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Fig producer here, I don't get the backslash about fig ...flower, there is no tiny wasp in there, its entirely broken down by the tree's enzymes. In ancient Gre
by planetis 5y ago
Fig producer here, I don't get the backslash about fig ...flower, there is no tiny wasp in there, its entirely broken down by the tree's enzymes. In ancient Greece it was the most popular and important fruit, a pillar of the economy.
...also the "milky latex" (that the tree bleeds) burns your skin and leaves scars. If in contact with my skin, I would wash it immediately and avoid any kind of experiments.
- planetis 5y agoThe Kimi PDO figs variety are the biggest, most sweet, fleshy figs in the world. Coupled with the traditional (goes back to antiquity) manual way of preparation and drying they are the king of sun dried figs.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> In ancient Greece it was the most popular and important fruit I would have guessed olives.
- tokai 5y agoOlives were definitely the most important fruit by far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(tree) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(tree)
- tsimionescu 5y agoYou're probably using the botanical term 'fruit', while the GP was using the culinary term 'fruit'. Olives are not fruit in the culinary sense (no one puts olives in a fruit salad).
- jasallen 5y agoslightly off topic, but my favorite example of the difference is that botanically, a green bean is a fruit.
- sokoloff 5y agoRelated: botanically, a banana is a berry.
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 5y agoAmerica has had lawsuits around scientifiv vs. "common" definitions of foods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
- senectus1 5y agothat grows on a herb plant.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Olives are not fruit in the culinary sense (no one puts olives in a fruit salad). I'm pretty sure this is wrong. No one puts lychees in a fruit salad either. There are a couple of things going on: 1. Lychees and fruit salads come from two different cultures, so there's no real way for lychees to be part of fruit salads. The groups "people who make fruit salads" and "people who eat lychees" have negligible intersection. 2. "Fruit salad" is a word that refers to something in particular. There's no obligation for fruit salad to include all fruits, and in fact it never does. But if you ask people what olives are, they'll tell you they are a fruit. And people put avocados in fruit salad all the time, despite the fact that, like olives, they are a nonsweet fatty fruit. https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/avocado-fruit-salad/ https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/avocado-fruit-salad/
- thaumasiotes 5y agoFollowing up on this, if you go to a restaurant in China and order "meat", you'll get pork. That's what "meat" means; any other type of meat will be specified as "chicken meat", "cow meat", "bullfrog", or etc. But that's not evidence that chicken isn't considered "meat". It is.
- tsimionescu 5y agoThat's actually another way of categorizing food, common in Europe and the US as well. A food menu will usually have a category for meat products, usually with pork, beef or chicken, more rarely duck, rabbit, or game, and a separate category for fish and seafood. At the same time, fish flesh is still considered meat in other circumstances.
- tsimionescu 5y agoAs a fun aside, in my family in Romania we do put lychees in a fruit salad, when we find some (usually canned). There are two separate points here: my point was specifically that culinary and botanical categories for the word fruit do not overlap - there are botanical fruit that few people around here would consume as culinary fruit, such as olives and cumin. There may be culinary fruit that are not botanically fruit (for example, some may consider rhubarb stalk 'fruit'). Even if you are right that when asked what olives are people would say 'fruit' (I believe you'd get a variety of responses, with some calling them legumes or even spices), that still doesn't mean that people think of them as fruit. If you ask someone to pick up some fruit from the market, they won't come back with olives. Your point is also correct, in that the culinary fruit category is culturally specific, and different cultures may regard different foods as 'fruit'. I doubt there is any culture where culinary fruit is perfectly matched with botanical fruit.
- the-smug-one 5y agoFor what it's worth I love figs. The varied texture, flavour and beauty. To me it's an amazing fruit.
- chrissoundz 5y agoIt is actually a great "home remedy" wart remover. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17472688/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17472688/
- alecst 5y agoSo cool, I'm totally gonna try this. I have a little guy on my finger.
- pvaldes 5y agoBetter not. Ficus latex has a substance that acts as an anti-sunscreen. It makes UV rays more dangerous and are activated in a sunny day. UV are one of the main reasons to have warts.
- planetis 5y agoif you want blisters instead of warts, cool. In all fairness, it might work, if you only put a tiny amount.
- MikeDelta 5y agoI love the smell of the fig tree.