

Christians can reason themselves into all sorts of bizarre shit based on a text from the Bible.
But the bible is not really consistent, not even the New Testament, so it is equally shared blame on the bible and the Christian for this.
The point is that you should probably not base your way of life and thinking on a 2000 year old nonsensical book about a magical wizard doing fictitious stuff.
Count yourself lucky you didn’t visit around 10 years ago. There was a fad, following the rising popularity of “artisan” liquorice, to add liquorice to all sorts of weird stuff, like liquorice bacon, liquorice cheese and so on.
I am a Dane, so naturally I love liquorice, but that shit was heinous, and luckily it didn’t catch on except for the liquorice chocolate and liquorice ice cream, which has both since become a staple here as well.