On 2017-03-26 9:48 AM, jmcquown wrote:

> Fortunately I can find "ox tails" but yes, the price is exhorbitant. I
> had to laugh a couple of years ago while talking with a neighbor. I
> mentioned I was making ox tail soup. He had no idea what it was. Then
> again, he doesn't cook. When I told him ox tails are, essentially, the
> beefy part of a cow's tail he cringed. LOL
>

My son won't eat ox tails because he says it comes from too close to the
cow's ass. Having grown up in the country I am surprised that he would
reject it on that basis. He has certainly seen enough cattle in the
fields to know that they usually have a lot of manure all over them.