Every time the human race has cared about a food enough to paint it, steal it or go to war over it, the food was an animal. Nobody ever painted a salad on a cave wall. Lascaux has around 900 animals and no side dishes. Nobody ever rode out at midnight to steal a neighbour's lentils. Ireland's national epic is a war over one bull. Nobody ever paid a bride price in celery. Nobody ever branded a carrot. The word itself means the mark you burn into a hide. Nobody ever dug a ditch round a park to keep the peasants off the kale. Nobody ever hanged a man for taking the king's cabbage. Nobody ever read the future in the entrails of a leek. Nobody ever killed the fatted turnip for a son come home. Nobody ever named a star sign after a bean. There is a bull, a ram and a goat up there, and they got in first. Nobody ever followed a migrating herd of spinach across a land bridge into America. For 2.6 million years the species was in no doubt about which part of dinner was the dinner.Every time the human race has cared about a food enough to paint it, steal it or go to war over it, the food was an animal. Nobody ever painted a salad on a cave wall. Lascaux has around 900 animals and no side dishes. Nobody ever rode out at midnight to steal a neighbour's lentils. Ireland's national epic is a war over one bull. Nobody ever paid a bride price in celery. Nobody ever branded a carrot. The word itself means the mark you burn into a hide. Nobody ever dug a ditch round a park to keep the peasants off the kale. Nobody ever hanged a man for taking the king's cabbage. Nobody ever read the future in the entrails of a leek. Nobody ever killed the fatted turnip for a son come home. Nobody ever named a star sign after a bean. There is a bull, a ram and a goat up there, and they got in first. Nobody ever followed a migrating herd of spinach across a land bridge into America. For 2.6 million years the species was in no doubt about which part of dinner was the dinner. It took a committee and a pyramid diagram to make it a matter of opinion.
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) October 11, 2026
It took a committee and a pyramid diagram to make it a matter of opinion.
