Forbidden fruits/intoxicants/things across cultures/religions. Every culture’s got that one snack you’re not supposed to touch…

Each figure is eyeing or reacting to their own "forbidden" item on the table:

• Adam (with Eve behind whispering): 🍎 “But what if it's wine though?”

• Vedic Priest: 🍶 “Soma is for the initiated only, bro.”

• Shiva (clutching his throat): ☠️ “Just a little poison, she said.”

• Asura (reaching out): ✋ “Wait… I can’t sip Amrita?”

• Sita (wide-eyed): 🦌 “But look at that glittery deer tho…”

• Jain Monk (grimacing): 🧄 “Who put garlic on the table?”

• Muslim Man: 🐖 “Is that… pork? Astaghfirullah.”

• Jewish Rabbi: 🧀🍖 “Meat and dairy? Together? Oy vey.”

• Hindu Sage: 🥩 “Tamasic food clouds the mind.”

Forbidden fruits/intoxicants/things across cultures/religions

• Apple fruit is forbidden in the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve. It could be a life-altering fruit due to its fermentation. The Tree of Life could be a grape vine rather than the Tree of Knowledge. Some sages say that the tree was a vine. Eve pressed the grapes and gave Adam red wine to drink, as red as blood.
• Drink from the Soma tree (Soma – Aryans, Homa – Persians) is restricted to priests in the Rig Veda. It is considered intoxication and immortality.
• The poison Halahala was restricted in the throat of Shiva by Parvati while Shiva was trying to swallow it to save others.
• Amrita is prohibited to the Asuras in Hinduism.
• Rama's wife Sita desired the golden deer, which turned out to be a forbidden desire, similar to Eve asking Adam to eat the fruit.
• Priests avoided meat, garlic, or onions due to their tamasic (impure) qualities, believed to cloud spiritual clarity. The Manusmriti (e.g., 5.48–56), Chandogya Upanishad (7.26.2): "When food is pure, the mind becomes pure."
• There are forbidden foods in Islam (Haram), Judaism (Treif), Hindu vegetarianism, and Jainism.