Supermarket Battle part 4

When I first had the idea to link an employee argument in produce to the Battle of Hastings, I borrowed a book from one of my school libraries and made some photo copies for future reference.  Those copies disappeared for a while, but I found them earlier this year when I started thinking about the next print.  Last year at times I started doing little sketches of the produce department, to be used in creating the setting, but set those aside when I started working there.  But that ended a while ago, and it's time for a new print.  Months ago I mentioned the concept to my critique group and someone suggested the idea that I could replace the comet (second panel down on the right side) with a vegetable, maybe something in the onion family where the stem had been allowed to grow long, which planted the idea in my head to consider other visual links between the Bayeux Tapestry and the produce section.  Since I am getting serious about finishing this piece, I took out the copies and looked for other ideas.

I found a few other possibilities.  In the bottom photocopied page above are a few images of boats being made, I assume by the Norman invaders.  We don't have an invasion fleet at the supermarket, but all supermarkets have plenty of u-boats, which seems to be the common name for those long, narrow 6 wheeled carts with the tall handles at either end, used to move materials all throughout the store.  In my deli days, I was sometimes assigned to work "the load", where one of these carts was packed with cases of stuff destined for our department, now parked inside the walk-in fridge, and it had to be unpacked, dated, and rotated within our storage system.  In some cases is was felt that I'd be the best person to do this, as most of the deli employees were retired senior citizens and said they couldn't handle the cold conditions.  So in reworking this store scene, I added a store employee straddling the u-boat, cutting open a box, not unlike the Normans using axes to hollow out their boats.  Never saw severed heads in the supermarket, but perhaps a loose pineapple, fallen from a display will work.  As for the comet, in the store the other day I saw bundles of organic gold beets, complete with stems and leaves, looking very much like the comet.  Why it would be flying through the air I have yet to figure out.