Seconded!
{I do adore the clock on the shelf, smiling}
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Edward Gorey? Then that cake is going to kill those kids.
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Nah - the clock would never be smiling were the cake poisoned.
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I was thinking along the lines of the last cherry on top causing a massive structural failure leading to a cake avalanche, but point taken.
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I have it on good authority from colleagues involved in organic residue analysis that medieval Muslims also weren’t averse to the odd cheeky piece of pork. They have received mixed reactions to their talks on this, as can be imagined
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Great article!
A book I read said the Ancient Egyptians were “ambivalent” re: pigs and pork. Priests were forbidden it, except, IIRC, during a major festival (can’t remember which, if the author mentioned it) during which everyone had pork.
The common people could rarely afford any meat - fishes were their main animal protein source - and would eat pork any chance they got. Wealthy folks, as always, readily procured whatever they liked, inc pork.
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Before stonehenge there was woodhenge, and before that strawhenge. But the big bad wolf blew down strawhenge and woodhenge, leaving stonehenge in England. The big bad wolf couldn’t cross the English channel because the boatsman couldn’t figure out the sheep-wolf-cabbages problem. This also explains why there is so much mutton and cabbage in anglican cuisine.
QED
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