Ophelia wrote:

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> "sanne" wrote in message
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> Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2018 11:25:15 UTC+1 schrieb Ophelia:
> > "Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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> > On 1/9/2018 3:18 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 10:09:21 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
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> >>> In the US what's sold as oxtail is actually cow tail.
> > >
> >> I know. My dad told me that when I was a kid. When was the last
> time you >> saw oxen in the United States? I guess they have some in
> Texas. Perhaps >> there are some where Paul Bunyan lives. I just know
> that one of ya'alls >> going to be insisting oxen are all over the
> place in America. It's what >> yoose guys do.
> > >
> >
> > I'd not kid about something like that, we do have oxen all over in
> > the mainland. I just went out for the mail and had to chase a
> > couple out of my driveway. You should have seen their tails too,
> > very big. You can cut the tails off and they grow another one in a
> > few months. Most every restaurant here has ox tail stew on the
> > menu since it is so plentiful.
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> > Do they do that??? ... cut off their tails?
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> Usually not - "only" their Rocky Mountain oysters before they're
> called oxen.
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> Bye, Sanne.
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> ==
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> Oh lovely ... I hope they are well anesthetized ..

The cleanest translation of Oxen (or an Ox) is a castrated working
bull. There are 2 types truely defined as Oxen but the term in the USA
is applied to any working bull used for ploughing and such things. I'm
not saying that many here farm that way (maybe the Amish do still?).

Sheldon was correct that the 'Ox tail' here is from a bull though
technically a cow can also be trained to be a working cow and so fall
under 'Ox'. I guess it sounds better to say 'Ox tail' than 'Cow/Bull
tail' so it's labeled that.

Very good chance if DS1 found one in Hawaii, it came from mainland USA.

Around here, best place to find them is in the Asian groceries.

Carol