This is weird, but every time I see eggplant I think of that old 1980’s Nintendo game Kid Icarus.  My siblings and I used to play that for hours.  There’s a part in that game where you’re in a dungeon and you come across an eggplant-throwing monster.  You have to dodge the flying purple eggplants as you pass through the room and if you get hit by one you turn into a giant eggplant with feet.  I think that game was actually where I first found out about eggplants.  Strange, I know.  A little sad?  Perhaps.