A Muslim Law Professor explains that tomatos and cucumbers cannot be placed near each other in produce stands in Baghdad, for fear of whipping! A vendor explains:
“Look at this,” the vegetable seller said to me, holding up a tomato. “What does it look like?”
“A tomato,” I said.
“Okay,” he relents, “what else might it resemble? Notice it is red, like a woman’s lipstick. It is soft and round. Get it? It reminds you of a woman’s flesh.”
Then he picked up the cucumber and was about to ask me what I thought it looked like, when I cut him off. That one I could follow better. If a tomato was a woman, I could well assume what a cucumber was.
“So the idea is that it reminds people of sex, it’s the mixing of the man and the woman, the cucumber and the tomato, and unlawful sex at that, and so they forbade it.”
Bob Dreher at Crunchy Con had a little fun with this, and argues that by this logic, Bob and Larry are infadel transvestites, filling your kid’s head with sexual imagery.
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