Sunday night, a woman who lives in suburban Philadelphia was slicing eggplant for dinner when she discovered something a little unusual in a disc of the nightshade vegetable resting on her cutting board. The seeds inside the eggplant were arranged in a way that seemed to spell out the word "God." She found the the seemingly divine message in the eggplant comforting and put the slice aside. The rest she fried up, which she and her husband ate for dinner. My parents once thought that some yam drippings on their stove resembled the word God, but before a picture could be had, it was cleaned up. Messes never last long in my parents' house, even those that might possibly be a message from the universe.
Have any of you ever had the experience of your food spelling words, religious or otherwise?
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8-14-2007 @ 11:34AM
jsmylie said...
Nope, but last night the swirls in a piece of Dominos looked like a (very happy!) human face.
It was kind of unnerving, especially when I bit it in half.
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8-14-2007 @ 12:29PM
Barry said...
Gid is alive! (sorry I read the seed circle above the "o" as a dot for an "i") Seriously, are these people's lives so bereft of meaning that they have to read into seed patterns of eggplant to find comfort?
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8-14-2007 @ 1:38PM
Tom said...
Only while eating a bowl of Alpha-Bits, and they were words of my own choosing. Usually rude words.
What can I say? I'm a sucker for obscene cereal.
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8-15-2007 @ 8:19AM
AlyxL said...
Aubergines (eggplants) with the name of God in Arabic crop up every couple of years or so in the British papers, usually in August, when not much else is happening. This is the first one I've seen in English writing - maybe the squiggly nature of Arabic makes it easier to see messages. Mind you, I can't help thinking that if God wanted to get into contact with us there are better methods He could use.
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8-15-2007 @ 7:52PM
Rick said...
Turn the photo upside down and it says 'DOG'.
So go figure!
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8-19-2007 @ 12:51AM
pauloh said...
"Oh my god, Brian! There's a message in my alphabits! It says oOoOoOo."
"Peter those are cheerios..."
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