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Arizona Sonoran News

Sam Grossman takes a bite of a Rocky Mountain Oyster at the second annual Beer n Balls Festival at the Four Deuces Saloon and Grill in Tombston, Ari

The experience of eating a “Rocky Mountain Oyster”

Liza Pretto April 30, 2012

 

[caption id="attachment_227" align="alignnone" width="700"]Sam Grossman takes a bite of a Rocky Mountain Oyster at the second annual Beer n' Balls Festival at the Four Deuces Saloon and Grill in Tombston, AriSam Grossman takes a bite of a Rocky Mountain Oyster at the second annual Beer n' Balls Festival at the Four Deuces Saloon and Grill in Tombstone, Ariz. on April 14.[/caption]
“There’s an event in Tombstone on the 14th called Beer n’ Balls,” said Amanda Seely, editor in chief of the Tombstone Epitaph. The class looked around the room, exchanging puzzled looks and wondering what the hell this event was.

“Beer n’ Balls is a festival at Four Deuces Saloon in which people drink beer and eat Rocky Mountain Oysters,” she said after a few seconds of silence.

As soon as I heard the words “Rocky Mountain Oysters,” I immediately cringed. I had seen them on the Travel Channel time and time again, and I always said to myself after, “That is one thing I will never try.”

For those of you who don’t know, a Rocky Mountain Oyster is a bull calf testicle. Grossed out yet? Well, you will be.

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