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Lamb fries are
Lamb fries are lamb
Lamb or The Lamb may refer to:
* A young sheep
* Lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep
Arts and media Film, television, and theatre
* ''The Lamb'' (1915 film), a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his screen debut
* ''The Lamb'' (1918 ...
testicle
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s used as food. Historically they were parboiled, cut in half, and seasoned. Lamb testicles are served in a variety of cuisines, including Italian
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, Basque
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, breaded and fried in some barbecue
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restaurants, Chinese
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, Caucasian
Caucasian may refer to:
Anthropology
*Anything from the Caucasus region
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** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region
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, Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
and Iranian Armenian
Iranian-Armenians ( hy, իրանահայեր ''iranahayer''), also known as Persian-Armenians ( hy, պարսկահայեր ''parskahayer''), are Iranians of Armenian ethnicity who may speak Armenian as their first language. Estimates of thei ...
(called ''donbalan''), and Turkish. The dish is rarely served at restaurants in the United States, but can occasionally be found at Iranian restaurants.
Lamb fries, often served in a cream gravy
Gravy is a sauce often made from the juices of meats that run naturally during cooking and often thickened with wheat flour or corn starch for added texture. The gravy may be further coloured and flavoured with gravy salt (a simple mix of salt an ...
, are a traditional dish in the Bluegrass region
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of Kentucky
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.Alvey, R. Gerald. Kentucky Bluegrass Country. University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
In popular culture
In the film '' Funny Farm'', the main character, Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (; born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, actor and writer. He became a key cast member in the first season of ''Saturday Night Live'', where his recurring ''Weekend Update'' segment became a staple of the ...
), breaks a local record by eating thirty lamb fries, only to discover what they actually are and spit the thirty-first out in revulsion.
See also
*List of lamb dishes
This is a list of lamb and mutton dishes and foods. Lamb and mutton are terms for the meat of domestic sheep (species ''Ovis aries'') at different ages. A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a j ...
* Rocky Mountain oysters
Rocky Mountain oysters or mountain oysters, or meat balls, also known as prairie oysters in Canada (french: animelles), is a dish made of bull testicles. The organs are often deep-fried after being skinned, coated in flour, pepper and salt, and ...
* Testicle (food)
The testicles of Calf (animal), calves, sheep, lambs, roosters, turkey as food, turkeys, and other animals are eaten in many parts of the world, often under euphemism, euphemistic culinary names. Testicles are a by-product of the Stag (castrate ...
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