Preparing sheep's heads: a local delicacy in Langa Township, Cape Town, South Africa

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They look gruesome, eyes open, teeth grinning, on makeshift tables supported by large oil drums, but sheep's heads, prepared at the roadside and roasted over an open fire, are a local delicacy in Langa Township and a reminder that boiling sheep heads for their brains has been a delicacy in the UK. A woman plucks the wool from one head over a waste oil drum, while her colleague, using an axe on a round wooden block, splits open a head, to extract the brains, which are not eaten.

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Location: Langa Township, Cape Town, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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