Fake Boar's Head Needed - Urgently!

[jourdain2]

Complicated, but we are singing 'The Boar's Head Carol' on Sunday ( a rousing, quaffing ditty) and wanted to lift a boar's head on a platter at the end. No prob. in France. The squeamish amongst us have vetoed a roasted pig's head with added tusks. I have tried to make a papier-mache head with dubious results.

Any ideas or suggestions as to a supplier before I come down to finding a pig-mask and a balloon ------please!

[fiction-factory]

I thought this was going t be another Cameron story when i saw the title

[jourdain2]

Haha! The squeamish would veto it, I'm afraid, Jordyboy.

[fiction-factory]

You beat me to it jordy. I'm expecting Bouncer to come along soon.
Sorry i haven't been able to help

[Togo]

A photo of John Prescott?

[jno]

this one's going cheap but not very cheap

http://www.woodpeckerinteriors.co.uk/boar-head/28220?gclid=CJTgp8aRyMkCFWQUwwod0EsL6w

Do you know any retired colonels who mght have one on their walls?

[jourdain2]

It's not a Cameron story, honestly - youtube it. It is sung in (I think) an Oxford college for the Christmas Gaudy - good fun and the basses love it.

[jourdain2]

Thanks, jno, but £6.00 is ok - £63 is a no-no!

[Hopkirk]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006IFTZN4?keywords=boar%27s%20head&qid=1449436115&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

[jourdain2]

No, I don't know any retired colonels :(

[Togo]

Friendly butcher req. jourdain?

[tonyav]

Blimey jourdain, they ain't cheap.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xfake+boars+head.TRS0&;_nkw=fake+boars+head&_sacat=0

[jourdain2]

They ain't cheap are they? Some of the singers are prepared to share the cost of buying and roasting one with us as long as we get the meat off it to share; but, as I said; the others are going green - beats me why, they eat other bits of pig don't they. No, it has to be artificial in some way, sorry.

[tonyav]

Or hire one maybe.
http://www.eventprophire.com/themes/medieval/boar-head-prop

[DaisyNonna]

My mother made one each Christmas

[jourdain2]

Nice try, tonyav, but as I said, it has to be artificial. I honestly can't understand people who eat meat but run from the reality . I'm used to wandering around supermarkets and seeing heads glaring up at me from the cool counters - with their trotters a few bays along. I think I'm heading for a pig-mask and balloon.... :(

[tonyav]

Or maybe make your own.
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081020161342AAm5yfM

[jourdain2]

Daisynonna - you don't have her method do you?

[jourdain2]

tonyav - the made of bread one sounds like a goer - ta.

[DaisyNonna]

Sorry, remember pig's head, gravy browning and marbles!