A food you like that other people find so disgusting...

[Ikonoklast]

20. Does that bring back memories. The first job I ever had as a kid was working in a meat market.

We had a large ethnic clientele, and one of the reasons for that was our large offal counter.

One of the many items we sold were lamb's heads, and most of the customers wanted them split in two.

It was dangerous to do so on a meat band saw, as the cranial bones were very hard, and as the head was rounded it always tried to spin as you would pass it throught the saw, taking your fingers with it.

So, the best way to split the lamb's head was to grab a meat cleaver, turn the head upside-down with the jawbone pointing toward you, positioning the heel of the blade firmly between the lower jaw.

You then picked up the head and cleaver together, just above shoulder height for best leverage, and with all your might bring head and cleaver down together on the wooden butcher block with a resounding WHACK!

If you did it right, you got two perfect clean halves on the very first try.

I got pretty good at it.

Hog heads were done pretty much the same way, but damn, those bad boys were heavy.

For New Years, we used to sell a ton of those floppy-eared bastids.