Foodie postage stamps, or the lack thereof

Take one large glass jar full of Dutch postage stamps, ranging from the contemporary (the latest royal princesses) to the very, very old (the queen before the queen before the king). What with the average stamp topic reflecting popular culture, you'd say there would be some food related stamps there, right?

Wrong.

There are, of course, countless ones with queens or future queens on them. Then there are famous painters, scientists (why? It's not like anyone gives a toss) and, for some reason, starving children. Big leap forward, and there are stamps adorned with cute illustrations. Now I am all for cute illustrations, but somehow there seems to be a wide gap. One the one hand, highbrow charity and long dead writers, on the other, cute colourful birds and Bambi like deer.

This says all you need to know about Dutch food culture, I think. In the eyes of the masses, no such thing exists.

There was one stamp I did find with food on it: a head of lettuce, a tomato, and what seems like airport tarmac. Slightly random, but nevertheless: double whoop!