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Betty
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Date Posted: 06:54:31 04/16/03 Wed
In reply to:
NKLS Cody
's message, "Re: Did that article take some [BEEP]s or what?" on 14:23:38 04/15/03 Tue
>hummmmm wonder what i did wrong this time,lol
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:
>
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rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/04/05/3
>8752.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News">http://www.rg
>j.com/news/stories/html/2003/04/05/38752.php?sp1=rgj&sp
>2=News&sp3=Local+News
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>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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