# Serving animal dishes with the head attached...ewww...why?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 17, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serving-animal-dishes-with-the-head-attached-ewww-why/933156 "2021-02-17T19:40:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serving-animal-dishes-with-the-head-attached-ewww-why/933156/82 "2021-02-18T20:41:04Z")

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Here’s another take on the anatomy lesson inherent in eating certain parts of certain critters:

> [@I guess I \_do\_ cause animal deaths when I eat pre-killed meat.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/718450/20):
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> Related mini - tangent … In college back in the Olden Dayes we once invited the girls from the apartment next door over for a cookout. Stereotypically, all four boys had hamburgers or steak and all four girls brought various chicken parts. I was dissecting my medium rare sirloin & chatting with my favorite neighbor who was eating a chicken breast with rib meat & ribs attached. This was back before Tyson had discovered the “boneless skinless” or “tender” portions of standard chicken anatomy. …

Agree the OP has a particularly bad case of skeleton anguish. Back in college I bought a sheep head at the Latino grocery store, cast it in clear fiberglass resin, and used it as a doorstop. It was quite a “conversation piece”. The older it got inside that hermetic plastic block the more interesting it got.

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