BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??

Subject: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:17 PM

Found this review of a cookboo which has just bee awarded a top prize. Might put it on the wish list for Christmas. But the comment at the bottom about roosters tesicles being tastier than sheeps had me wondering if any catters had ever eaten them??

TV chefs leave the critics cold
By Jack Malvern
A cookbook written by an unknown has been selected by a panel of experts as the best buy



NIGELLA LAWSON and Jamie Oliver have seduced television viewers with their intimate approach to food, but their cookbooks don't cut the mustard, according to a panel of food experts.
Celebrity chefs, including Ainsley Harriott and Antony Worrall Thompson, have also been omitted from a list of the most useful cookbooks compiled by chefs and critics including Aldo Zilli and Giles Coren, food writer for The Times.



Even Delia Smith was relegated to second place by a ten-year-old cookbook written by a chef who has never presented a television programme.

The best kitchen companion, according to Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine, is Roast Chicken and Other Stories, written by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham.

Mr Hopkinson, the founding chef at Bibendum restaurant in Kensington, Central London, was praised as having "such good taste and sense that the result is a little blueprint for British cooking through the year".

The magazine added: "Once you have followed Hopkinson's recipes for salad nicoise or roast potatoes, you'll never want to do them any other way. Who needs a 500-page doorstopper when you've got the essence of modern British cooking in a volume you could almost fit in your pocket?"

Delia Smith, whose name has entered the Collins English Dictionary, was ranked second for her Complete Cookery Course, first published in 1978.

Her 576-page volume was praised for the reliability of its recipes. "Size doesn't always equate with usefulness, but in this case the sheer scope of the recipes, from a simple omelette to Christmas dinner, provides a kitchen comfort blanket." Real Fast Food, Nigel Slater's first book, came third for its perfect bacon sandwich and variations on cheese on toast.

Instructions on how to skin a rabbit helped Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall earn fourth place for The River Cottage Meat Book. Giles Coren, who voted for the book, said: "It really makes you want to eat meat. The only disappointing thing is that it has recipes for sheep's testicles, but not rooster's testicles, which as every gastronome knows are the tastiest testicles of all." The title of Most Useless Cookbook went to the Larousse Gastronomique, a "stuffy" 1,200-page encyclopaedia that costs £60.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:22 PM

Ate many a farm-raised rooster, but never in my life heard of anybody eating *THEM*. I'd much rather eat pine nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: rumanci
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:26 PM

another cock and bull story ?
hmmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:41 PM

Well, if you had a good rooster, you wouldn't know, would you?

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: pdq
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:45 PM

Both sound better than eating moth balls.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:48 PM

Ever smell moth balls?










How did ya get his little legs apart?

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 08:49 PM

A moth's legs are always apart, aren't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:01 PM

I dunno. Head out this way during the Spring roundups and try some fresh, fried, calf fries.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:17 PM

Prairie oysters.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:26 PM

Peace... you sayin my moths a slut?

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: open mike
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 09:29 PM

http://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/poyster.htm

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/RockyMtnOyster.htm

Prairie Oysters, Mountain Tendergroins, Cowboy Caviar,
Swinging Beef and Calf Fries

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:27 PM

I learn something new everyday.







Nobody ever told me it would be something I never wanted to learn about......

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:36 PM

Michelle... hehehehe!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 10:48 PM

A man walks into the chemist's shop.

Man: "Have you got cotton wool balls?"

Assistant: "What do you think I am, a teddy bear?"

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 11:47 PM

gnu, maybe one wouldn't know if one had a good rooster, but the hens might. Female house sparrows can judge the size of the male house sparrow's testes, by the size of his black bib. Maybe hens can judge the size of a rooster's testicles by the size of his comb or the length of his spurs and tail feathers?

Speaking of bird parts, there's nothing about it's testicles, but the Argentine lake duck holds a record for other bits.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 11:55 PM

I've eaten beef testicles after a few brandings. Never sheep or rooster. Afraid I can't be much help.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,Alix, graaa parot
Date: 28 Jul 05 - 11:56 PM

rooster balls good cook eat
parrot balls bad no cook

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:28 AM

You can't eat rooster testicles! If you eat 'em, then the rooster doesn't have 'em, so he's no longer a rooster. He'a a capon.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:38 AM

I saw a guy with a capon once. Said he was a crime-fighter. But that's not what the capon said.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,shanghaiceltic
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:39 AM

Well, I have asked around and just got mystified looks from my Chinese friends. None of them have ever seen a rooster balls dish here.

They suggested we go down to a KFC and ask them if the do rooster ball burgers.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 12:49 AM

I knew someone would say that! But, it doesn't matter either way because he'll still be a chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:35 AM

I'd much rather eat pine nuts.

I didn't know pine trees had them!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 02:35 PM

*making note of all you testicle eating, ball sniffing folks*

So far, I've got Brucie, the blood sausage, duck tongue sucking, beef testicle eating folk singer and guitarist;

Metchosin the bird testicle observation specialist;

And Shanghaiceltic, Cookbook Collector specializing in rooster testicles and sheep testicles.

Somehow, the thread about shagging sheep comes to mind....

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 03:25 PM

Good to see our Delia in the ratings. She has a passion for balls too - footballs of course, which in her case are perhaps best not served up with too much red wine...

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 04:39 PM

The size of his comb?... oh dear me, I'm bald. Maybe that's why... no, I have some decorum... not much, but some.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,Allan S.
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 06:31 PM

We would surgically remove the testicles and the bird was refered to as a Capon.. In the early 1950's we would insert a pellet of diethelsibestrol [sp] which is a female sex hormone under the skin of the neck of the bird. this would have the same effect to fatten the bird for sale. the problen was in many cases the pelet did not disolve. many people bought chicken necks for food and who ever ate them male or female would get adose of female sex hormone.. Not a good idea....

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 11:40 AM

Well, I've eaten turkey fries....I wasn't impressed. Calf fries are much better.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 01:11 PM

And McDonalds sells many tons of french fries daily in the US alone. No wonder the French are so bitchy.

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 02:41 PM

As for the original question, it all depends on whether you are trying to make lambs or chicks. One man's map is another man's enemy!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Jul 05 - 04:07 PM

Cluin...ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,lurch
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 12:24 PM

I supose its a bit like sayin', you can tell the size of a man's anatomy by the size of his shoes!


I went into a shoe shop last year to by a size 14 (large) pair of light blue 'Doc Martins' and the young girl who served me said,"You must have some balls wearing those out!"
Now, how did she know? Was it because of the size of the shoes? or , that maybe because I looked a real 'prick' in them?

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 12:28 PM

light blue Doc Martins????

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: GUEST,lurch
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 12:40 PM

yeah, they went with my three quarter length lime green cotton hipsters.


Im a man of refined taste!
Im still single, with no friends, but Ive got Mudcat to see thru!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Tam the man
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 11:04 AM

yes for chickens

Subject: RE: BS: Rooster testicles better than sheeps??
From: Tam the man
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 11:05 AM

do you not mean rams,