It’s almost Halloween, so you know what that means: Time to eat brains!

What? You prefer candy?

Pansies. Instead of trick-or-treating, we got our zombie on, tasting how different cultures dine on grey matter. First stop on the tasting trek: St Anselm’s chef Al Bacchiochi deep-fried some fresh cow lobes for us. Then we looked back at the lamb’s head we demolished at Astoria’s Greek restaurant Uncle George’s and the guinea pig brain we ate in one bite at El Pequeno, an Ecuadorian joint in Queens that spit-roasts the whole rodent. For dessert, we stopped at Manhattan’s Chez Napoleon to sample the traditional French dish cervelle de veau—aka calf brains cooked with butter and capers. If zombies had a passport, this is how they’d gastro-tour.

And finally, just a quick note about the video above: Like all skull contents seen in this episode, the cerebrums we’re holding in the opening zombie shot are actual cow brains. Let us be clear: No stunt brains were used in the filming of this video!

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Greece via Astoria: Biting a Lamb’s Face Off
Ecuador via Jackson Heights: Eating Laura’s Childhood Pet