The Matrix is Designed so that Everyone Sees a Clue

[orlandofurioso]

Anytime
Raw, or steamed with spring onions ( or ginger ) and soy sauce ( cantonese ), au gratin with spinach and bread-crumbs etc. etc.
Last year we visited Honfleur in France and had so many with a good, dry white wine. We love'em.
Also a stunning recipe here for lambs testicles.

 

[orlandofurioso]

While I won’t eat them raw anymore, there are few things more satisfying than a bowl of oyster stew.

Raw and also still f.....g alive !

 

[runscott]

I can't even grasp the possibility of existence, so nothing else surprises me.

 

[kcghost]

Sorry to be late to the party but, like George, I find eating oysters as repulsive an item supposedly for eating as ay can be.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I have never eaten oysters. They really don't appeal to me.
However, if they were cooked, chopped up really small and covered in curry sauce. I think I could manage them if I had to.

Mentioned earlier: Oysters Rockefeller; Bienville; Deauville, etc. All are cooked and seasoned nicely. One has spinach to hid the bits, too. They are everywhere in New Orleans, and in some fancy restaurants in cities.

EDIT: Didn't see Orlando's post when I wrote the above. The N.O. versions appeared to have been baked. Delicious.

 

[runscott]

Okay, the clue the Matrix provides me is that some people don't love raw oysters.
These things made me question human choices on food consumption, but I soon grew to enjoy them as well. If you don't recognize them, and you think raw oysters are disgusting, you're fine as-is.

 

[georged]

Okay, the clue the Matrix provides me is that some people don't love raw oysters.
These things made me question human choices on food consumption, but I soon grew to enjoy them as well. If you don't recognize them, and you think raw oysters are disgusting, you're fine as-is.

Them thar be sea urchin testicles.

If really and truly super fresh---meaning only hours out of the water---and an Old School sushi master is the one doing the culinary necessities, they're delicious.

Even a smidge too old, though, or previously frozen, and they're disgusting.

 

[runscott]

Them thar be sea urchin testicles.

If really and truly super fresh---meaning only hours out of the water---and an Old School sushi master is the one doing the culinary necessities, they're delicious.

Even a smidge too old, though, or previously frozen, and they're disgusting.

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Yeah, the first time I had them was in LA - taken to the place by a manager with a generous expense account who loved sushi, so they were fresh. They were not-so-great anywhere I tried them in Atlanta. But I need to give them another try in Seattle - I'm sure there are good places.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was travelling through Illinois on my way to Chicago, and saw a sign that said "turkey testicle festival this way." So, I was like, damn, lets go see that.
It was somewhere near Winnebago, IL. A little bar in the middle of just flat nothingness. Billions and billions of cars and trucks parked for as far as the eye could see. Bands, fat women, and beer by the freighter load.
Now, I wish I could say that I had tried me a turkey testicle. And, I would have, if it weren't that I stood in line with my family for two hours, and the line was still about eight hours long, and I just didn't have that kind of time. But, ummm boy, them Illinois boys really like gobbling those gobbler gonads down by the buckets.
Honestly, I never even got close enough to them to even see one.

 

[sablebrush52]

No amount of curry sauce could persuade me to eat testicles.

Nor I, yet there seems to be this sort of he-man attitude toward the eating of balls...kind of verges on homoerotic.
Whereas, the eating of raw oysters has been likened to experiencing cunnilingus.

I've had raw oyters and it's OK, and didn't remind me of muff diving, but nothing I would seek out. My father, being a New Englander, loved raw oysters. Oyster stew is a delight.

 

[runscott]

Nor I, yet there seems to be this sort of he-man attitude toward the eating of balls...kind of verges on homoerotic.
Whereas, the eating of raw oysters has been likened to experiencing cunnilingus.

I've had raw oyters and it's OK, and didn't remind me of muff diving, but nothing I would seek out. My father, being a New Englander, loved raw oysters. Oyster stew is a delight.

I have never heard any such vagina references and can't imagine how the two could relate.

I have only even seen animal testicles prep'd for eating, once. I was at my Grandfather's hunting cabin with him, Dad and my little brother who was about eight at the time. They had fried up a bunch of cut-up bull testicles - they called them 'calf fries' - and didn't tell my brother what they were. He had a piece on his fork and I took it away from him and told him what it was. My Dad and Grandfather were laughing like little boys. It's an image I'll never forget.

 

[VDL_Piper]

I have never heard any such vagina references and can't imagine how the two could relate.

I have only even seen animal testicles prep'd for eating, once. I was at my Grandfather's hunting cabin with him, Dad and my little brother who was about eight at the time. They had fried up a bunch of cut-up bull testicles - they called them 'calf fries' - and didn't tell my brother what they were. He had a piece on his fork and I took it away from him and told him what it was. My Dad and Grandfather were laughing like little boys. It's an image I'll never forget.

I'd be like your Grandfather and Dad

 

[Hillcrest]

I was travelling through Illinois on my way to Chicago, and saw a sign that said "turkey testicle festival this way." So, I was like, damn, lets go see that.
It was somewhere near Winnebago, IL. A little bar in the middle of just flat nothingness. Billions and billions of cars and trucks parked for as far as the eye could see. Bands, fat women, and beer by the freighter load.
Now, I wish I could say that I had tried me a turkey testicle. And, I would have, if it weren't that I stood in line with my family for two hours, and the line was still about eight hours long, and I just didn't have that kind of time. But, ummm boy, them Illinois boys really like gobbling those gobbler gonads down by the buckets.
Honestly, I never even got close enough to them to even see one.

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[VDL_Piper]

 

[Servant King]

No amount of curry sauce could persuade me to eat testicles.

If you're going to quote Jeffrey Dahmer, the least you could do is give him credit.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Prairie oysters. The thought of eating gonads makes me gag.

I've et alligator, crawfish, octopus, raw shrimp that was sill wiggling on the plate, brains, kidneys and a variety of other roads less traveled. I can't quite get into eating grasshoppers neither.

Eh, I can get behind fried gonads. Specifically fried!
Then again, I'm allergic to shellfish (developed after I developed a taste for crab rangoon and fried clam, of course) and my bucket list includes "Eat horse".

 

[Hillcrest]

I'd be like your Grandfather and Dad

 

[username]

Can't due on the half shell also sea urchin the texture is just puke

 

[runscott]

Can't due on the half shell also sea urchin the texture is just puke

To me it's weird that someone could hate raw oysters but love sea urchin. Sea urchin is very strange, but I do like it.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Love oysters …or is it that I enjoy snot soaked in lemon, horseradish, & hot sauce? Hmm …I’ll have to weigh that? ️