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packman

(16,296 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:15 PM Aug 2016

Dammit - And I liked Figs

I look at those shows where they eat insects and "Yuck"--- Seems like my fondness for figs (had two trees full of them) turned me into an unknowing insect eater.

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Dammit - And I liked Figs (Original Post) packman Aug 2016 OP

Exra added protein blogslut Aug 2016 #1

Many types are parthenocarpic, machining they don't need pollination. Also, figs digest the wasps uppityperson Aug 2016 #2

I'm not sure what you machine by that. eppur_se_muova Aug 2016 #7

Figs are the bomb. FigTree Aug 2016 #3

Figs, dates, raisins.... Runningdawg Aug 2016 #4

I'll eat fig newtons.... Historic NY Aug 2016 #5

I love fresh figs, but I have to admit that kind of bummed me out. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #6

blogslut

(37,985 posts)

1. Exra added protein

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:43 PM

Aug 2016

...no charge.

(An old waitron joke fantasy response to: "There's a fly in my soup!&quot

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

2. Many types are parthenocarpic, machining they don't need pollination. Also, figs digest the wasps

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:54 PM

Aug 2016

From wiki "several commercial and ornamental varieties of fig are parthenocarpic and do not require pollination to produce (sterile) fruits; these varieties are not visited by fig wasps."

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/fig-wasp2.htm

When a female wasp dies inside an edible fig, an enzyme in the fig

called ficin breaks down her carcass into protein. The fig basically digests the dead insect, making it a part of the resulting ripened fruit. The crunchy bits in figs are seeds, not anatomical parts of a wasp.

My figs just ripened and I got a few the deer missed and they are yummy!

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)

7. I'm not sure what you machine by that.

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 07:31 PM

Aug 2016

Spellcheck strikes again!

FigTree

(347 posts)

3. Figs are the bomb.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:09 PM

Aug 2016

And so are lobsters...

Runningdawg

(4,514 posts)

4. Figs, dates, raisins....

Reply to packman (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:17 PM

Aug 2016

they all have insect parts. I was mortified for about 15 minutes when someone told me not to eat them as a child. They also told me not to eat the berries off the mulberry tree in the front yard. I was probably in my early teens when I became aware mulberries were not supposed to be crunchy. Ants. I had raisins for breakfast and if I were close to a mulberry tree, I would still be climbing it to get a belly full LOL