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I'm not a fig or prune person, but I do like raisins, especially chocolate covered ones :)
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Fig newtons 😋
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Prunes are dried plums. Fresh plums are great. Prunes and prune juice you associate with constipation. Plums taste as good as raisins, and they are good.

Figs come from fig trees with the big leafs that you see on greek male statues covering their personal space..

One restaurant had such statute in womens restroom. If you lift the leaf, an alam or bell would go off inside the main room.... It was pretty funny howmany times that alarm would sound. !!!
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Fresh figs straight off the tree are good. Seedy, but good. sticky.
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I never seen a wasp in a fig tree... When I do find one, they are usually small, so I grab a few paper towels, spray it down a bit with bug spray, stuff it into my doggy poop bag, and grab the whole thing and making it sure it's secure in the bag, tie it off, and toss it in the trash can. The wasp poop is gone and Done..

no big deal. if you have more that you can't get to, that may be a different story
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A wasp is not a fruit, vegans cannot eat wasps.
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I thought my entire life that song said "Piggy pudding" I always wondered what that could be, just a made up fun item and then I thought it must be some type of pork jelly.

I am cracking up right now.

Figs are so delicious, so I guess I am a wasp eater. Who would have thunkit? Not the piggy pudding.
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You all make me smile.

I quite enjoy how a subject can lead to interesting conversation and enlightenment,

Sorry Llama. Learning about lots of foods would make one not want to eat it again.

Lu is a brave lady. :)
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lucky: You don't say.
Send: ROFL.
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Llama...There's a bunch of recipes for Figgy pudding if you google it,all kinds~
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Still innocent here.
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Smeshque: Now I do NOT like figs! Yucky! Super gross! Gag!
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A relative in Slovakia just posted a "not-so-inviting" treat - Wasp cookies. Yuck! I'll pass on that as I could think of were the wasp nests that were invading out window panes! Not so inviting OR appetizing!
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Send: Because YOU called it figgy pudding so that'd what I thought it was - a pudding.
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Lol, ha ha ha.
A fruit by any other name.

Is it a tomato?
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Did anyone notice the statement about figs that I copied and pasted that stated fig is not a fruit, but an inverted flower, so the wasp.

Then that quote continues to call fig a fruit a couple of times. 😄
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I have to say my favorite things are animals and being surrounded by nature. I’m completely burned out on people and civilization. I swear to myself that when this is all over that I’m selling whatever I have and going off grid. Probably not realistic for a number of reasons, but the thought of it keeps me going.
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Figs with wasps ranks right up there with trout with the heads still on.

It helps a bit that we do not eat the male figs, with the wasps.😫
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i recall those perverse fig bars that there seemed to be an abundance of when i was a kid . i never figured out if they were supposed to be a treat or a punishment .

briny hell .
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Llama,
I just printed out some verses to a song.
Totally innocent here.
I was going to ask you what is fig pudding?
but then you asked me for the recipe.

I am so confused, and now I am sure you all are from a different land,
way back when. Figs, wasps, inverted flowers...
And BTW, is a fig the same as a prune? They are looking kinda gross to start with!. (The prunes, I mean.)
Thanks for the lesson Glad.

Oh, gotta run now, just found my semi-sweet chocolate bar. Been missing for 3 days!

Madge, my first date was a Norwegian!

Pardon me, I think the free association bug has bit me.

"The hills are alive, with the sound of music!"
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I love figs and dates and a good old Norwegian prune whip
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I eat Figs at Christmas time with dried apricot halves, Maraschino cherries & Pineapple.I Love it,wasps and all~
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Yeah, kinda gross. Just to expand on glad's message.
But the wasps enter the male figs, and we eat the female figs.
It is rare that the female wasp will enter the female fig, as there is no room to lay eggs. But yet it can happen and if the wasps enters the female fig(the one we eat, well I don't eat), then she dies there. But the figs enzymes will break the wasp down mostly, but not all the way. So yes it is possible to eat a wasp in your figs.

So there you go, but really eating a little wasp is probably way better than a lot of the things that they add to foods. Yup!
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I used to make a steamed cranberry pudding, served with hard sauce. It was wonderful!

Fig pudding. Do you look for the wasp when preparing fruit?

As the Huffington Post points out, figs are not fruit– they're actually inverted flowers. As such, they require a specific kind of pollination that can only come from fig wasps– wasps that have to die inside the fruit in order for the fruit to mature, since figs cannot be pollinated by wind or normal bees.

That is my learn something new every day for today.
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Send: What is the recipe for that fig pudding? Just wonderin'. That reminds me how much I like figs!
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We won't go until we get some!
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Send: Fig pudding? Yum! I haven't eaten a fig in "a month of Sundays."
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This song!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Traditional
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding,
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding,
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer. Refrain

We won't go until we get some,
We won't go until we get some,
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here. ......

Sounds more like trick or treat!
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Tasks caught up when I didn't think it could be done.
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Send, great song and wonderful movie! Definitely a classic...
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