Sarcastic food anyone?

The other day I read that there is archaeological evidence that Homo erectus had barbecues at their campsites already 420.000 years ago. I do wonder when exactly it was that one of them went:

–Ugh, you half naked man why don’t you put this delicious green plant that I found into your roast chicken...

I guess that quite a bit of time passed before that occurred...

Today there are all sorts of labels on food ”Fast food”, “Slow food”, “Homemade food” and “Ecologic food” etc… “Tell me what you eat and I can tell you how you are”.


In this article they wrote that food reflects on people’s values. The question is, where do we get our values? From the commercials on TV convincing us that a meatball family recipe hasn’t changed for 80 years, or from the scientists that tells us every week about something new that will give us cancer, or do we get them from various religious texts?

“There are hot dog fillings which have more in common with meat than mere pinkness, whose lucky consumers don’t apply mustard because that would spoil the taste. Its just that people can be trained to prefer the other sort, and seek it out.” Terry Pratchett ‘The last continent” (p295)

So sarcastic food anyone?