AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-April 1 to May 1

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I've never even seen a fig tree!

Well, to tell you the truth, when I met Robvalue, last year, I spotted a fig tree near his home and showed it to him... he said he didn't know that was a fig tree!

This is roughly what it looks like from below:

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There is a fig quality which we call "honey drip" which is just divine...

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Yes, that is sweet as honey.


But the other side, the side which is attached to the tree, as soon as you pick them, the tree's sap seeps through... we call it the milk, because it's white, but that's where the similarities end. It's bitter like heck... very acid... that's the part that stings.
Here you see that they put some of the fig tree's leaves under the figs. That's to catch any of that acid so that it doesn't damage the container, or the table. And we usually don't eat that tip.

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You need to come to Portugal in the Summer to go Fig-picking! There are fig trees almost abandoned that we can just stop the car near them and pick a few figs.