Bull "taint"

Well Curtis, you can have those two extra cuts from any of my bulls that I would happen to butcher. Never been keen on those two cuts, but I give them to the neighbor most times. > Thanks Marc

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I heard the same comments from a friend when I didn't band my twin Highland x angus bulls. I told him he was wrong but of course he didn't believe me.
Some people are just set in their ways.
I did research it some and also got the results that most people like it just fine.
I work in a small grocery store and we get 60 lb frozen chunks of bull meat to make Hamburger out of that is almost like ground round. Very ,very lean and most people swear it's the best they ever had. Most of the time it's from NZ,Australia,Argentina,Uruguay and whatever but always the same quality meat!

I will be picking up a 3 year old bull Thursday. He is mostly hamburger, but will be tasty.

For some reason people have a great desire to tell other people why what they are doing is going to turn out bad. When my husband started hunting turkeys everyone around told him to just breast them out cause the rest of the meat would be worthless. I told him if he was going to be hunting animals we were going to use all the meat. The turkey turned out great & we've cooked everyone whole since then. They said the same about pheasants (breast them out) goose (don't even bother) and the big old buck he shot (just make some jerkey) - we ate that whole fella, but we worried before the first grilling that he would be as bad and stinky and gamey as everyone said... He was delicious!

When I started raising goats people made fun of my husband for letting me get them. Saying that if he could ever get me to butcher one we wouldn't like the meat... I mean have you seen the look people make when they say "goat meat"? This past weekend when I finished processing our first goat out in the shed I told folks that I'd always thought they would taste like venison - and as I butchered it I sure did think it smelled just like the fresh deer I've butchered. Sure enough we grilled that loin and our whole family loved it! It is just as wonderful as venison and we can have it any time of year without having to set out in the freezing cold before dawn waiting for a deer to wander by.

SO... the moral of the story is - if they haven't seen how the animal lived, how it died, how it was butchered, how it was stored and how it was prepared.... Well then they can't exactly say for certain the bad taste in their mouth was because the animal still had it's balls.

Now I don't know that I've ever eaten a bull, nor can I say I haven't - but why would it be any different than any of the other male animals we've eaten?