(fig skin has a proteolytic enzyme in it. kinda like pineapple & papaya. will be fine, but that was a couple hours of ouch) (but wait! there's more! if you get the leaves/sap on your skin & stay out in bright sun, you can get 2nd degree burns) (the theological ramifications are staggering)
Waaat! Is it any better if they're cooked??
idk would have to Google it
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My parents planted a fig tree behind their house, under the bathroom window (they're funny that way). When I was pregnant with my first kiddo, I ate ALL THE FIGS off that sizable tree. All of them. Kid, now 20, has an oral fruit allergy since year 2 😅
I had a skin reaction to a fig leaf and figured I should stop eating figs, because clearly I’d developed an allergy. I now know this is bad logic, but still feel wary. We had a huge mature fig tree my dad cut down for reasons I cannot understand. It’s come back from the stump, he’s happy.
Oh yeah the leaf burn thing is universal, not an allergy. People can get more sensitized over time but that's usually "working in a fig orchard" levels of contact with the trees.
Interesting. Ficin sensitivity does develop with prolonged exposure, but casual contact rarely causes issues for most people.
The sap doesn't do anything at all to my hands, but I got a little on my belly yesterday & it started itching IMMEDIATELY washed it off with a lil soap & water & it was fine
God hates figs
Fig preserves are the bomb though.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t have to put anything on my skin to get 2nd degree burns when I stay out in the bright sun.
I got second degree burns from shopping in a mall with big sky lights lol
Me in the sun:
It's the tree of Dionysus, so there's gonna be a little feralness in your pleasure
feral and ferreal
Oh this is really interesting. I cannot eat pineapple but fresh figs don’t give me that problem. Or maybe I have never enough to find out. Hmmm how many do you need to eat to find out? I hope your mouth feels better soon.
oh it's fine I just didn't see it coming
curse of the dead wasps inside
most domesticated figs don't need wasps for pollination, they're doing this out of pure love of the game
Thank you, I thought I was allergic!
ooooh, like hogweed!
I peel them—does that fix it? Otherwise my squirrels are saving me from myself with our tree.
kinda yeah, allegedly the enzyme's mostly in the skin
Thank you! I’ve suffered enough with pineapples.
"Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it."
Jesus that’s a bit dark and petty.
Ba dum tish
I knew I was in the right place when I could riff on that passage during a department lunch and everyone would get the joke.
My students all think I'm really religious with how much I know about the bible, so I have to say no, I have no religion, I just grew up in a time when everyone knew that shit and also I love studying religions
GOD HATES FIGS
inb4 someone chimes in to say "but you could make fig jam / jelly / some kind of alcoholic concoction out of it!"
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fruit eats you
Must've been overcast
So tenderizing fig marinade is what I'm getting from this. Balsamic vinegar and sliced fig for pork loin maybe? With cracked black pepper and black garlic and shallots, maybe some mushrooms.
