You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The danger that elongated fruits and vegetables reportedly pose to members of the fairer sex.
Remember Otter in Animal House meeting Dean Wormer’s wife in the Food King.
“Mine’s bigger,” he says to her holding a cucumber.
She smiles at him salaciously.
“My Cucumber is bigger than yours,” he says with a Cheshire cat grin.
Cucumbers and Pickles.
It’s a punch line in America. In The Muslim world it’s a punch in the gut.
According to published reports; an Islamic cleric living in Europe reportedly has warned Muslim women not to get too close to bananas, cucumbers or other produce that could promote “sexual thoughts.”
Sexual Thoughts?
What’s the spiritual message here? Stay away from cucumbers?
Hey Gladys. Stay out of aisle 3. There’s carrots over there!
According to the Cleric, if a woman must eat these food products, a man should prepare the meal. The Cleric says the items should be cut into smaller, less arousing pieces.
You can’t make this crap up.
Sounds like a game plan straight from the Lorena Bobbitt cook book of marital discourse.
Clean up in aisle 5! Woman with cucumbers!
News of the cleric statement quickly spread online, leaving many liberal Muslims embarrassed and angry, evoking a flurry of mockery in online forums.
I wouldn’t take it too seriously ladies. This is probably the same religious leader who prompted the saying “where clerics are clerics and sheep are nervous.”
I don’t even know what the hell that means, but it makes me laugh.
And that is crazy.™