More Spleen, Sir?

August 7th, 2009 by Scott

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As part of , I took part in — and often conducted — a number of meat-themed outings, adventures and experiments.  There was the Testicle Festival in Montana (it was hilarious), a day spent helping a young couple on a family farm butcher their cow for the year (it was a lot of work), as well as a trip into the woods of Plain Dealing, Louisiana to hunt squirrels with a man named Leroy Nuckolls (pronounced “knuckles” - and it was  emotional).  And after I’d attempted to eat my way through 31 different animals in the span of a month came the “tour de beouf,” in which I tried to consume every part cut and organ of a cow deemed medically and culinarily appropriate for human ingestion.  Over the course of several months, my friends and I had a blast cooking and eating everything from brains to bone marrow, tripe, hoof, tail, and everything in between.

Well, almost everything.

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