Rose saves the Apollo bar. I think that all of the damn Dharma food is somehow bad to eat - maybe it has something to do with the injections that Desmond was taking. Anyway, I think that the survivors are going to experience something that Rose won't experience because she abstained from the chocolate bar indulgence.

Zip

Could be...I interpreted it that she was saving it for Bernard, because he
had a sweet tooth, and she knows he's still alive.

Yeah, she saved it for Bernard because she said he had a sweet tooth. I thought it was really sweet. :smile:

I don't like the contaminated food theory. Everyone sick and/or acting weird. How do you write for that without some McGiver solution in the end?

i also i agree she saved it for bernard

I realize that she was saving it for Bernard, but I was commenting on the side-effect of this action - that she is the only person who is not eating Crazy Dharma Food.

Zip

Yeah, she saved it for Bernard. Except it's going to be all melted when she gives it to him.

Saved it for Bernard. It cut from Bernard finding out about Rose to seeing her pocket the candy.

She said to Hurley when he was inventorying the bars she had never heard of Apollo bars, so she probably didn't like/ cound't eat chocolate or nuts. I think when she eventually gets reunited with Bernard she gives it to him.

Everyone has officially missed my point. This thread didn't pose the question, "OMG **WHY** DID SHE POCKET THE CANDY?"Zip

Intrestring idea, it would explain why the other survivors were killed off *maybe?*

We'll see. And we need names for the other survivors.

Everyone has officially missed my point. This thread didn't pose the question, "OMG **WHY** DID SHE POCKET THE CANDY?"Zip


OK, OK, Zipdot. We were having a moment...
Let's wipe the tears from our eyes and get back to work...

Well if the sickness had to do with the food, then that eliminates the tailenders from
having the sickness because they have not been exposed to the food.

Unless there was some food in their Hatchlet left over from the rogue Dharma folk.

Good point Zipdot. I was thinking along the same lines. Everyone is eating food that is no telling how many years old. No one is using their brains here on this island, especially when they were lead to believe that Desmond has been there for 3 years waiting for someone else to come. It stands to reason that the food has been there longer than that.

When Hurley had the "dream" about English speaking Jin and the chicken man, I was sure he was delusional and hallucinating from eating contaminated food. Maybe that dream was a foreshadowing.

I agree that Rose was stashing the candy away to give to Bernard, but it may prove to be the smartest thing she ever did when all the others end up with the dharma cookie flu.

remember now sun didnt eat too. she was busy putting the bottle in the hole.

I got the impression that Rose was smiling in this part because she knew that Bernard found out she was okay. And yeah she's saving it for him.

How do we know Rose didn't eat something else & we just didn't see it?

So, what? All the lostaways are going to become infected, go crazy and start flipping out? Jack, Kate, Sayid, Charlie, Locke, Claire, Shannon, etc. will go nutzoid and start battling the rafters and tailsectioners with Rose and Sun on their side.

Um, all I can say is, that will be the moment I turn the show off, forever.

C'mon TPTB are way way way better than that in developing something that will keep ahold of us for a long long time.

I'll go out on a limb here. The food is not bad! There's enough going on that such a sub-plot is unnecessary and to be quite honest, cheap.

This episode and it's focus on the food was used as a mechanism to give Hurley an opportunity to turn 'fortune' on its ear by heading off the potential for everyone going bonkers over who gets what. It aloud Hurley to take control over a situation that was potentially going to control him and make everything bad like his experience with winning the lottery. He slapped fate in the face by making an unexpected decision by giving it all away!

Yeah, she saved it for Bernard. Except it's going to be all melted when she gives it to him.

haha. that exactly what I thought.. Wont it get all melty in her pocket?

I also assumed she was saving it for Bernard.. and I thought it was really sweet. I don't think the food is laced with crazy pills... Desmond has been eating it and he didn't seem to be that much of a nut.

The people on the raft did not eat it either, so if there were something in the food, they would not be affected.

I just don't see the food being contaminated. Why would Desmond eat it then? Yeah, he has that injection, but why subject himself to that?

Ok. This is what I think. The food with the Dharma logo (peanut butter/Claire) is contaminated. The food without the logo (candy/Kate) is not contaminated. The Injections Desmond gave himself (although he never knew the reason) was to counter affect the drug in the food. This way the experimental specimens (lostaways) would not make the food connection very fast.

Also, it seems that Rose is a person "who knows things". She has a shine to her (as Stephen King would say). Maybe Hurley is a person "who makes things happen" (firestarter-esc). Maybe it's good that they will be hanging out together because Hurley makes bad things happen but blames the numbers and feels guilty. Rose maybe the one to help him make better decisions. Walt not only has the shine but can make things happen.

I think Rose saves the candy for her husband because she knows she's gonna see him soon.

I can agree with the contaminated food theory... because my thought, when Hurley said there was only enough food for a few days was if that's all that was in there... how has Desmond lived for two years?? Who is restocking the pantry? And how? And when? Does it just appear in the night like "Big Brother?"

I think it could be contaminated also, maybe that's what killed Calvin/Kelvin and Desmond stopped eating it.

I do NOT think the food is contaminated.

Obviously, the "button-pusher" is serving an important duty. It'd be DOWNRIGHT STUPID for the Dharma people to give him contaminated food. Um, duh.

Desmond has been eating the food for three years, and he's not sick or crazy.

She was clearly saving it for Bernard, and I don't get what other point you're making by that. We know her motivation. Also, nothing we saw in the episode proves she didn't eat anything at all from down there, we only know she saved one candy bar. For all we know she mowed down some potato chips right before she saved the candy bar for her hubby.

You know who else hasn't eaten the food the whole time she's been there and hasn't gotten sick? Danielle -- for 16 years.

Desmond has been eating the food for three years, and he's not sick or crazy.
We don't know that he's not sick or crazy. And he was taking injections -- while he was in the bunker. Maybe the injections counteract the sickness.

There is a lot to this show, I agree. But the food now being contaminated? There is so much else going on right now, I just can't believe the writers of the show would actually go down this particular path. I'm taking the scene for what it's worth. The candy bar is for Bernard. :)

We don't know that he's not sick or crazy. And he was taking injections -- while he was in the bunker. Maybe the injections counteract the sickness.

Hello, that's right. I said that but no one heard me (carodeluxe). Des was eating the food and taking the injections, ie drug in food is counter acted by the med in injections.

Wow. To respond to what you ACTUALLY meant by your original post...I think you are correct. There's no way that food is 100% safe. There has to be something wrong with it.