple of friends went out to eat in Oklahoma City. They had 'nads on the menu, but they called them "lamb fries". My ex ordered a plate of them. I told him I'd be willing to try one. I did. One was enough. Not bad tasting at all, but knowing what they are makes them a little hard to eat.

              Well my friend Tiffany was chowing down on them. Her husband was trying so hard to control his laughter and finally he lost it. When he told her what she was eating she stood up in the middle of the restaurant and screamed,"I can't believe you let me eat BALLS!!! Oh my god, that is nasty. Who eats balls? Oh MY GOD!" Then she looked over at my daughter who was munching away on one and screamed,"You let your baby eat balls?" I have to say that was one of the most entertaining dinner dates I've ever had.

              • 2 votes
              Reply#10 - Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:04 PM EDT
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