The Turk’s Head pie dehumanizes Muslims by reducing them to a consumed, deformed pastry.

Evidence

The Turk’s Head pie functions as a symbol of Richard’s fictitious cannibalistic meal, a retelling of “the spectacle of severed Saracens’ heads, stripped of hair, cooked, and laid out, face up and grinning, on serving platters.” This imagery says something meaningful about the ways in which Muslims are dehumanized. In the case of the Turk’s Head pie, the subject is figuratively decapitated, chopped up, cooked, and eaten, reducing him to a pastry that displays a deformed image of the creature he once was. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how the Turk’s Head symbol operates as dehumanization mechanistically — literal processing into food.