Huckleberries: Rocky Mountain Oysters, anyone?

We’ll begin Huckleberries today with a word association game. You say: Tom Richards. Huckleberries responds: Snake Pit. Or Enaville Resort. You say: Snake Pit. Huckleberries says: Rocky Mountain Oysters. Testicles. And it may go further downhill from there. Why is Huckleberries bringing this up today? Tom Richards jumped into Lake Coeur d’Alene on New Year’s Day with hundreds of his closest friends. He’s a three-time polar bear. And he’s the owner/manager of the historic Snake Pit restaurant at Enaville, Idaho, which serves Rocky Mountain Oysters. Which also was a house of prostitution way back when. But that’s fodder for another Huckleberries column. Tom has breathed life back into the Snake Pit, after it was about to go under following the 2012 deaths of former owners Joe and Rose Mary Peak. The “oysters” were a staple at the Snake Pit from at least 1954 to 2012, according to Tom. Who brought them back in spring 2015. On the Snake Pit Facebook page, you can find the “Rocky Mountain Oyster Hall of Fame with, according to Tom, “306 photos of customers stuffing their mouths full of bull balls.” Jerry Bass, formerly of Bass Western World, is among those in the Snake Pit hall of fame. You don’t have to be in the hall of fame to advertise the Western delicacy. Tom’s daughter has designed a new T-shirt with a slogan that says: “I Had a Ball at The Snake Pit.” Is your mouth watering yet?/ DFO . Huckleberries print column for Thursday. More here .

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Question: Have you eaten a Rocky Mountain oyster?