The Turk’s Head is also the name given to a savory pie popular in Britain and France during the Elizabethan period that represented a cannibalistic feast of Turkish flesh. Typically, this pie was a grotesque caricature of a Turk or Saracen’s face. By eating it, Christians consumed the enemy in an act of symbolic cannibalism. Its roots lie in a fictitious narrative of Christians eating Saracens in the medieval romance Richard Couer de Lion.

FICTION: A historical pie crafted as an enemy's face and eaten as symbolic victory is a vivid, usable detail for historical or horror fiction — could seed a scene of ceremonial consumption and enmity made edible.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 330