Today is National Apple Pie Day.
I don't know why it just feels good to write that, but it does. There's something very American about apples and something very comforting about pie. Put 'em together and . . . bam!
That reminds me that it is almost universally accepted by the most reliable of theological sources - namely, cartoons - that Eve ate an apple way back somewhere between 4,000 and 4 billion years ago and got this whole mess going. The Bible book of Genesis records that she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We all know that was an apple, don't we?
One reason we think that is because the Latin word for 'evil' is malum and the Latin word for 'apple' is also malum. However, there are those who think the fruit she ate was more likely a fig. I don't know. Figs are so unglamorous. No doctors are staying away if you eat a fig every day.
One writer says the word 'apple' is appropriate because etymologically speaking, the English word 'apple' is a generic term including all fruits, berries and nuts. The Old English word for cucumbers is literally 'earth-apples.' So, according to him, the forbidden fruit could have been an apple, a fig, a banana, or even a cucumber.
A cucumber? Really? Do those even grow on trees?
All I have to say is there has never been a National Cucumber Pie Day.
And be blessed.
I don't know why it just feels good to write that, but it does. There's something very American about apples and something very comforting about pie. Put 'em together and . . . bam!
That reminds me that it is almost universally accepted by the most reliable of theological sources - namely, cartoons - that Eve ate an apple way back somewhere between 4,000 and 4 billion years ago and got this whole mess going. The Bible book of Genesis records that she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We all know that was an apple, don't we?
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One writer says the word 'apple' is appropriate because etymologically speaking, the English word 'apple' is a generic term including all fruits, berries and nuts. The Old English word for cucumbers is literally 'earth-apples.' So, according to him, the forbidden fruit could have been an apple, a fig, a banana, or even a cucumber.
A cucumber? Really? Do those even grow on trees?
All I have to say is there has never been a National Cucumber Pie Day.
And be blessed.
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