 The Yucatán State in Mexico features a deer bounding over a sisal plant on its .Journalist John Gunther wrote of Sisal in 1953 that "if it had not been for the fact that sisal is a difficult crop, there might not have been a Munich in 1939.Neville Chamberlain started out life as a sisal planter in the Bahamas, and only returned to Britain and entered politics when he found that this obdurate vegetable was too hard to grow."