The Nenets’ favourite meal is reindeer meat and blood, eaten and drunk raw directly from the carcass of a freshly killed reindeer. Ropes are tied around the live reindeer’s neck, its head is turned to face the East and it is strangled by two or three people, each pulling one end of the rope. The hide is then removed and is hung to dry. Clothing will be made from it. Then the women cut open the reindeer, everyone sits around it on the ground and they begin tearing out liver, kidney, meat, throat, lungs, heart and eating them right there. A bowl or cup is passed around and people dip it in the carcass and drink the reindeer’s warm blood.