/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10147175]

>Do all figs have wasps in them?
>If a female burrows into a female fig, she can't lay her eggs and dies of starvation. However, she does bring pollen into the internal flowers of the fig, pollinating it. ... So yes, there is at least one dead wasp inside the figs that we like to eat.

aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[Anonymous No.10147187]

>>10147175
Wasps are good for you, they're high in protein. Just remember to remove the legs, stinger, and wings so you don't cut your throat

[Anonymous No.10147232]

>>10147175
Honestly, i don't care, figs are great.

[Anonymous No.10147252]

>>10147175
>figs have wasps
I never paid attention to any of the figs i ate and i don't give a fuck to be honest.

[Anonymous No.10147255]

Cant be right.

[Anonymous No.10147371]

>eat fig
>see no wasps

What kind of second rate figs am I being sold, /ck/? I hate wasps and want to genocide them. Can I accomplish this by eating 1000 figs a day?

[Anonymous No.10147662]

>>10147371
If you kill all the wasps, figs will die out as well.

[Anonymous No.10147707]

What compels a wasp to burrow in a fig exactly

[Anonymous No.10147722]

>>10147232
>>10147252
>>10147255
>vegans in denial

[Anonymous No.10147731]

>>10147722
Seek help. What the fuck do you think they are vegans?

[Anonymous No.10147733]

>>10147662
A necessary sacrifice.

[Anonymous No.10147745]

>female wasp goes into fig
>lays eggs
>wings get torn off so she can't get out of fig
>dies
>eggs hatch
>hatched males mate with hatched females
>digs hole out of fig for females
>females fly out
>males have no wings
>males die

FUCK YEAH NATURE

[Anonymous No.10147747]

fresh figs are fucking delicious
It's a shame they're so hard to find, even in season.

[Anonymous No.10147765]

>>10147722
>I don't give a fuck when I accidentally eat a wasp
>calls me a vegan
are you ok in the head?

[Anonymous No.10147781]

>>10147707
evolution

>>10147371
iirc, enzymes within the fig dissolve the wasp and convert it to nutrients. Basically a long slow version of a Venus fly trap.

[Anonymous No.10147814]

>>10147707
A fig is an inside out flower
Or outside in rather

[Anonymous No.10147827]

>>10147175
wtf I love figs even more

[Anonymous No.10147831]

>>10147781
>>10147745
>dissolve the wasp and convert it to nutrients.
Figs are savage af.

>>10147747
>It's a shame they're so hard to find, even in season.
I didn't even get any this year. Rare to find them in stores. Fresh taste nothing like the dried ones, though both are delicious. Fresh fig is one of my favorite fruits but you have to perform a dance ritual to pagan gods to find any for purchase.
Is there any alcohol that is made from figs?

[Anonymous No.10147842]

>>10147175
These are non-commercial even ancient figs which would have had such pollination practices

[Anonymous No.10147844]

the common fig only needs wasps to produce seeds not figs. If you've ever eaten figs you've eaten them without seeds. fucking random ass wasps don't live everywhere figs have been transported.

[Anonymous No.10147854]

The proper way to eat a fig, in society,
Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,
And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.

Then you throw away the skin
Which is just like a four-sepalled calyx,
After you have taken off the blossom, with your lips.

But the vulgar way
Is just to put your mouth to the crack, and take out the flesh in one bite.

Every fruit has its secret.

The fig is a very secretive fruit.
As you see it standing growing, you feel at once it is symbolic :
And it seems male.
But when you come to know it better, you agree with the Romans, it is female.

The Italians vulgarly say, it stands for the female part ; the fig-fruit :
The fissure, the yoni,
The wonderful moist conductivity towards the centre.

Involved,
Inturned,
The flowering all inward and womb-fibrilled ;
And but one orifice.

The fig, the horse-shoe, the squash-blossom.
Symbols.

There was a flower that flowered inward, womb-ward ;
Now there is a fruit like a ripe womb.

It was always a secret.
That’s how it should be, the female should always be secret.

[Anonymous No.10147872]

>>10147175
My grandmother had a fig tree in the front lawn of her house. I can remember how much I loved those fresh figs. Plus she used to make jelly out of them and can it. Was incredible on toast

[Anonymous No.10147963]

>>10147854
>all that text
just wash the fig and eat it whole you fucking pussy.

[Anonymous No.10148604]

>>10147963
It's a poem you illiterate scum.

[Anonymous No.10148612]

>>10147831
>savage af.

[Anonymous No.10148630]

>>10147963
>wash the fig
Get a load of this sissy

[Anonymous No.10148662]

>>10147844
My grandpa had a fig tree and it was loaded with seeds

[Anonymous No.10148703]

>>10147745
the the female wasp undergoes a life cycle in then fruit itself?

[Anonymous No.10148754]

>>10147745
>>10148703
>wasp forcefully penetrates fruit and rots inside
>male enters to reproduce also dying inside
>their wings are ripped off so they die never knowing freedom again
>we eat the fruit
Brutal.

[Anonymous No.10148767]

>>10148754
Actually the males fuck their sisters before they hatch. A male never really leaves the fig. The closest he gets is burrowing to the outside to allow the females out before he dies. This doesn’t make much sense to me tho, since it would mean fig wasps are all inbred and wouldn’t allow for much genetic diversity, unless two females made their way into the same fig and both laid eggs in there.

[Anonymous No.10148782]

>>10147831
>Is there any alcohol that is made from figs?
Sure.
There is alcohol that is made from basically everything.

[Anonymous No.10148806]

>>10148767
I'm no geneticist, but a lot of species can get away with severe inbreeding for many generations. Most species don't file taxes though.

Even with humans, a single incidence of first-cousin incest isn't likely to result in any sort of abnormality, or so they say. And our gene-structure has been fucked to hell and back due to severe near-apocalyptic events in the past.

[Anonymous No.10148820]

>>10148806
Yes but this is a species who seems to always have brothers mating with their sisters. Then again I guess ants kind of do the same thing, and ants are defendants from wasps. I’m sure evolution figured something out for them.

[Anonymous No.10148837]

Some figs are self pollinating and do not need wasps, but the best varieties definitely have dead wasps inside.

[Anonymous No.10149277]

>>10147175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLSge-ojxJc
This thread needs a theme song.

[Anonymous No.10149495]

>>10148820
>>10148820
IIRC, all cheetahs are related fairly closely.

[Anonymous No.10149549]

>>10147745
Incestuous, underage, snuff orgy? Man, I love how nature always manages to find new ways to give me a boner.

[Anonymous No.10150027]

>>10148630
>he doesn't wash his figs
enjoy eating Monsanto's pesticides and your inevitable infertility

[Anonymous No.10150043]

[Anonymous No.10150089]

>>10149495
Yeah but that's because the cheetah population bottlenecked really fucking hard at one point fairly recently so the current genepool is all drawn from just a handful of animals.

[Anonymous No.10150099]

>>10150043

This is not okay

[Anonymous No.10150268]

>>10147747
>>10147831
>hard to find, even in season
Where?

[Anonymous No.10150275]

>>10147175
IDGAF about dead wasps
what really don't like are alive ones

[Anonymous No.10150769]

>>10147175
>ew wasps are gross to eat
>man I sure love shrimp, I'll just eat the hole thing, legs and all

[Anonymous No.10150786]

>>10147662
>I don’t like dogs or wasps.

Double win for me I guess?

[Anonymous No.10150802]

So every single fig gets pollinated? You'd think if one fig on the plant gets pollinated the whole tree does as well.

[Anonymous No.10150939]

>>10147814
An outside in is the same as an inside out

[Anonymous No.10153137]

>>10150802
No you wouldn't

[Anonymous No.10153170]

>>10150043

If I have wasp dreams tonight I will find you and I will be your personal wasp

[Anonymous No.10153184]

>>10150802
Please learn basic biology

[Anonymous No.10153202]

>>10150043
FOR WHAT PURPOSE!?

[Anonymous No.10153219]

I have a fig tree. The answer is some do and some don’t.

[Anonymous No.10153457]

Parthenocarpic figs with a closed eye will never have wasps in them. Not only can the wasps not enter the closed eye fig, but parthenocarpic fig varieties are the only figs that can be grown in regions lacking the pollinator (wasp). Ants will still be able to locate the eye, manually open it, and feed on the insides - so parthenocarpic figs may sometimes contain ants.

Used to grow commercially

[Anonymous No.10153564]

>>10153457
You seem knowledgable. What varieties of figs should i look to acquire? Im in Mediterranean type climate.

[Anonymous No.10153574]

>>10153457
You seem to know a lot about figging anon.

[Anonymous No.10153585]

>>10148612
Didn't you get the memo? We are normies now

[Anonymous No.10153671]

>>10147831

I live in WA and there is always an abundance of figs during summertime at every local grocer

[Anonymous No.10153779]

>>10148820
>>10148767
you think that it is the males that orivude most genetic diversity?

[Anonymous No.10153802]

>>10150043

[Anonymous No.10153937]

>>10153564
If you're buying figs from the market, you have nothing to be concerned about, there won't be any wasps.

[Anonymous No.10153953]

>>10153585
But we do it ironically, of course.

[Anonymous No.10153987]

>>10147175
>fresh fig
with some chevre and lemon zest please

[Anonymous No.10153997]

>>10150043
Come on

[Anonymous No.10154005]

>>10147854
Based Lawrence

[Anonymous No.10154034]

>>10150802
No, they wouldn't. Let me put it this way; if a woman was fertilised, does that mean her sisters are pregnant too?

[Anonymous No.10154039]

>>10147175
I have 2 fig trees and I never even see wasps near it

[Anonymous No.10155259]

>>10153184
>>10153137
>>10154034
Usually a tree has flowers that get pollinated and once they are the fruits produce seeds. Are there other trees that get every fruit pollinated individually?

[Anonymous No.10155393]

>>10153937
I dont care about super market figs. I want to grow top tier varieties. In my current home i grow no less than 50 different fruit varieties.

This year i am trying to expand into figs, mulberries, blueberries, raspberries, and grapes.

[Anonymous No.10155472]

>>10153137
>>10153184
snarky 4chan is my favourite

[Anonymous No.10155575]

What do fresh figs taste like, /ck/? I’ve only ever had fig newtons

[Anonymous No.10155581]

>>10147175
can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet, but even if your fig contains a wasp, the wasps that pollenate figs are around 1.5 mm long. you woul barely even be able to see it with your naked eye

[Anonymous No.10155586]

>>10155472
being snarky doesn't make them wrong but you being dumb does

[Anonymous No.10155590]

They don't just grow figs out in the open to get pollinated do they?
I thought this only applies to wild figs.
Figs are expensive man.

[Anonymous No.10155601]

>>10154034
>does that mean her sisters are pregnant too?
Yes
Sincerely, Mike Pence

[Anonymous No.10156322]

>>10155575
They taste like fig newtons

[Anonymous No.10157575]

>>10147175
I'm not sure but I don't think those wasps survive in colder climates. I've never noticed any wasps in or near my Fig trees.

[Anonymous No.10157653]

>>10155601

[Anonymous No.10158650]

>>10147747
Where are you, mate? I harvested 20+ liters (5 gal) from one tree last season. Turkey figs. Want a couple of cuttings?

[Anonymous No.10158662]

>>10147831
Fig brandy. Flavor is really strong though.

[Anonymous No.10160239]

>>10147707
It has something to do with mating IIRC.

[Anonymous No.10160351]

>>10150043
AaaaaaaaAaaaAaaaaaaaaaAaAAaaaaaaaaaa!!
FUCK OFF.

[Anonymous No.10160425]

>>10147854
nice
but as mentioned already, I eat figs whole
and people sometimes look at me funny for that, can you imagine
>>10150027
>fuckin pesticides
which is understandable and maybe true even
>but I'll defeat those if I wash the fig
this though isn't

[Anonymous No.10160601]

>>10160425
>this though isn't
are you that soccer mom who has to wash her fruits with soap before eating them?