logovo | Food with eyes

At the farmer's market I got a whole chicken. When offered the neck, head, feet, liver and heart I said yes. Actually, since not everyone wants those parts, I ended up with an extra set of everything. Right now, as I was preparing the extra parts for stock, I was taken aback by my reaction to the heads. It was damn weird, unexpectedly so, since I'm not one to make a big deal out of eating some animal parts that other people might find pretty unappealing. But chicken heads, I'd never touched one before or made it into food. There was this big disconnect between my brain telling me, yes, this is food, to ARGH! THIS WAS AN INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS ALIVE ONLY A DAY OR TWO AGO! IT HAS EYES! ARGH!!!!

I did actually pulled up the eyelid of one of the chicken heads and proceeded to mentally slap myself, thinking I was being a bit silly. But yes, I might have no problem in eating whole fish, tongue or brain tacos, or seeing a pig head sortta floating inside a pozole pot, but these chicken heads... Oh my.