Forbidden Fruit
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Actually the bible originally never mentions apples
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Maybe not originally, but when I was _COMPELLED_ by some force to do a (very) little bit of research on the subject, I found an interesting conjecture, that the Apple was chosen by the Western Church because the Latin word for "Apple" sounded much like the Latin word for "evil". So the folks who made that editorial decision may just have been punsters.
OTOH, I found that bit of knowledge on a Orthodox (Eastern) site:
https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/
So their attitude toward "The West" may influence their writing.
YMMV: Minsk is in Belarus.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
