英语词汇prairie oysters的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

prairie oysters; mountain oysters. In a country where the prudish have called the bull “a cow’s father,” “a cow creature,” “a male cow,” “a Jonathan,” and “a gentleman cow,” it is no wonder that there are so many euphemisms for bulls’ testicles. In French and Spanish restaurants bulls’ balls are sometimes called just that on the menus, but in America, when they are offered, they’re invariably labeled either “prairie oysters,” “mountain oysters,” “Rocky Mountain oysters,” or “Spanish kidneys.” Be- lieved to be an elevating aphrodisiac dish despite their low ori- gins, bulls’ balls are probably no more than a psychological aph- rodisiac. But French neurologist Charles Brown-Dequard, who founded the much disputed “science” of organotherapy in 1889, thought differently. He claimed that both he and his patients had greatly enhanced their sexual prowess by eating bulls’ testi- cles. The 70-year-old scientist went so far as to transplant bulls’ testicles under the abdominal walls of patients, but it has since been established that testicles cannot store sex hormones such as testosterone and that when transplanted they wither and die.

词汇	prairie oysters
词源	prairie oysters; mountain oysters. In a country where the prudish have called the bull “a cow’s father,” “a cow creature,” “a male cow,” “a Jonathan,” and “a gentleman cow,” it is no wonder that there are so many euphemisms for bulls’ testicles. In French and Spanish restaurants bulls’ balls are sometimes called just that on the menus, but in America, when they are offered, they’re invariably labeled either “prairie oysters,” “mountain oysters,” “Rocky Mountain oysters,” or “Spanish kidneys.” Be- lieved to be an elevating aphrodisiac dish despite their low ori- gins, bulls’ balls are probably no more than a psychological aph- rodisiac. But French neurologist Charles Brown-Dequard, who founded the much disputed “science” of organotherapy in 1889, thought differently. He claimed that both he and his patients had greatly enhanced their sexual prowess by eating bulls’ testi- cles. The 70-year-old scientist went so far as to transplant bulls’ testicles under the abdominal walls of patients, but it has since been established that testicles cannot store sex hormones such as testosterone and that when transplanted they wither and die.
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