Instead, cow testicles taste, simply, like offal-toothsome and musky, the occasional gristle between your teeth, like an afterthought. They don’t taste like meat or like morels, though I was impressed with the suggestion, given to me by a Nebraskan gourmand who claimed he comes to the event known as the Testicle Festival-held annually over Father’s Day weekend at Round the Bend Steakhouse, in Ashland-because he thinks of cow balls as an affordable alternative to rare mushrooms. Nor, when battered thickly with flour and tossed into searing oil, do they taste like chicken-fried steak.
Let’s get it out of the way: No, testicles do not taste like chicken.