> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 09:53:32 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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>>On 2017-03-26 9:48 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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>>> 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.


That's not always true at all. Have you ever milked cows?

Cheri