A testicle festival is an event where the featured activity is the consumption of animal testicles, usually battered and fried. [1]
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The oldest of such festivals takes place in Byron, Illinois, [2] and features turkey testicles. Similar festivals in the US are held in Deerfield, Michigan; Olean, Missouri; Tiro, Ohio; Oakdale, California; Ashland, Nebraska; Huntley, Illinois; Stillwater, Oklahoma; [3] Salmon, Idaho; [4] Clinton, Montana; Suring, Wisconsin, Dundas, Wisconsin, LaValle, Wisconsin, Severance, Colorado, and Bentonville, Arkansas, [5] some of which feature Rocky mountain oysters (cattle testicles). [6] [7] The Montana State Society has held an annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival in Clinton, Montana, since 2005. [8]
Every year in September, the villages of Ozrem and Lunjevica in the municipality of Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, host the World Gonad Cooking Championship. [9] The festival serves up a variety of testicles, including wildlife. It also gives awards for "ballsy" newsmakers. U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama and pilot Chesley Sullenberger won awards in 2010. [10]