This cartoon idea just popped into my head when I read a headline on Reddit that said, “Are we giving our children too many tablets?”
Of course they meant ipads and such, but I twisted it around in my mind and I saw this.
I didn’t know which type of tablet would be funny that children take – Tylenol? Flintstone vitamins? I let the cartoon sit for a day or so, which I do with many of them – making drawing changes and many times I make text changes.
Then I heard Jean Smart being interviewed on tv about her show “Hacks,” and she mentioned taking Ativan, as a joke about something.
I didn’t know what Ativan was, but it sounded funny, so I looked it up and I thought, “This will work.”
This cartoon is something I think about. Farro.
Every time people mention Farro, they call it the “ancient grain,” from the time of the pyramids. But so what? Does that make it special?
When you think about it, people did not live long lives back then, it’s not like farro was the magic ingredient that kept people alive and healthy. But maybe it did at a time when lifetimes were not very long – maybe it extended life to the ripe old age of 30.
I heard about farro years ago, Martha Stewart was using it on one of her shows and she of course said it was “an ancient grain.” And now it seems to be popping up all over.
I always picture it as being grown along the Nile River, during the time when the river flooded and enhanced the land and the grains being grown there.
The first time I had it was in a salad at Panera Bread. It’s sort of a mixture between quinoa and barley. I had barley in a soup yesterday.
Till next time . . .
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