“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
– Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Humans are a funny lot. There always seems to be someone who would say “I wonder what this does?” or “I wonder what that tastes like?” There seem to have been quite a number of people who will eat all kinds of weird things, from William Buckland, who ate the heart of Louis XVI, to the two men who, during the Great Fire of London, took the opportunity to taste the liquid in the coffin of a former Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, to the people who paid a modern artist to cook and serve his own genitalia to them. Human curiosity apparently knows no bounds!
Today, though, I want to talk about something a little less disgusting than cannibalism – I want to talk about bog butter.
Inkyn de Worde 