figs vs dates

Figs by a mile

Figs, but this reminded me about the dates in my cupboard that will become toffee cake by the end of the night.

Deglet Noors from Djerid's palm trees are some of the best thing I've ever tasted. Still haven't tried a fig of that quality. So dates.

I have a lot of time for dates, but figs have my <3 because they taste so heavenly with rose petal jam and a tiny bit of goat cheese.

I like dates, but I don't even understand how this is a poll because figs are without question superior.

Figs are superior, but they go bad so quickly they're one of the few foods I really think of a special treat rather than a staple. I always have dates in the house - do they ever go bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIMTA4_YdU

Dates do have longevity on their side. But dried figs are delicious too.

I always thought, taste one date you've tated them all, not realizing that there are dates and then there are DATES, like some dates are just TREMENDOUS.

figs, but dates are getting a raw deal itt

Just used up the 200g of medjool dates I had lingering in the cupboard. They are now baking away in my oven as part of a sticky toffee pudding cake.

stay me with flagons, yo

I like both of these so much.

Gonna even this up a bit. Dates. Figs are good but dates are versatile, sumptiously-textured and a boon for my sweet tooth

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Never in doubt.

the best man won

I missed this.

IMO, anyone picking figs over dates has only encountered common Deglet Noor dates (85% of the US crop).

Medjool dates (~10% of the crop) are common enough in Mediterranean grocers, and are much better, but if you can find them, Halawy dates are supreme. A caramel that melts in your mouth.

figs are so good

I am eating so many figs

why would anyone eat any food that isn't figs

FIGS! Been looking for a fig tree, that time of year, but none to be found in OK. Will be in Texas soon and hopefully get some there...FREE! I can get dates all year. A perfect life would include a huge fig tree firmly on my property.

I like figs just fine but Medjool dates are food of the gods.

dates are usually too sweet for me. Date cookies can be delicious though.

fig prices are outrageous and astronomical!

I'd eat fresh figs every day this summer if the prices were halfway reasonable, but I tried 3 different supermarkets and $8/lb. was the lowest price I could find. are they expensive pretty much everywhere you go in New England, or am I just not shopping at the right places?

Geez figs grow everywhere here, every nonna's garden has a tree and they are giving them away half the time.

^deeply jealous of you

most of the figs I've seen here are grown in California, so I can imagine how difficult/expensive they must be to ship. but still, this is an outrage.

Yeah I guess Aus must have suitably warm climate for em.

Jealous. I would like to get a fig tree – I love figs + Bell Jar metaphor I've (hopefully) outgrown.

A coworker was watching me eat some figs at lunch very distrustfully – he did NOT want to try one, but every time I finished one, he said, "I'm still waiting for your face to scrunch up!"

One of my neighbors has a fig tree in their front yard and it is a total superego assault not to pick from it. The thing usually gets around ~10 figs, so I think they'd notice. They also have a "limequat" tree, and they once put up a sign that started out "HOW DARE YOU STEAL OUR LIMEQUATS." I did not want to steal one BEFORE, but NOW it's deeply tempting, mainly because I have no idea where/how else to get a limequat. They're the kind of sweet/Goldwatery old couple with a perfect house and U.S. flag on a pole in their front yard, like they're the county fish & game headquarters. Like the wife offered me "the last lemon" once, a "Ponderosa lemon" bigger than a softball. I can't steal their other fruit!!

limequats! what a time to be alive.

Around here a lot of backyards might back onto little access laneways (leftovers from the days of nightsoil carts or the milkman or something, probably). In some you can find trees growing out over the fence. Its a sort of unspoken thing that people will help themselves to anything on the "public" side of the fence - theres even a website up about places to find such fruits. I dont know if I'd dare, it'd be just my luck an angry old greek man would chase me down brunswick road.