Stepchild of the menu?

My friend Erns Grundling went to sample some sheep's head at a world record attempt in a small town of South Africa. My attempt at an English transcription is below the video.

Stepchild of the menu?

Erik de Milander, organiser: Hino Citrusdal/Clanwilliam Toyota Sheep's Head Eating World Record Attempt

EdM: Our goal today is to prepare and of course enjoy eating more than 500 sheep's heads here on this fine premises of the Bushman's Cave Bergteater. Now, we started this morning with a few guests of honour whom we specially invited to this event—just people from old age homes in the surrounding towns and those who maybe grew up with sheep's heads in former years, but who no longer have the privilege and opportunity to eat it these days as a result of maybe the availability and also because it has become sort of outmoded to eat sheep's head.

Woman1: Already from childhood days we learnt to eat sheep's heads.

Woman2: I'm really looking forward to eating this little tongue. I've got a real craving for it.

Man1: I eat everything, the eye and the heart and everything I eat. It's just here where it comes to the snotkoeker* that the business isn't so pleasant there.

Man2: Very tasty.

EdM: This "stepchild of the menu" is a king's feast which we're partaking of here today and man, I'm telling you, I've already polished off two of these [heads] today. I don't think I'll eat again before Tuesday because I'm quite satisfied.

Erns Grundling, Weg-journalist

EG: The sheep's eye guys. Here we go.

EG: The eye was a bit weird, it tasted like marrow, I just kept telling myself 'it's marrow, marrow, marrow'. And then I had the brains for dessert which... they always call the brains the pudding. Now initially it tasted a bit like—I just got the idea of plaque, because it had a sort of strange, sticky consistency. I did my part for the record attempt, let's see what number we reach by the end of today's proceedings.

EdM: We got 546 sheep's heads from sheep, prepared them, and we cooked it on one day, and presented it to our guests, ready to eat.

Total eaten: 438.

EdM: We're back next year in all our glory and then we're really going to try for that last pushover try (EG: in injury time) —in injury time, we'll score.

Video: Le Roux Schoeman and Erns Grundling.

*I'm going to go ahead and assume the man means penis.

Stiefkind van die spyskaart?

Erik de Milander, organiseerder: Hino Citrusdal/Clanwilliam Toyota Skaapkopeet-wêreldrekordpoging

EdM: Ons doel is vandag om meer as 500 skaapkoppe op hierdie pragtige perseel van die Bushman's Cave Bergteater voor te berei en natuurlik nou te geniet. Nou ons het vanoggend begin met so klompie eregaste van ons wat ons spesiaal uitgenooi het vir hierdie geleentheid—sommer so mense van die omliggende dorpe se ouetehuise en dies wat miskien vroeër jare grootgeword het met skaapkoppe, maar wat vandag nie meer die voorreg en geleentheid het om dit te eet nie, as gevolg van miskien die beskikbaarheid en ook omdat dit half uit die mode uit geraak het om skaapkop te eet.

Vrou1: Al van kindsdae af het ons geleer om skaapkoppe te eet.

Vrou2: Ek sien baie uit om hierdie tongetjie te eet. Ek is baie lus vir daai tongetjie.

Man1: Ek eet alles, die oog en die hart en alles eet ek. Dis nou net hier—wat hier by die snotkoeker wat die besigheid nou nie so lekker is daarso nie.

Man2: Baie lekker.

EdM: Hierdie "stiefkind van die spyskaart" is 'n koningsmaal wat ons vandag hierso geniet en man, ek sê nou vir jou, ek het nou al vandag twee van hulle verorber. Ek dink nie ek gaan weer voor Dinsdag eet nie want ek is redelik versadig.

Erns Grundling, Weg-joernalis

EG: Die skaap se oog ouens. Hier gaan ons.

EG: Die oog was bietjie weird, dit het soos murg geproe, ek't net heeltyd vir myself gesê 'dis murg, murg, murg'. En toe't ek die harsings vir nagereg gehad wat... hulle noem altyd die brein die poeding. Nou aanvanklik het dit vir my bietjie soos—ek't net die idee van plaak gekry, want dit het so half 'n vreemde, taai consistency gehad. Ek't my deel gedoen vir die rekordpoging, kom ons kyk by watter getal ons uitkom aan die einde van die verrigtinge.

EdM: Ons het 546 skaapkoppe van skape af gekry, voorberei, en ons het dit op een dag gaargemaak en, gereed om te eet, aangebied vir ons gaste.

Totaal geeet: 438.

EdM: Ons is volgende jaar terug in al ons glorie en dan gaan ons nou werklik probeer om daai laaste oorstoot drie (EG: in beseringstyd) —in beseringstyd dan nou 'n val aan te teken.

Video: Le Roux Schoeman en Erns Grundling.