I was watching Viva La Bam on MTV, and there’s a scene where they buy a jar of “Dude Eggs”, and coerce uncle Vito to eat one. When he discovers that they are labled “dude eggs”, he spits it out and claims they are human testicles from cadavers???
That can’t true, can it? What are they, really? Google no helpy.
Any human body parts will be labeled with rather intimidating verbiage and one or two of those neat biohazard symbols. They will not be called “dude eggs” and they will not be sold to anyone doing a reality TV show.
They could have bought prairie oysters, which are bull’s testicles. Those are common enough that my mom’s hometown (Clinton, Montana) has an annual Testicle Festival where the local delicacy is sold and, reputedly, eaten. I’ve never had the pleasure, but bull’s testicles are something your average nobody could buy over-the-counter.
In a movie or tv show, they’re no doubt props. Not real.
In real life, you could always have human-cadaver-testicles-in-a-jar for lunch, but the formaldehyde smell might give them away.
If they were harvested from live donors (crosses legs and yells “ouch!”) then they could be pickled in a vinegar brine I guess. Probably a bit more tasty. (Did I just say that?)
You were watching a freakin’ movie, for Cecil’s sake!! Shake it off.
I paused when Bam held the jar up to the camera, and the top two ingredients were eggs and vinegar. So apparently they are just some kind of spicy pickled eggs. They still look smaller than your average chicken egg, but they could be just small chicken eggs. They were too big to be quail eggs or the like.
While it is nice to get information from the horse’s mouth so-to-speak; a quick google comes up with the same information from multiple sites (including this one). Of course, this may not have been the case 14 years ago.
Actually, most bulls are made into steers before they are 100 days old – pre-puberty. At that time, their testicles are much smaller.
The ‘bulls balls’ that you see in photos are from quality breeding stock animals, several years older and much more developed.
‘Prairie oysters’ available for eating are usually from the gelding of young male calves (technically, not even a bull yet) and as such are much smaller than the testicles of a mature bull.