[Totally OT] Fruit Theology

'Tis the start of Mango season here in the antipodes, and yesterday I had
the pleasure and delight on consuming my first one for the season, and a
mighty fine specimen it was too.

Whilst enjoying its heady delights, I mentioned in passing that the Mango
was proof of an Intelligent Creator. My beloved, somewhat used to my strange
mental meanderings asked "How so?". To which I replied "I can't believe that
something this wonderful and perfect", indicating the half consumed mango,
with its juice dripping onto my chest, "could come about simply by random
mutation".

My beloved pondered upon this for the length it took me to finish the fruit
ambrosia, and then replied "But if that is true, then your Creator God is a
horrid *******."

My raised eyebrow and quizzical look suggested he should continue.

"Because if he created the Mango, the world's most perfect fruit, then he
also created the brussel sprout, which is known far and wide to all children
as being worse than snot balls. Since many many children, including you and
I, have been forced to eat these monstrositities under the guise of 'for
your own good' and 'if you dont' eat your veggies you won't get dessert',
one can only conclude that any god that created such vile things must
therefore be cruel and evil. QED"

Does the presence of heavenly mangoes in this universe balance out the
heiniousness of the brussel sprout? Perhaps the brussel sprout is the
anti-god vegetable? My partner's interesting rebuttel has not made me
abandon my belief that mangoes are the ultimate in natural food, the nectar
of heaven, fruit of the gods, nor that brussel srpouts are simply vile and
disgusting. However, I do note that whilst my parents still indulge in
mangoes when they can, since my sister and I moved out they no longer eat
brussel sprouts. Perhaps they no longer need the spectre of the devilish
brussel sprout to scare us kids into behaving.

This theory, plus US$100 will get you a doctorate of theology from a world
renown university with a post office box address.

Yowie