# Did Adam eat an apple or a pomegranate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158 "2018-08-06T05:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/41 "2018-08-08T15:18:43Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Since the Adam & Eve story is as fictional as can be, this is like arguing what unicorns have for breakfast or dragons have for dinner. > > Obviously, the answer to the latter is _maidens._ No I don’t eat dragon, cause, uh, it’s not a meal for peasants, it’s a meal for kings, and I’m sort of a common man. But they don’t eat us, it’s a common misconception. They actually eat gold and treasure – that’s why they’re always sitting on a pile of it. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > So… bananas are off the table? Kirk Cameron aside, edible bananas are a man-made creation, so A&E would be eating nasty woody little berries. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/42 "2018-08-08T16:56:05Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Some Jehovah’s Witness art seems to favour the “not any existing fruit” interpretation. Practically, this seems to mean some sort of[bumpy](https://assetsnffrgf-a.akamaihd.net/assets/m/1102011083/univ/art/1102011083_univ_cnt_1_xl.jpg) [pear](https://assetsnffrgf-a.akamaihd.net/assets/m/2013723/univ/art/2013723_univ_lsr_xl.jpg). That first one looks like an etrog, drawn by someone who has never seen one up close. You would not bit directly into one. They have a really thick rind. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/43 "2018-08-08T17:08:16Z")
> [@SailorHG](#): > > In my growing-up religious years, I often thought that if the fruit still existed in our world, then it would have to be something poisonous to us today. I mean, if it was toxic enough to knock two (then) unmortal beings down to where they were able to die, it would surely be something that would kill the rest of us if we ate it now. Never looked into anything that could fit that description, though. > [@Biffster](#): > > The point was not that the fruit was poisonous; it was that it was forbidden. The story was about disobedience, not food poisoning. Also, they were booted from Eden because they _weren’t_ immortal, but there was a tree with the fruit of immortality in the garden that God didn’t want them to get their hands on. > [@](#): > > 22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: > > 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/44 "2018-08-08T17:25:18Z")
Stupid serpent should of given us the tree of life’s fruit first, since it wasn’t forbidden. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/45 "2018-08-08T17:34:54Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Stupid serpent should of given us the tree of life’s fruit first, since it wasn’t forbidden. Viking motto: Remember! First pillage, then burn. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/46 "2018-08-08T17:58:03Z")
You know, when G-d told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge, Eve hadn’t been created yet, so it’s possible that Adam botched it when he told her the commandment, and she didn’t quite get how serious the transgression was. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158/47 "2018-08-08T18:03:39Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You know, when G-d told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge, Eve hadn’t been created yet, so it’s possible that Adam botched it when he told her the commandment, and she didn’t quite get how serious the transgression was. Maybe she got the trees mixed up: you know, one for eternal life, one for knowledge of good and evil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-adam-eat-an-apple-or-a-pomegranate/819158.md?page=2)