Celebrated Noma chef Rene Redzepi, whose fanciful and creative menus often include ants, recently tweeted a curious photo.
On a plate containing margarine, reduced fat butter and whole butter, ants flocked to the latter. The caption reads, "I relate to ants."
It's a photo that reflects how Redzepi eats and cooks, with natural, whole foods as opposed to artificial additives.
I relate to ants pic.twitter.com/JJEVBePElg— Rene Redzepi (@ReneRedzepiNoma) October 6, 2015
Margarine first became popular during the butter rations of World War II. Americans were told the spread was the "healthier" choice.
"In the 1950s and '60s, we mistakenly told Americans that butter and eggs were bad for them and pushed people to margarine, which is basically trans fat," Dr. Steven Nissen, the chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic told CNN earlier this year. "What we've learned now is that saturated fat is relatively neutral — it is the trans fat that is really harmful."
In the 1990s, a Harvard study found that the trans fats in margarine were much worse than the saturated fats in butter, in regard to heart disease.
What it took humans decades to learn it seems ants know naturally.
Many people have come together to support Redzepi's opinion, including celebrity chef and host of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Zimmern.
Bravo. The natural world tells us all we need to know RT @ReneRedzepiNoma: I relate to ants pic.twitter.com/xDKDApJfMD— Andrew Zimmern (@andrewzimmern) October 6, 2015
Bravo! Eat real food. #healthyeating #healthyliving RT @ReneRedzepiNoma: I relate to ants pic.twitter.com/pszaMT7kvw— Viviana Mahbub (@Viv_Mahbub) October 7, 2015
Full fat butter FTW! RT @ReneRedzepiNoma: I relate to ants pic.twitter.com/BCDQYGMrwO— Arjun Kiswani (@arjwiz) October 6, 2015
The social media revelation comes in the midst of a huge transition for Noma, which will close its doors after New Year's Eve 2016.
The restaurant will be revamped in a new Sydney, Australia location and include a state-of-the-art urban farm, where Redzepi will harvest a majority of his ingredients.
The chef was unavailable for comment.