/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11058513]

Red pill me on figs

[Anonymous No.11058521]

>>11058513
Figs contain dead wasps. No, seriously. Google it. There's a snopes article and everything.

[Anonymous No.11058920]

>>11058521
Depends on the species of fig. Common figs are parthenocarpic (celeste, brown turkey, alma, etc) and neither need nor use the fig wasp.

[Anonymous No.11058948]

>>11058521
>Snopes

[Anonymous No.11058963]

>>11058513
We had a huge Celeste tree when I was a kid. Figs are extremely delicate, to the point where contact with the leaves can discolor or damage them. Spoils quickly once ripe, and along with the delicacy explains why you can't really find fresh figs unless you grow them yourself. Fresh figs are utterly heavenly, dried figs are rather nasty and dont begin to compare to fresh, any more than dried apples compare with fresh apples. They're easy to grow if you're in the right climate, the biggest problem is keeping the squirrels and birds from lifting the entire crop. Can be turned into preserves, but are best with cheese, or just eaten whole right off the tree. I recently planted an Alma and a Texas Everbearing, and am beginning to get a decent crop, got a few dozen last year, and a few hundred this year. Next year I'll probably be overrun with them.

[Anonymous No.11058988]

>>11058521
>Needing a snopes article to confirm that
How sheltered are you. Just open up a damn fig and you'll see the tiny little fucker.

[Anonymous No.11058996]

>>11058513
>redpill
fuck off

[Anonymous No.11059018]

>>11058988
I need an explanation that a figless neet can access. It would be kind of dumb for me to tell people to check a fig when it's likely that they don't have any.

[Anonymous No.11059031]

>>11058521
That's not true. Wild figs reproduce using them, but fig trees are sexually dimorphic and only one of them (idr which) accomodates the wasp. We propagate the other sex, which means no wasps.

[Anonymous No.11059101]

>>11058996
Make me

[Anonymous No.11059108]

God hates them.

[Anonymous No.11059756]

>>11058920
they sure taste better caprified though

[Anonymous No.11059769]

they taste good and they have little things inside them that look like sperm cells

[Anonymous No.11059984]

>>11058513
I like fig jam

[Anonymous No.11060023]

>>11059108
12 And the next day when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry.

13 And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he found nothing but leaves. For it was not the time for figs.

14 And answering he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard it.

19 And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city.

20 And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

21 And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree, which thou didst curse, is withered away.

22 And Jesus answering, saith to them: Have the faith of God.

[Anonymous No.11060027]

>>11058513
it's fruit you massive fruit. just eat it. you don't have to be convinced of anything.

[Anonymous No.11060032]

>>11058963
All of this.
Fresh figs are one of the most heavenly foods

[Anonymous No.11060042]

fresh figs are super delicious
they also spoil super quickly

[Anonymous No.11060491]

>>11058513
gross

bland, horrible texture, goes bad quick, all around disappointing

[Anonymous No.11060676]

>>11058521
you do know they started using Naive to cultivate figs since the time of jesus

[Anonymous No.11060679]

>>11058996
gayed and redpilled

[Anonymous No.11061847]

>>11058513
Bought pic related at Big Lots on a whim.
They were great, but no one else liked them. Chewy, sweet, and grainy in the middle.