He’s having a ball.
A human caveman who ate raw steak for 100 days straight is getting roasted after revealing he feeds his one-year-old son raw testicles.
However, he defended his tot’s taste, claiming that it was a way to diversify his diet and that it’s his “favorite food.”
“I think babies now have a natural sense of knowing what’s good with food,” Pauly Long, 31, told Caters News Agency of his tyke’s experience with testicle tartare.
The Pennsylvania native, who now lives in Bali, Indonesia with his wife, first adopted a raw meat diet several years ago after developing stomach issues.
“I wanted to experiment and see how I felt, and also show the public that eating raw meat is perfectly safe,” the carne ceviche connoisseur declared.
Fast forward several years later, and Long became a social media sensation for his feats of al dente eating, including a 100-day raw beef binge, and eating raw organs from the liver to the genitals like a Paleolithic offal gourmand.
The so-called “Testicle King” frequently shares videos detailing his raw food feats and philosophy with his millions of followers on social media.
It appears he wanted his son, to follow in his footsteps and partake in this form of raw gonad gastronomy.
After feeding him raw liver for his inaugural raw meal at a year old, Long decided to have the tyke graduate to bull genitals for his second bite.
“He then tried raw testicle a few months ago,” Long explained while describing throwing down the teste. “He loves it. It’s like actually one of his favorite things.”
An accompanying TikTok video with 1.6 million views shows the daddy slicing up a bull ball and feeding it to his progeny.
The kid devours the gloopy brown insides — which look a lot like baby food — before crying when it’s all gone as his bemused father exclaims, “I don’t have any more testicle for you.”
Many TikTok commenters found the stunt might seem nuts, with many advising him not to feed him it while others wondered if it was bad for the baby.
However, the Pennsylvanian doesn’t regret going balls to the wall with his tyke’s diet.
“I did my research — I made sure I was very, very confident with my decision before letting my son eat raw meat,” the die-hard carnivore declared. “This was not an experiment with him.”
He added, “When it comes to food, if babies don’t like something or it doesn’t feel right, they’re going to spit it out for the most part.”
The “Testicle King” claimed that much of the hate stems from the fact that raw meat eating is unfairly maligned, explaining: “A really common myth about consuming raw meat that everyone thinks is that it’s going to make you sick and give you salmonella.”
“It’s very unlikely actually because most raw meat has very active enzymes in it, which are really good for your body. You lose a lot of those in the cooking process,” he added, hoping to dispel the alleged stigma.
“What I’ve learned is that if you get your raw meat from a quality source and it’s preserved properly, 99% of the time you’re fine. I had food poisoning about three times last year and it was always from restaurants.”
In general, experts advise against consuming raw meat, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that “eating raw and undercooked meat and poultry can make you sick.”
According to UCLA Health, consuming raw meat can lead to food-borne illnesses like E. Coli — however, Long insists that his son “never had any issues.”
“In fact, the first time he had raw testicle, he slept really good that night too, which I thought was pretty cool,” gushed the proud father.
The beef carpaccio buff said he would’ve started his son’s Cro Magnon eating regimen earlier if his wife hadn’t put the kibosh on it.
“She would not let me — it was a ‘happy wife, happy life’ type situation, so we waited a little longer,” lamented Long, who clarified that he never foisted raw foods on his kin.
“When he first tried liver, it was because he saw me eating it,” the accused pate pusher insisted. “I was sitting there eating it, and he would not back down. So I said, ‘Here you go,’ and he just ate it right up. Then he asked for more and more.”
Like a microcosm of how human eating habits evolved over time, Long no longer subsists exclusively on raw meat.
“Sometimes I crave a nice cooked burger,” declared the Indonesian expat, who says both his and his son’s diets are pretty varied.
He frequently posts TikTok videos showing him and his kin chowing on seared steak, and other delicacies that have undergone a trial by fire.
“He’s just a little machine and he’s always hungry,” fawned Long. “He will walk over to the fridge, tell us to open it, and then he points to all the fruit on the on the bottom shelf. If I take a steak out and he sees it, he’ll chirp for some.”
And this diverse diet has seemingly paid dividends as his son is “much bigger than other kids his age.”
The one thing Long doesn’t want his toddler to try? Junk food (at least the non-testicular variety). “My wife will give him a little a little rip off of like her toast or cinnamon bun or whatever, and I’m like, ‘Don’t give him it,'” the parent said. “When I was his age, I used to eat chicken nuggets and all that s–t.”
He added, “I grew up with such a f–ked up diet, and I think it had a lot of long-term health effects on my body. I don’t want to see my kid have to deal with that.”
Ultimately, Long says he’s just happy that his pride and joy is “eating whole foods and that’s how we intend to keep it for as long as we can.”
“Obviously, he’s going to get to a point where he’s gonna make his own decisions, but at least while he’s young, I want him to have as good of a diet as possible,” the meat eater said.
