🤮🤮. Good one

I have no idea but I'd love to see the rest of your list

Just make sure you pull down real good before you clip them

Visit a butcher shop and ask, maybe fresh from farm store can arrange something for you.

Not sure where you can find them for this year, but the Montana State Society at least used to put on their annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, AKA “Testy Fest”, every June. All you can eat Rocky Mountain oysters and all you can drink beer and Crown Royal.

I can to suggest the same thing.

Papa Chubbs has gone with some Montana natives a few time and has had fun.

I went once and had a good time. I found the Rocky Mountain oysters unpleasant, but bottomless beer and Crown made up for it. The band was good, and the people fun. That said, I likely won’t go again unless someone else suggests it, because, again, turns out I really dislike Rocky Mountain oysters.

Testy Fest is perhaps my favorite name for a thing ever. Well done Montana State Society.

I thought Rocky Mountain oysters were bull's balls.

You are correct

They aren’t really in season. It’s generally a spring thing.

Best option is to ask a butcher. But it’s not the usual anywhere, or in enough demand to have places carry it. For what it’s worth lamb fries aren’t that different if you can’t find em at a butcher. The places most likely to have it would be Spanish, but didn’t see it on any menus.

The time to find some seems to coincide, with no apparent correlation, to calving season. At least in Montana.

I have had them. They taste like a dark meat version of McDonald's chicken nuggets. And, yes, I did get a "rise" out of them, just as they myths say. Got them at the baseball stadium in Denver.

Ain’t no ocean in the Rockies.

Jokes aside: Head West into Maryland and Virginia. 😉

In my ranching family, calving was always in the early spring and vet day was in the fall after flies were out of season. We would dehorn and castrate at that time. We also branded in the early days. My family never thought Rocky Mountain oysters were fit for human consumption but neighbors would line up for them as they became available on vet day.

Damn, I never really wanted to try them before, but I'm one of like 14 people in the US that misses McD's dark meat nuggets.

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It’s from this poster I got last Christmas! I couple other items I still need to get - stinky tofu, tagine, bone marrow, chilli crab, Kobe beef - if anyone has any leads on those that would be helpful too 😅

I came across that in my search but doesn’t seem like they’ve had it in the past few years. A shame because it’s sounds so fun!

I’ll give this a try! Thanks

My wife is out right now with her former colleagues from Max Baucus’ office. I asked her to see if anyone knows if Testy Fest is gone forever.

Any reasonably upscale steakhouse should have bone marrow. You need a Moroccan spot for tagine.

Years ago I saw them at the Giant gourmet in Rockville.

I saw cow testicles in the freezer at the LA mart in Alexandria (not springfield) if you want to make your own.

Soft shell might be the closest option

You can get bone marrow at Bourbon Steak. I was there 2 weeks ago.

I personally think any aphrodisiac reaction is purely placebo. Aphrodisiacs such as oysters and bull testicles don't have any science to back up the claims. They simply look like, or are, genetalia.

I'm trying to think where you could get chili crab.

There's a Malaysian restaurant in Centreville that's really good (Malaysian Kopitiam) but I just looked on the menu and they don't have it. The owners are really sweet and I bet if you called and asked where you could get it they would tell you a place.

Taipei Cafe in Rockville has (or had) stinky tofu. I love stinky tofu. I used to live in Hong Kong and would go to the street stalls in Mong Kok (neighborhood with a lot of markets and street food) to eat it regularly. Doesn't taste anything like it smells. I've never had the Taiwanese version of it but I hear it is better than the HK version.

No no, they are high in zinc, which helps down there.

Thank you all so much for the recs! I’ll definitely try out some of these spots!!!

Ok, so that is something. But I still doubt one serving of rocky mountain oysters has enough zinc to make an appreciable difference. Maybe if you eat them every day.

Gee, us North Carolinians just have an assload of barbecue catered by whatever legit NC place is willing to drive 5 hours up 95.