My lucky day
And I thought gutting a turkey was gross.
I took a nice sunny stroll around the neighborhood on the lookout for this bayram I’ve been hearing about. The infamous sacrificial holiday. But since Im posted up in a pretty ritzy complex, I had to go on a search, following the smallest dirtiest roads I could find. And thats just where I found this prize.
Oh, uhh okay. Hm. Wow. The head was upside down? Thanks for grabbing it like a ball and flipping it over for me. Really.
Much better. Appreciate it. Now he's ready for his close up.
It was like a car accident, you didnt want to look but you couldnt look away. Luckily I got to the scene of the crime post sacrafice, otherwise I think this would have ended up a completely different experience. I felt a little out of place being a white girl with a camera imposing myself in the middle of this family’s holiday but I had to. This couldn’t go undocumented. Thinking about it, they probably thought it was funny that I wanted to take pictures of it. Shocking this american girl who’s never seen anything slaughtered. Yeah. They liked it.
I’m glad they decided to keep things sanitary and put a paper thin tarp down. You dont want to take any chances you know. Safety first. And this is happening in a place where you are not allowed to enter a home without taking off your shoes and immediately putting on clean slippers, in a place where floors are washed daily literally on hands and knees, in a place where crumbs are carefully picked off the floor with a clean napkin. But go head darling and slaughter that sheep outside in the dirt. Here, take the childrens play bucket to throw the meat in. They can do without for a few days.
Sweet dreams lamp chop
The holiday lasts for about 4 days. But now its almost over. Its been fun, like a Turkish thanksgiving. Exchanging invitations for meal-get togethers, sending desserts, sharing recipes, bbq’s, the whole nine. Minus the turkey. You think if you were to find a turkey anywhere in the world it would be in turkey. Instead you find this.
