Some people might say that they think a cart full of innards and heads is gross, repulsive, revolting, sick. But me, I find it fascinating. Like I said in the last post, if it were a cart piled with human heads or kitten heads or puppy heads, I would be outraged and sickened and wouldn't be able to look, but these, these animals, they were bred right from the beginning for this purpose. They never had any other purpose in life than a trip to the slaughterhouse so someone could have some sustenance. And of course, as always, this trolley (anything butcher-related, really) fascinates me. We used to always cut the tongues out of the animals we slaughtered. Some people liked to use them as fishing bait, and some old-timers liked to boil and slice them to make sandwiches. But as you can see, here in Mongolia, they do not cut the tongues out of the heads. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Mongolians like to boil an animal's head whole, and then cut chunks of meat off of it. I'm just speculating, but maybe, in that case, just maybe the tongue might be a special treat.
ETA: Just yesterday, I was walking around downtown Ulaanbaatar, and I saw three street dogs stop in turn to sniff at something on the sidewalk. I got a little closer to see what this something was, and it was none other than an animal skull which had been boiled and picked clean! Only in Ulaanbaatar can you find animal skulls laying around on the sidewalk and nobody looks twice because they don't see anything abnormal about that.
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