world testicle cooking championship

[Amby 490]

OZREM, Serbia – In a remote Serbian mountain village, they're cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.

"This festival is all about fun, food and bravery," said Ljubomir Erovic, the Serbian chef and testicles gourmand specialist who organizes the bizarre cooking festival and has published a testicle cookery book.

The food — politely called "white kidneys" in Serbian — is believed to be rich in testosterone. In the Balkans, it is considered to help men's libido.

"The bulls' testicles are the best, goulash style," said last year's winner Zoltan Levai, stirring a metal pot heated by a wood fire and filled with vegetables and large testicles that he said were provided from a state-run slaughter house.

The festival — which includes dishes like testicle pizza and testicles in bechamel sauce flavored with a variety of herbs found in the region.

Visitors eat the dishes with plenty of wine or beer, and cool themselves in a small mountain river that flows beside the makeshift cooking stands blasting folk music. The stalls also sell roasted pig or lamb, "as a side dish".

"I came here last year, and decided to come back," said Anna Wexler, an Israeli citizen originally from New York who's now a member of the festival's jury. "It was delicious. There was testicle moussaka, goulash, stallion, boar, bull and many other things."

The festival also gives prizes to to those who have made the news for being "ballsy". This year one of the unsuspecting winners is U.S. President Barack Obama.

"He's the bravest man in the world," said Erovic. "Obama took over the world at the most difficult economic and political times," Erovic said. "He showed he has balls."

The other prize went to American pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who last year glided a passenger jet into the Hudson river in New York rather than risk crashing in a densely populated area trying to reach an airport.

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[Nagishkaw 510]

That's nuts.

[Amby 490]

nobody else wants to eat testicles?

[mawilson 2,133]

The festival also gives prizes to to those who have made the news for being "ballsy". This year one of the unsuspecting winners is U.S. President Barack Obama.

"He's the bravest man in the world," said Erovic. "Obama took over the world at the most difficult economic and political times," Erovic said. "He showed he has balls."

Obama's balls are the best, goulash style.

[Amby 490]

Obama's balls are the best, goulash style.

I agree only because you're the only one who will eat presidential testicle goulash with me

[ValerieA 350]

I agree only because you're the only one who will eat presidential testicle goulash with me

I have a theory that the Secret Service will frown upon that.

[Amby 490]

I have a theory that the Secret Service will frown upon that.

hmmm...didn't think about that. maybe another time.

[Nagishkaw 510]

nobody else wants to eat testicles?

Felt like..a bag of sand.

[Jenn! 918]

nobody else wants to eat testicles?

what do they taste like?

[SMR 368]

Obama's balls are the best, goulash style.

I think you are going to leave hungry.

[thongd4me 69]

I think Jeff Probst (Survivor) or Joe Rogan (Fear Factor) had the contestants eat bull nuts on TV.

I know I saw it but forget which show.

Warms the cockles of my...to know you don't only care about the ####### Amby.

Hey that's entertainment!

[Nagishkaw 510]

I think Jeff Probst (Survivor) or Joe Rogan (Fear Factor) had the contestants eat bull nuts on TV.

I'd be ballin'.

[mawilson 2,133]

Obama's balls are the best, goulash style.

I think you are going to leave hungry.

[Amby 490]

what do they taste like?

I've only had bull testicles. I guess the only way to describe them is they had a chewy texture and it was almost like eating livers. The flavor was quite strong. I wasn't grossed out or anything. The texture was just different. You may like them if you like other offal meats. I will usually try anything once but I don't know if I will branch out and try any other animal testicles.

Edited August 30, 2010 by Amby

[BobandXiaomei 14]

We called them 'mountain oysters' and "harvested" them every year from the herd. I never ate any but my Dad's pharmacy sales reps would come and help so they could take them home for eating.

P.S. I asked my grandfather "Why do we do this?"

His reply: "It's what they call psycho-surgery. Takes their mind of #### and puts it on grass."