Around Halloween, the local deli counter at the supermarket places a bunch of severed plastic fingers around the cold cuts. It's kind of gross, but people are pretty good-humored about it and it makes the kids squeal.

I think it would be cool to take it a step further and make a bologna in the shape of a severed head. The rind could be skin-coloured, and the inside could be done in layers of different types of tasty cheese to represent bone and brain cross-sections.

Once an order was filled, the head would be placed back in the deli case. I would use a couple of bologna heads and slice them from different angles to determine the most horrible effect.

This could also be done with bologna forearms, pressed ham feet, etc.
-- nomocrow, Sep 23 2008

head cheese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
[xandram, Sep 24 2008]

_22My_20ears_20are_20alight_22 [hippo, Sep 24 2008]

She's got a chicken to ride, http://www.rathergood.com/chicken/
and she don't care. [nomocrow, Sep 24 2008]

Marvellous. Could give a whole new meaning to "half a dozen slices of tongue". [+]
-- 8th of 7, Sep 23 2008


Already done, to an extent, with chorizo... a mix of pork mince, garlic, paprika, chili, salt, vinegar and oregano.

It's not uncommon to see it moulded into shapes, like pig's heads, in markets in the southern US & Mexico.
-- UnaBubba, Sep 23 2008


Could it be a vegetarian severed head, as opposed to a vegetarian's severed head?
-- nineteenthly, Sep 24 2008


+ but why not use *head cheese*?
-- xandram, Sep 24 2008


As in the song: "Darling cheese-head, you were yards too greasy" (see link)
-- hippo, Sep 24 2008


//Could it be a vegetarian severed head, as opposed to a vegetarian's severed head?//

that would be good!
-- up_on_cloud_nine, Sep 24 2008


I dunno, trauma may result in particularly weak children; forever implementing canibalism into the collective unconscious of the present day, and the realized dark future of tomorrow.
-- daseva, Oct 22 2008



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