We've all heard about how intrigued President Obama was on the Letterman show when somebody produced a heart-shaped potato.
As a lot of people have said, heart-shaped potatoes aren't really very rare. But how about this ...
We decided to marinate and roast a lump of tri-tip. Yes, damn the arteries. So we went to the store, bought a slab of meat, and when we got it home it looked like this:
Heart-shaped. Oh the ironies. Though of course it didn't much resemble an actual beef heart, much less a human one.
Then being a smart arse I couldn't help thinking of the theory of signatures, expounded in Medieval and Renaissance herbals, that a benevolent God helped us identify the medical usefulness of plants by making them resemble the body part they were good for; so that lungwort was good for the lungs, walnuts were good for the brain, etc.
However once our meat was cooked it didn't look like a heart at all. It just looked like a piece of beef. Which is OK by me.
There's also been a lot of talk lately about the Buddah pear.
Now I think this is a cheat. The pear doesn't just happen to look that way. It looks that way because it's encased in a plastic mold as it's growing. If you're going start doing things like that, just about any food can be made to look like anything, or anyone.
Meawhile, in southern Croatia a farmer, name of Neda Glibota, had a chicken that laid an egg that looked like this:
"I couldn't believe it had come out of one of my hens," said Neda. "I thought it was some sort of odd-shaped potato."
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