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"The judges gathered around the pool table at the Union Brewery Saloon, their palates attuned despite thick nicotine haze. They were here to assess the taste, texture, appearance and creative flair of a not-for-the-faint-of-heart culinary tradition known as the mountain oyster — the Wild West on a plate."

So begins an article in the Travel Section (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/us/18oyster.html) that describes last weekends event at Virginia City.