So I'm trying to find an affordable bully stick brand to subscribe to and reading reviews.

Came across this.

I feel confident both water and vinegar are actually chemicals.

I mean the price of bully sticks though. Like beef penis bone is suddenly gold.

Also how can bully sticks be made from cattle penis if bulls don't have an os penis or baculum.

Ah. It's not a bone. See I figured.

I have spent enough time looking at bully sticks that I was like "that can't be a bone".

I'm just trying to figure out what specific part of cattle anatomy it is. I mean I figured it was a muscle because of how it breaks down.

Also I am now looking at a lot of pictures of bull penises because I was trying to understand anatomy and wow they get a lot of warts.

It seems like if you have a really long penis you have a lot more penis to have problems.

Is what I'm learning from these pictures of bull penises.

I think we all lost out by me not going to veterinary school. I could have livetweeted it.

Ow ow ow I have never even had a penis and ow. This bull accidentally stepped on his own preputial prolapse and traumatically amputated it.

Okay so actually I think a bully stick really is literally a dried up bull penis.

The pictures in this blog post are why. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/02/chongqing-style-beef-penis-with-wolfberries-recipe.html

CN: animal slaughter, butchery

I mean basically when butchering the carcass, they (whomever) will remove the penis, clean it and hang it up to drain fluids and dry out and presumably stretch in the process.

I'm unclear on if "cleaned" includes skinned.

See, what I was confused about is obviously bully sticks are fairly thin and also inflexible whereas you'd assume bull penises would be much thicker and also flexible.

But it makes sense if you account for the drying process.

Anyway I actually approve of using all the parts of the animal so I like bully sticks especially in theory.

In practice, I assume that increased popularity has made bully sticks less sustainable than they once were.

Good important tip for bully sticks. Esme has been using a West Paw Qwizl for the last week and I really like it for her. https://twitter.com/eyelidlessness/status/1386176629483851777

Also I wonder how people figured out bully sticks. Like did they just randomly throw a bull penis over a tree to hang out there and forgot about it?

Come back weeks later to discover "Oh hey this is a different texture and not e.g. soup"?

Also some people make pizzle walking canes and I'm not sure I would trust my weight to one of those. Unless it had been extremely reinforced.

Wow this thread uses the word "penis" a lot.

Also I just realized that no one in my little family has a penis.

Like obviously I knew that but it just hit me. We're very one-note with reproductive anatomy in here.