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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3162066, member: 76194&quot;]Sorry folks, but it doesn&#039;t get any tastier than Criadillas. There&#039;s nothing that says authentic Spanish food quite like floured and fried bulls&#039; testicles. I know it sounds weird, but don&#039;t knock it until you try it. It&#039;s really good.</p><p><br /></p><p>People eat weirder things if you think about it. Here in the US, frog legs and gator tail are considered delicacies in some parts of the country. The French eat snails, and rich Americans pay lots of money for &quot;escargot&quot; which is a fancy word for common land snails. So don&#039;t knock the bull testicles down until you&#039;ve sampled it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811917[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Bull ball (testicle) soup is also a great delicacy. I had some in a restaurant in Madrid that was next to Ventas, where the bullfighting arena is. Hands down the best soup I&#039;ve ever had.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here the magnificent bull on a coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811919[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another worthy of mention would definitely be Cochinillo Asado. It consists of a 21 day old suckling pig, fed only on it&#039;s mother&#039;s milk, that has been roasted. This is a traditional dish in the northern regions of central Spain. I had this dish in Segovia, together with Sangre de Toro wine, and it was one of the top 3 dishes I&#039;ve ever tasted in my life.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811922[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and here is a relative of the tasty little guy above:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]811923[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>PETA would definitely not do well in Spain. Vegetarianism is almost non-existent over there. I doubt the average Spaniard even knows anyone who is a vegetarian.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are other Spanish dishes I absolutely love, but I don&#039;t have animals on coins to represent them. One such honorable mention is Arros Negro Con Calamares. It consists of white rice died black by squid ink, and a generous serving of baby squids mixed in. Yum![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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