The Road Not Taken
March 17th, 2016 Posted by Rabbi Daniel Lapin Thought Tools No Comment yetIf you like to talk to tomatoes; if a squash can make you smile
If you like to waltz with potatoes, up and down the produce aisle
Broccoli, celery, got to be VeggieTales! ? ? ?
If you can’t put the music to that jingle, then you probably also do not know Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. No, these are not nicknames of notorious Vegas mobsters. They are actually two of the cast of popular characters that includes Petunia Rhubarb, created by the fertile minds of Phil Vischer and his team during the 1990s when they started the VeggieTales production company. If you know none of this, clearly you were not raising Biblically-committed Christian kids back then. By the way, the Lapin family, along with many of their Orthodox Jewish friends were as enthusiastic fans as were their Christian playmates. (more…)