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Date Posted: 14:23:38 04/15/03 Tue
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's message, "Did that article take some [BEEP]s or what?" on 12:28:55 04/15/03 Tue
Instead of squealing with glee when someone makes a slight error while bringing a story to the attention of others, try doing some investigating as to why the link didn't appear.
This is the story Betty waned to post at this location and, as promised, it's rather gross:
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/04/05/38752.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News
Hardy eaters devour mountain ‘oysters’
Carla Roccapriore
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
4/5/2003 11:56 pm
Flocking to Saturday’s 12th annual Mountain Oyster Fry, also known as the “Testicle Festival,” people tasted mountain oysters, also known as sheep testicles, from 14 vendors.
Motorists driving along C Street in Virginia City to the Bucket of Blood Saloon were greeted by a sign: “The Mountain Oyster Fry -- have a ball.”
And, no, this wasn’t an audition for television’s “Fear Factor.”
Reno resident Paul Rasmussen, 62, said he’s been eating them, along with cow and hog testicles, for at least 50 years and has attended the event every year since moving to the area in 1999.
“My family owned a farm (in New Hampshire) and we used to harvest our own,” Rasmussen said. “I helped cut them.”
However, convincing the squeamish to taste the cowboy caviar isn’t always easy, he said.
Rasmussen said he talked his 57-year-old wife, Pearl, into trying them two years ago after she’d drank a half bottle of wine.
“She’s from Boston. She thought I was crazy,” Rasmussen said. “Now I can’t keep her away from them.”
But all it took was curiosity and some free time to get Reno residents Conrad and Brooke Wong to the festival.
“It doesn’t seem that odd,” said Conrad Wong, 28. “It originally came from Basque and different cultures have different foods. There are weirder things.”
Lake Topaz resident Fritz Rubins, the event’s competition chief judge the last seven years, said an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 people attended the event. Judges vote for the top three vendors in the categories of best taste, presentation, creativity and booth, he said.
“We’re happy with the turnout and weather,” Rubins said.
Copyright © 2002 The Reno Gazette-Journal
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