#calf fries

[admiraltx]

[fieriframes]

[I've had lamb's tongue, calf fries, turtle, pig ear, pig tail. And now the thymus gland. I didn't notice how extraordi-nary it was at the time. This is for you.]

[fieriframes]

[A close up of a person, caption: And not just the calf fries --]

[duranduratulsa]

Dish of the day: Calf Fries #food #foodporn #calffries #oklahoma #oklahomafood

[fierifiction]

And not just the calf fries -- just some of my favorite foods. In fact, I think my favorite foods are cheese, corn chips, and the stuff that went into the fryer. Danish Prime Rib, my favorite cheese. I love it, but I need more in my diet. I think this is when you have the best and you're trying to have it in a meal, that's when you'll get bored, go home, and not have the cheese again.

[elwood88]

"Rocky Mountain oysters" and other names for this "delicacy" in the Middle Rockies

Fieldworker: What kind of restaurants would you find [Rocky Mountain oysters] in? Any around here? Informant: Yeah. U(H) Out here at the Outhouse Inn. Alamosa, Colorado, November 2001

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In my latest post on synonyms for outhouse in the Middle Rockies, I mentioned euphemism as a possible cause of lexical variation. In today's post, the use of language to avoid potentially taboo topics surfaces again in regard to something that some folk regard as a delicacy: animal testicles fried up and served under a variety of names that are not always immediately transparent and, as a result, are sometimes ordered by the unsuspecting (as in the clip from "Funny Farm", above).

 If you've seen my blog before, you might have guessed that such names make an appearance in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies (LAMR). And you'd be right. Although not an explicit target of the LAMR worksheets, the pronunciation of oyster was, and since the Middle Rockies are about as landlocked as any area in the United States, one of the more common strategies that fieldworkers adopted to obtain oyster was to go about it by trying to elicit Rocky Mountain oyster. Additionally, since there are a cluster of questions on neutered animals, as well as the process of neutering them, some of these variants naturally occurred during that discourse. Finally, the notion of people cooking certain parts of any animal can be of interest, especially to those of us who were not raised on a farm (or in, say, the Great Depression), so discussion of this topic, as opposed to questions on, say, window shades and dish cloths, could be among the highlights of the interview.

In all, 32 of the 70 LAMR informants provided 42 tokens relating to the concept of Rocky Mountain oysters of 9 different types, presented in the table below:

As illustrated, Rocky mountain oysters was the highest-ranking variant of this item in LAMR, followed by the closely related variants mountain oysters and oysters, and another variant built on the oyster theme, namely prairie oysters, appearing among the hapax legomena (oncers). Another group of variants utilizes fries as its lexical base, namely calf fries, fries, lamb fries, and sheep fries. And then, of course, if you have a prevalence of two patterns, there has to be at least one variant that doesn't fit either -- in this case, calf nuts.

[bangtansturley]

Trying to explain southern food to your northern friend is very hilarious 😂. Never thought id have to describe what menudo or calf fries was to people 😅😂😂😅 @internal-screamer

[neithersparky]

These are calf testicle/bacon kabobs. Bacon Ball Kabobs.

Since my gastric bypass last year I have been on the look-out for new (for me) and interesting sources of protein, which is the most important part of my diet now. So far I have tried rabbit (good, and Kiwi adored it) and goat (which my new stomach didn't like). My local Asian market always carries calf testicles so I decided to give them a go. Since I don't tolerate breaded and fried foods well I decided to grill them on my Traeger.

Testicles are encased in a tough membrane which has to be removed, then I cut them into large chunks and marinated them. I threaded them on skewers with pieces of my homemade bacon and grilled them...I forget how long exactly, maybe about 10 minutes per side.

The verdict...They had very little flavor of their own, all I tasted really was the marinade. Texture-wise they reminded me of a fine-grained liver (and I like liver). Unfortunately my pouch (as in my new stomach) gave it a thumbs-down and ejected it. :/ Damn pouch.

Perhaps these are better fried after all, so if you haven't had stomach surgery and are curious maybe you should try them that way instead.