On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 09:53:32 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>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.

Then he wouldn't eat any cuts from along the alimentary canal, that
leaves pitifully little other than jellied hooves, providing she
hasn't stepped in cow flop.

>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.

If you've ever seen a cow excreate you'd know that she raises her tail
and spews a good six feet, nothing on her.