It's totally 'the bowl of fruit thing'. For me, I like a bowl of bon-bons while I read the paper with a nicer furniture set-up than this dude. This semi-neanderthal likes a bowl of raw meat. Get it now? Gary Larson often uses neanderthals in his strips. I killed myself laughing when I saw this, although I was on a Far Side-a-thon so maybe I was in that frame of mind already.