What? Figs are not vegan? How about kosher?
Haha, yeah, as a vegan, this is interesting!
I don't think this makes figs unvegan though. At least, eating figs is just as vegan as building a house out of limestone.
What a fig is.
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#72So, in other words, a fig is a righteous bastard. And, in its choice of symbiont (a wasp, of all things), reveals a sense of irony that's as delicious as the fruit itself. It's the WINfruit!
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time to quibble! 1.) Wasps as man's greatest enemy? Really? If we were being poetic, here, then I'd say that Man's greatest enemy is Man themselves, but this is HN, so I won't. For a runner up, I would at least choose an animal that can actually kill a healthy human, rather than one that and annoy a healthy human and kill a subset with allergic reactions of venom. 2.) There are a lot of species of wasp. According to…
Nectar is also a term used for sweetened and watered down (until it is drinkable) fruit puree. I haven't seen any recently, but you used to be able to buy apricot nectar at any grocery store, and gourmet food shops often had pear and peach nectars as well (and rarely oddballs like plum or blackberry).
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#74Sorry, I don't read Andrew Sullivan. Supported invasion of Iraq, no mea culpa, wrong about pretty much everything else too.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we were being poetic, here, then I'd say that Man's greatest enemy is Man themselves, but this is HN, so I won't. For a runner up, I would at least choose an animal that can actually kill a healthy human, rather than one that and annoy a healthy human and kill a subset with allergic reactions of venom. How about one that kills one to three million humans, mostly very young children, every year? The mosquito is man…
Surely it is the malaria parasite that is the killer, rather than the mosquito?
And the guy sitting in jail isn't the killer, but his gun? No, strike that. It's not the gun, but the bullet.
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#76Ripe figs are delicious, and knowing that they've also, potentially killed a wasp - man's greatest enemy - only makes their nectar sweeter to my tongue.
The knowledge of enclosed vespine corpses just adds one more item to my growing list of things I hate about fig trees, of which I have two. Two fig trees are at least one and probably two fig trees too many. Too much pruning is required because spring growth is extensive. Too much fall raking is required because there's a ton of foliage too. But the real pain in the ass is harvesting. Figs really have to ripen on the…
You my friend, have some serious fig issues and have created the most compelling case I have ever heard for NOT planting a fig tree, ever.
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#77Take a fig. Okay, take about 8 of them. And take 8 strips of thick-cut, maple-smoked, peppered organic bacon, the best you can find. Wrap the fig in the bacon, secure with a toothpick, and place on a pan. Roast at 425F for about 25 minutes, checking after about 15 minutes. I assure you, you will not be disappointed.
this is why i love hacker news.
For the recipes, the sarcasm, or the intellectual banter?
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#78Biology is strange. If I had read this in a sci-fi book, I would think the author went overboard.
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