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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's the font that does it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Since the images of the figs are binarized too, I'm imagining a font fully made of figs from different angles. Uppercase letters would be whole figs, and lowercase would be figs cut in half like in the image.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You mean a single whole uncut fig for each capital letter? What would an R look like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Something like this: Something like this.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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.

I was a little worried about the crunchiness, but have been reassured it's indeed just seeds.

https://www.treehugger.com/are-there-really-wasps-your-figs-4868822

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 blood and oxygen and Krokodil

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Yes, but we don't say "your ham has a tuna hoagie in it" because someone tossed the pig a tuna hoagie one time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you don’t. Is this the royal we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I feel fairly confident that the proportion of people who would say such a thing is vanishingly small.

edit - k -> g

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ever meet a hog farmer?

Yeah. Neither have I

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 if 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I love figs so much, I'd still eat them even if they were full of wasps.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Bullshit. It's the same fig.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More like fig . 1a and fig. 1b

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Exfigbits A & B

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Laziness. That figures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All them figs look alike to you huh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Figga please

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exquisite

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a meme that you could take back hundreds of years and still make folks giggle with joy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

This made me chuckle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I snorted. This made my day, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yummy figs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Which font is it ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oleg McNoleg?