Unexpected Food Gifts

[liuzhou]

7 hours ago, Shelby said:

 

The same man keeps bees and has given us some delicious honey. 

 

Do, the bees harvest the figs for nectar? My friend who recently sent me lychees from the family lychee farm also sends me lychee honey which I like a lot. Never seen fig honey, though.

[blue_dolphin]

11 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

Do, the bees harvest the figs for nectar? My friend who recently sent me lychees from the family lychee farm also sends me lychee honey which I like a lot. Never seen fig honey, though.

I’ve never seen fig honey either. Maybe the figs are sweet enough as is. Or because figs are generally pollinated by wasps so the bees take their business elsewhere. 

[liuzhou]

5 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

I’ve never seen fig honey either. Maybe the figs are sweet enough as is. Or because figs are generally pollinated by wasps so the bees take their business elsewhere. 

 

Digging around has revealed that there is something called "fig honey", but it isn't honey at all and not made by bees, but people. It's a syrup made from figs.

 

How to Make Fig Honey

[haresfur]

1 hour ago, liuzhou said:

 

Do, the bees harvest the figs for nectar? My friend who recently sent me lychees from the family lychee farm also sends me lychee honey which I like a lot. Never seen fig honey, though.

 

The "flower" part of figs is internal to the fruit and are pollinated by wasps that burrow into the centre. So bees can't make honey from them. However, fig trees can produce fruit parthenocarpically, without pollination.

Edited August 12 by haresfur
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[liuzhou]

I'm clearly fig ignorant. The only figs we get here are dried. I've never bought them. They're usually used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

 

 

[liuzhou]

Duh! It gets worse! I'm an idiot. The Chinese for 'fig' is 无花果 (wú huā guǒ) which literally means 'no flower fruit'. 

 

Reminder to self: Don't post before your second coffee of the morning.

 

 

[Maison Rustique]

My sis brought me 3 tins of these fish meals--the Moroccan, Barcelona and Provence. Can't wait to try them!

 

https://freshemeals.com/

 

[ElsieD]

What a nice sister!

[Shel_B]

27 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

My sis brought me 3 tins of these fish meals--the Moroccan, Barcelona and Provence. Can't wait to try them!    https://freshemeals.com/

 

Looks interesting. You'll have to tell us how you like them.

[Ddanno]

Those prices terrified me at first until I bothered to read the small print.

 

Better marketing, people!

[Maison Rustique]

Just now, Ddanno said:

Those prices terrified me at first until I bothered to read the small print.

 

Better marketing, people!

 

I thought the same!

 

Sis said she'd bought a bunch and had been eating them for lunch at work and they were really good, but she'd gotten tired of them for now.

[Smithy]

8 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

 

I thought the same!

 

Sis said she'd bought a bunch and had been eating them for lunch at work and they were really good, but she'd gotten tired of them for now.

 

So was she giving you tins she was tired of, or did she manage to buy a sample pack? I'm not seeing your particular combination in one package. They do look interesting!