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What looks like a newly born lamb AND grows out of the ground like a plant?

A Vegetable Lamb! Duh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The story of the Vegetable Lamb dates back to the 11th century, but it wasn’t untill the 16th and17th centuries that it became a subject of much interest to all kinds of VIPZ.

In his work entitled “Notes on Russia”, Baron Sigismund Freiherr von Herberstein (historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council) had this to say about Vegetable Lamb:

It had a head, eyes, ears, and all other parts a newly born lamb.

OH RLY? TELL US MORE.

In Claude Duret’s book “Histoire Admirable des Plantes” (1605), he devoted an entire chapter to the Vegetable Lamb. It was said that, when planted, “it grew to a height of two and a half feet and was rooted by the navel in the middle of the belly”. The lamb were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all the plants were gone, both the plant and sheep died

 

 

 

 

Both of these menz were well-known and well-respected back in the day so these stories are NOT to be taken lightly.

OMG even Erasmus Darwinwrote about the Vegetable Lamb!

E'en round the Pole the flames of love aspire,And icy bosoms feel the secret fire,Cradled in snow, and fanned by Arctic air,Shines, gentle borametz, thy golden hair;Rooted in earth, each cloven foot descends,And round and round her flexile neck she bends,Crops the grey coral moss, and hoary thyme,Or laps with rosy tongue the melting rime;Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam,And seems to bleat - a vegetable lamb.

While I am aware that this is an excerpt from Darwin’s poem, The Botanic Garden, and not a report or a sighting of the Vegetable Lamb, I really don’t care. I have already decided to plant Vegetable Lambs all over my garden so that I may feast all summer long on their succulent deliciousness.

Below you will find actual video footage of my soon-to-be-all-in-one dinner in action! Some jerk told me this was animated, and not “real footage”. I told that guy to shut the fuck up. And guess what jerk face? You are so not invited to my Vegetable Lamb buffet party this summer.

7 Comments

  • Agent Lover
    May 5, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    Lambykins!! So apparently the Museum of Garden History has one under glass?? Mlord besides THAT I want to go to this museum. Is that nerdy? You know in my alternate life I’m a florist in France.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Garden_History

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  • Cloven Hoof
    May 6, 2009 at 1:30 am

    OH HALE NO. we are so there shawty.

    im glad you’re a frech florist boo, because i left my green thumb at the cypress hill smoke out in ’98.

    all plant life drops the fuck dead if even i so much as glance over at it 🙁 i need you to make these for my back yard asap:

    http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/NPF6077.jpg

    http://image24.webshots.com/25/1/42/8/38114208ePjnMv_ph.jpg

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  • Cloven Hoof
    May 6, 2009 at 1:32 am

    hold the phone, that shits in LONDON?!

    ugh FINE if we gotta take it overseas we will.

    you know they ain’t ready for us, but then again who really is?

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  • Cloven Hoof
    May 6, 2009 at 1:34 am

    ok last comment on my own post I SWEAR.

    just a side bar, the music in that mini-movie is mad STAX FRIENDLY huh boo?

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  • kiana sassypants
    May 7, 2009 at 1:33 am

    so are vegetable lambs vegan? just askin’.

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  • Cloven Hoof
    May 8, 2009 at 8:04 am

    YES

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  • Gummerfan
    May 17, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    Weird! Never heard of this one! I thought amorphophallus titanum was freaky!
    http://gummerfansmonsterhunterhq.blogspot.com/2008/05/crypto-botany.html

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