I have not eaten Impala....

But I have eaten beef, sheep, bear, wild pig, and cape buff "mountain oysters".

A funny story, on my first Safari to Zimbabwe, one night I was the first back the the dinner area.

There was some thinly sliced "meat" that had been floured and fried. It was GOOD.

The PH showed up and I asked him what IT was.

He replied "You might not want to know".

I replied that I did want to know as I wanted to eat it again.

He told me it was Cape Buffalo BALLS, FROM THE LAST HUNTER, that did not like wild game meat.

A few days later I shot a Cape Buff with very nice horns...

Everybody was pleased, the PH, the trackers, and my camera man.

I lifted his back leg and proclaimed... "The ONLY thing I care about is HOW BIG ARE HIS BALLS, LETS EAT THEM TONIGHT.

They were GOOD.

TRUE STORY.

I've not eaten them in Africa, but "mountain oysters" are a prized delicacy here in Arizona. They appear on menus of many restaurants, and The Mountain Oyster Club in Tucson is one of our city's most exclusive private clubs. I eat them every chance I get. Breaded and fried, there is nothing better.

Bill Quimby

I've had them off a cape buff and a roan. Good conversation starter, crappy food. Then again, I say that about all the organ based foods. Making a virtue out of necessity to my taste buds.

Dean

Here in Wisconsin we deep fry them with either breading or batter and they are quite good. However if you deep fry anything with batter its good. We also have a lot more beer to drink. Actually anything deep fried and with a lot of beer is good. I think I may have had an old tire deep fried but i'm not sure, yes there was beer involved.

When we were kids, we used to stand by with great anticipation as a goat or sheep is slaughtered, becasewe get the balls, and waste no time in grilling them on an open fire and eat them.

Walter and Ro love buffalo balls.

You can see the look of absolute pleasure o their faces if we shoot two or three bulls together.

I've had beef. Not bad.

Brett

I have tried blesbok and kudu balls. The blesbuck was shot by the PH's wife and was her first animal. They tasted pretty good. I ate the kudu balls after I told the PH at dinner that I would eat them if a kudu was shot the following day. They also tasted good. Both sets were cooked over the bbq.

Greg

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Originally posted by Dr. Mike H.:
Here in Wisconsin we deep fry them with either breading or batter and they are quite good. However if you deep fry anything with batter its good. We also have a lot more beer to drink. Actually anything deep fried and with a lot of beer is good. I think I may have had an old tire deep fried but i'm not sure, yes there was beer involved.

Ah! A man with excellent tastes in wine: One who knows that "BEER IS BEST!"

Everything goes down better with beer! Enough beer can make even some pretty revolting stuff go down well!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

I have had beef but thus far none in Africa, which I hink I will resolve this fall, but remember we a talking cooked not like the video.

Old guy from Madrid used to go to a restaurant every Sunday near the bullfighting arena and have the balls of one of the recently killed bulls. One day the waiter brings him a plate of very small balls.
"What's up with these balls?"
"Senor, the matador does not always win."

When I was in college we had enough ranch kids in school (North Dakota State) to have an oyster fry every weekend.

Oops, my bad! Don't eat organs, nads included!

Chicken, Turkey and Rat BAlls?

We eat wildbors balls normally, but we put them sliced n the beaten egg , then in the grated bread and at the end we fry them in the butter.
The same is daone with the bull balls.

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Originally posted by Dr. Mike H.:
Here in Wisconsin we deep fry them with either breading or batter and they are quite good. However if you deep fry anything with batter its good. We also have a lot more beer to drink. Actually anything deep fried and with a lot of beer is good. I think I may have had an old tire deep fried but i'm not sure, yes there was beer involved.

I'm sure that is all true!

But I have never been - and I hope never to be - hungry enough to eat anything's testicles!

I had stone sheep testicles for dinner one night on a British Columbia sheep hunt. Not bad at all. On a sheep hunt in the Yukon we came in from a very long day on horse back to our spike tent camp. One of our indian guides had a wondeful stew going on the fire. It was delicious especially since we were so cold and hungry. It was only after dinner while we were in our sleeping bags talking that we realized that the only meat in camp was from the head of a wolf I had shot a couple of days earlier.

465H&H

On safari in Zim we would gather for drinks and h'ors d'ouvrs by a mopane fire before supper. I usually got there before the PH. One evening the cook brought out some flat fried things which, when I asked, he said were "buz boz." They were pretty good. When the PH showed up hs asked if I knew they were Zambezi oysters from the buffalo I had shot. "Buz boz" meant "bull's balls," I guess.

Sliced, spiced and fried buff balls are a fine apetizer.

JPK

A bit of coarse salt, peper and tabasco sauce with a halfjack of Whisky will make anything taste excellent...

A well known establishment in North Central Colorado specializes in Rocky Mountain oysters and turkey nuts --- and of course beer -- great place to say the least.
G

Shot my first buffalo in the Selous a couple of years ago at about 8:00 AM. As a lunch appetizer, bull balls chopped and deep fried, skewered on toothpicks. I ate them but didn't really like them very much. Preferred the backstrap.

My mate shot a Blue wildeb
east and we decided he would have to partake. They were sliced and fried in garlic butter, and I must say there was nothing left in the pan once everyone had tried them.

The next day I shot an Eland but I wasn't really ready for the ribbing I'd get if I actually asked for them so I passed!!

In Cyprus the lambs testicles are quite a delicacy that I used to enjoy tricking the tourists into eating without knowing!!

FB