I recently heard that the center of a fig is actually a dead wasp. That seemed unlikely, but I googled it. Turns out, it’s not true. But it’s closer to being true than you might expect.
figs 1 & 2
Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, that article says it is true. It’s not a live or a whole wasp, but there is a wasp used to grow the fig. It’s just broken down in such a way that it’s impossible to distinguish the waspy bits from the figgy bits. Like when you eat nachos. Eventually, some part of you will be made of nachos, but it would be impossible to tell those parts apart from another other parts.
modifier@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Doctors estimate that I am approximately 8% nachos by now, but you’re right, we have a devil of a time distinguishing the nachos from all the non-nacho stuff that keeps me alive like bloody and oxygen and Krokodil
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yes, but we don’t say “your ham has a tuna hoagie in it” because someone tossed the pig a tuna hoagie one time.
afox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I was told as a child that the crunch was dead ants. Why any adult would ruin fig newtons for a kid is beyond me.
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
a cookie is a cookie but a newton is fruit and cake!
god these were such treasure as a child! I don’t think my children have even tried them but I sadly expect they might not love them the options are so much broader today.
And my store is having a sale on them now how lovely of the kids hate them I am sure i will at least get the satisfaction of finding them having been enshittified since I last tried them a decade ago!
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I love figs so much, I’d still eat them even if they were full of wasps.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Bullshit. It’s the same fig.
Beryl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
More like fig . 1a and fig. 1b
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exfigbits A & B
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Laziness. That figures.
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
All them figs look alike to you huh?
Godort@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Figga please
embed_me@programming.dev 1 week ago
Exquisite
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
the rare memec that you could take back hundreds of years and still make folks giggle with joy
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I snorted. This made my day, thank you.
Lucien@hexbear.net 1 week ago
This made me chuckle
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yummy figs
numjei@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which font is it ?
geogle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oleg McNoleg?
mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s the font that does it.
Muscar@discuss.online 1 week ago
Since the images of the figs are binarized too, I’m imagining a font fully made of figs from different angles.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You mean a single whole uncut fig for each capital letter? What would an R look like?