I had a girlfriend way back when that tried to get me to try balut. I almost did, then I decided not to haha.

I go deer hunting. I have no problem shooting and processing a deer, but I do get grossed out eating something that's staring at me. I guess as long as it doesn't look like anything alive when I start cooking it, I don't have a problem... Then again I can cook a pig on a spit... I guess I have to give this recipe a try.

Your smiley/frowny faces are hilarious on the sheep though.

It's a cultural thing, I guess. Funny but true, here I freak because of your stew and my wife just freaked not 20 mins ago because I served her a Cornish Hen and it still "looked like a baby animal". ;-)

Yeah I recently moved to pakistan from the US and got to see bakra eid when they sacrifice all the animals. The streets were filled with blood and animal organs for weeks.

sweet *considering seeing that*

I do realize how the food gets to us.. I've just never been one for cleaning animals or anything. I prefer it prepackaged.. It's just a thing with me that I don't like to eat things I've either known personally and named.. or are looking at me. haha! It was pretty funny how you added the faces to the sheepy picture though.. haha ;x

But I know my grandparents in Turkey chop chickhens and cows.I see cow bones all over the place when I go there.

Heh,yes we are. Thanks.

"all the solids"? As in, the meaty bits that fall off the head and all that? I'd be tempted to wrap up the head like a bouquet garni so you just had the stock (after all, soup is made from weirder stuff).
_{I just mistyped "had" as "head". wt actual f}

Apparently pig's head was a popular breakfast dish with the British nobility a few hundred years ago, but I think they went more for a slice of cheek or something than an entire boiled head.

Also, what does the label say in step 1? Other than "HEAD!"?

I'm pretty sure thats called head cheese. We boil the meat off the heads add some spices and let it set up. Spread it on crackers or toast and mmhmm! Delicious!

OK, so the end product doesn't actually look much like dead sheep's head but is actually just a meat soup? That's not at all as freaky. That lame-o cracked.com article completely misrepresented this dish.