Fear of the Day: figs

I think my first suspicion of the fig began when I realized Fig Newtons contained not chocolate, but fruit. Why would it parade around as a brown-colored dessert if it was not the delectable milky goodness of chocolate? That was my first clue that something was up.
I have since learned that figs contain even more than fruit: wasps. They have one of those “symbiotic” relationships going on. Figs require the wasps for pollination, and the wasps require the figs to mate. They crawl inside, lay their eggs and then die. The figs absorb their bodies, and then people eat them! Go fig. I’m sticking with chocolate. You can never be too safe.

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One Response to “Fear of the Day: figs”

Bob Says:
November 3, 2009 at 2:39 pm | Reply
God, no kidding, GOD, agrees. “Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.” http://bible.cc/matthew/21-19.htm I’m no Bible scholar, but it’s clear that the whole point of the Bible is that “you can never be too safe.”

I think.

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