Not necessarily
fruit, but always
forbidden. The origin of this phrase stems from the book of
Genesis in the
Old Testament. To
summarise: God created Adam. God then created Eve from Adam's rib. Once this was accomplished, God allowed them to roam free in the
Garden of Eden, where they lived blissfully. They were in a state of
innocence, and so were virtually immune to
sin, as they had no way of knowing what it was. The only
rule in the
Garden was that they should never pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Allegedly,
Eve coerced
Adam into doing just this, with the result being a
fall from grace. Aware, now fully
cognizant human beings, Adam and Eve recognised their
indecency and so committed the first sin in
history. As a result of this, by Christian theology, we are all
stained with the
Original Sin.
In modern terms, the phrase "Forbidden Fruit" essentially sums up a simple truth: people will always desire that which is expressly forbidden to them. Kids think that
smoking is cool, married men check out other womens asses. I, for one, found myself completely
incapable of not trying
marijuana, on the simple basis that if all of these
PSAs were harping on about it, it had to be some
killer shit. I was, I must admit,
disappointed by the whole affair.