The Forbidden Fruit

[MrScorpio]

The Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.


It probably wasn't an apple.

What do you think it was?

[Scruffbunny]

1. Pomagranite.

Or however you spell it. That way Persephone had the same fruit.

[Redstone]

4. You're right.

It's the most highly-prized fruit, and the Fruit of Love, all through the Middle East, and has been for ages.

You're our winner!

Redstone

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Sometimes called the "Japanese" or "Chinese" Apple

[Scruffbunny]

11. Huh. I didn't know that.

You learn something new every day.

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Maybe it is just a New York City thing...

http://www.barrypopik.com/article/520/chinese-apple-for-pomegranate

Chinese Apple (for "pomegranate")

Do New Yorkers call it a “Chinese apple” while everyone else calls it a “pomegranate”?

From the Dictionary of American Regional English:
...
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Chinese apple n

A pomegranate (Punica granatum).
1980 DARE File NYC (as of 1948), Chinese apple = pomegranate.
...
...
I didn’t find evidence for this on Google, or the historical New York Times full text database, or the Newspaper Archive database of regional American newspapers.

The pomegranate juice drink is called POM in New York City as is it elsewhere.

Perhaps “Chinese apple” is historical; perhaps people once associated it with Chinatown; perhaps a few grocers had once chose this name to label the item. From my experience, it’s a “pomegranate” here.

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[knowbody0]

2. sex

[Scruffbunny]

8. Actually, probably.

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Coconuts.

That shit is hard to open!

[da_chimperor]

5. A very firm banana. n/t

[Left Is Write]

6. Are you suggesting...

the Bible isn't....>gasp<...literal? Are you intimating that it might be full of...of...of symbolism and allegory? Blasphemer!

[aeolian]

19. but, but, but, but Jesus!

Jesus!

:sarcasm:

[RevCheesehead]

20. A common misconception.

The fruit is unnamed. And, nowhere is the serpent called anything but a serpent. No devil, no Satan, no apple...

Something to stash away when you want to confound Fristians. :evilgrin:

[elshiva]

23. Actually, during the Middle Ages there were Mystery Plays

with Adam and Eve. The apple was the most abundant fruit in Europe so they got stuck with an apple, but no apple mentioned in the Bible.

Actually, some Muslim traditions say a banana!

[bigwillq]

7. I was going to say

a stick and berries.:evilgrin:

[aeolian]

9. That's a rather muscular Eve...

Paradise had a gym, apparently.

[Scruffbunny]

12. I was just about to say that.

Either that, or it's actually Steve.

[evlbstrd]

22. Michaelangelo drew and painted from male models.

Look at his sculpture, the women look like men with breasts. At least the nudes. The Pieta is a marvel.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Agriculture.

It's obviously metaphor; the birth of agriculture came as the result of knowledge that probably seemed near-godlike (control of the environment, etc) and ended humanity's time in "Eden", when they merely ate of the fruits of the trees (the pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer lifestyle). Of course, that's just my opinion.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. Concur

The 'garden of Eden' story tells the 'why' of things... why do snakes crawl, why does mommy bleed, why does childbirth hurt, why do we have to work hard all day... a look back at the (non-existant) 'good old days' when you didn't have to work hard on the farm all day, but rather just helped yourself to the food just lying around.

[TimeChaser]

14. I thought it was a fig

[MrScorpio]

15. I was thinking Ken Mehlman

But what the fuck do I know?

[Strawman]

27. LOL

[Terran]

28. LOL, you are evil

and must be destroyed!

I love the gif, by the way. Did you see Mehlman on CNN this morning? What a f*cking twit that man is. Blathering the script given him by Karl Rove. Pathetic.

[Jamastiene]

16. Adam's

balls. Can I say that on DU?

Well, she did pluck them and talk him into doing so too, so I figure maybe she was playing with them or something.

[6000eliot]

18. It appears to be dangling right above Eve's ear

as far as I can tell.

[marzipanni]

21. I don't know, but it would be hard to resist a cherimoya

Yummmmmm....
http://www.calimoya.com/about/images-about_us/fruit-hand-lrg.html

[ksilvas]

25. It was a fig.

I think Joesph Campbell talked about this in his "Power of Myth"
series. The fig and the fig tree in acient times represented wisdom.
When Siddhartha sat under the Bodi Tree and became the buddah
the bodi tree was thought to be a fig tree.

[Shell Beau]

26. I think it was a "cherry" hint hint wink wink