Is the Garden of Eden in Oklahoma Joe’s?
Was pork the forbidden fruit? Economist Brad DeLong posits that the paradise occupied by Adam and Eve might just be in a gas station:
At least one non-Mormon says that it is very nearby—just across the Missouri River in fact: Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ In Kansas City [KS].
DeLong asserts that the Book of Genesis places the Garden of Eden somewhere in the Middle East, pretty far from Missouri. His fast and loose understanding of the Missouri/Kansas divide aside (his post is titled ‘Is the Garden of Eden Really in Missouri?’), it makes you wonder … is Oklahoma Joe’s the Garden of Eden?
