Sheep's head cooking

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, OK, so it's a lamb going to slaughter. I get that. Doesn't mean you have to treat it like Jimmy fucking Hoffa.  Goddamn.  #LambchopSleepsWithDaFishes

[LaCroix]

Waste not want not.

but everyone wastes a little. eating the nasty bits nobody ever eats simply to not waste. where does it stop? mcdonald ketchup packets rather than waste $ on the bottle?

I bet the non (comparatively) impoverished cavemen tossed away some parts

[Barrister]

I bet the non (comparatively) impoverished cavemen tossed away some parts

Umm, hunter/gatherers invariably use every last bit of an animal.

[Monoriu]

Chinese love eating fish heads.  It is said that the meat in those parts is the most tender.  Never heard of eating sheeps head. 

[LaCroix]

Umm, hunter/gatherers invariably use every last bit of an animal.

all cavemen, no matter how well off the cave, used every morsel and bit of animal, every single time?

how do you know?

[Eddie Teach]

Feed the nasty bits to the pigs/dogs/whatever.

[LaCroix]

Feed the nasty bits to the pigs/dogs/whatever.

that falls under tossed away

[sbr]

Feed the nasty bits to the pigs/dogs/whatever.

that falls under tossed away

Not necessarily.  If you have to feed the pigs/dogs/whatever and would have to expend energy to find them something else to eat, feeding them bits of a leftover animal is using it productively.

[CountDeMoney]

How about waiting for shit to grow up first before killing it and chopping its fucking head off for a soup bone. Goddamn.

[PDH]

Actually, I would not be surprised if foragers didn't eat every part of an animal - with a low population and good methods to gather resources they likely had surpluses at times, thus the domestication of dogs.

Now farmers, they HAD to use everything because often time they were closer to the edge of starvation.  Also, blood sausage needs a cookpot after all.

[CountDeMoney]

[Barrister]

Actually, I would not be surprised if foragers didn't eat every part of an animal - with a low population and good methods to gather resources they likely had surpluses at times, thus the domestication of dogs.

Now farmers, they HAD to use everything because often time they were closer to the edge of starvation.  Also, blood sausage needs a cookpot after all.

I know you are a might PhD, while all I have is a lowly LL.B. and B.Sc., but I didn't say hunter-gatherers "eat" every part of an animal - I said they "use" every part of an animal.  And feeding dogs certainly counts as "use".

[Martinus]

Feed the nasty bits to the pigs/dogs/whatever.

that falls under tossed away

Not necessarily.  If you have to feed the pigs/dogs/whatever and would have to expend energy to find them something else to eat, feeding them bits of a leftover animal is using it productively.

Messrs Creutzfeldt and Jakob send their regards.

[garbon]

Anyway, is it a waste? Presumably it'll decompose and become something else.

[Brazen]

The traditional Welsh dish Cawl was originally made from sheep's head. You need to marinade it in salt water for a day beforehand.

Here's a Moroccan recipe that looks tasty:
http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/moroccanoffalrecipes/r/steamed_sheep_head.htm