Thats just a metaphor that getting away with something makes it really sweet. That is if you dont have any remorse for whoever you took advantage of. The temptation to Adam and Eve was strong and the apple supposedly tasted great, but if you believe the Bible, mankind has paid for it ever since.

Picking an apple right from a tree and eating it is the best flavor. However, stealing would leave a bitter taste in my mouth so I'd have to go with buying it from his stand. The Adam and Eve Tree of Knowledge is about the discovery of duality - good and evil. This brought separation from God. This may seem bad but there is a huge difference between choosing God versus just being a part of everything and not choosing. Choice being supremly powerful. If God didn't want it there it didn't have to be there. The loss of innocence is a hard thing, but maturity and choice trump it any day of the week as far as I'm concerned. Carl Jung indirectly speaks to this with his notion of individuation.

Right on! Yes! ;-)

Nowhere in the bible does it say that adam and eve stole an apple.

A stolen apple feeds our appetite to steal.

The saying is talking about the pleasure (or thrill) of risk, daring, and the ego-rush of success AND getting one over on somebody else (who is presumably more powerful and established than you are). As for Genesis 3... The saying has nothing to do with the story in Genesis 3. The allegory there is this: "the garden" = the Promised Land; "Adam & Eve" = the children of Israel; "Adam" by and of himself = the anointed leaders and covenant bearers of Israel in each generation -- the High Priest, the Prophet, and (in the future) the king. "the tree of life" = God's Law in the Ark in the Tabernacle in the center of the camp of Israel ... and by extension the whole Tabernacle system and the Presence of God Himself, enthroned above the Ark of the Covenant; and "eating of the fruit of the tree of the DECIDING* of Good & Evil" = going beyond or dispensing with God's Law and making up your own as you like. *"deciding" and not "knowledge" is what the word really means in Hebrew. For the first 2 chapters of Genesis God goes around declaring "This is good ... this is good ... this is not good ... this is very good." The word for good here is "Tob" which basically means "good/beneficial for man." This is the power that Adam seeks -- "I really like cake so I decree that cake is good - sooo good I can eat all I want 5 times a day, and it will be good for me!" This, of course, is the essence of rebellion (sin) not to mention neurosis.