Eid el Kabir: Cleaning Up and Food Prep (Rated PG-13)

**WARNING: Some of these pics are just plain nasty!**

Once the sheep are slaughtered and skinned, the real dirty work begins. A layer of fat is rinsed in water....

Then it's hung on a clothesline...

This is to be used later for the skewers of liver wrapped in fat.

The liver is the first organ cleaned because it's the first one eaten. The heart, lungs, kidneys, and spleen are all cleaned out and set aside to barbecue for breakfast the next morning.

The grossest part was the one I participated in: the digestive system. Check out this tub o' organs - yes, that is poop.

The stomachs were split open and poop placed into a garbage bag. Then, they were put in a bucket of water to be rinsed.

I got talked into helping with the intestine. Kind of like cleaning out a sausage casing, but instead of rinsing salt & water, I had to push poop through and out to the garbage bag. The family got a real kick out of me partaking in this part of the tradition, so they took a bunch of pics of me doing the dirty work.

Next installment: what we actually consumed. :)