Mountain Oysters (1862)

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:31 PM -0400 5/6/04, Sam Clements wrote:
>From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:20 PM
>Subject: Mountain Oysters (1862)
>
>
>>     I've been re-checking the progress of Colorado's Historic Newspaper
>>  Collection, and I'm proud to say that I now discovered that I have better
>balls:
>
>While yours are older, they are not necessarily better.
>
Well, these are sound very tasty to me, including the soused eels'
feet (on whatever parsing was intended), but I was wondering if
"prairie oyster" is earlier or later than the (Rocky) mountain
variety.

Larry