Hi !
It looks like ya'll had a lot of fun. That is such a nice, clean looking fig farm.
When I read "one was all-you-can eat for forty-minutes".... it made me laugh ! I never heard of such a thing. I think I would have chosen the option you did though.
When I read that you said you got 9 or 10 figs, I thought "that does not sound like many", but then I saw your baskets and realized those figs are much bigger than the ones I am familiar with here. My Mom has some fig bushes in her yard and some years they have so many figs that she gives as many away as possible.
I did not grow up around figs, even though it seems some kinds grow well here. My Mom remarried after my father passed years ago and my stepdad loved the figs. That is why they planted them. He grew up in a very financially poor family and when they were children, sweet figs were a wonderful treat to them. He was a hard worker and did very well in his adult life, but the childhood memories kept his love for figs strong.
I did know that figgy pudding was a real pudding, but I had never seen or heard of it locally. It didn't sound good to me ! ha ha... but I bet it is.
I like your plated fruit art. 😊
The all-you-can-eat concept is common here at farms. I think the fig experience is kind of rare but the concept is more common at strawberry, grape, pear, peach and apple farms.
😆”All-you-can-eat” sounds good but can be tricky. One can eat so much and no more of one thing. Lol!! I tried it at a pear farm. The pears were so big, juicy and filling. I could only eat two. Three would have been a stretch. A friend of mine can really handle large quantities of food. He had a lot of pears but had to visit the restroom quite often. All that juice and fiber gave way. 😂😂🤣🤣 I always use his experience to gauge what I might be able to handle at a farm. Strawberries, I can do but I didn’t want to get too figgy. Lol!😃Thanks @jacey.boldart. Yes, it was fun especially because it was a new experience.
When I read that you said you got 9 or 10 figs, I thought "that does not sound like many", but then I saw your baskets and realized those figs are much bigger than the ones I am familiar with here. My Mom has some fig bushes in her yard and some years they have so many figs that she gives as many away as possible.
I did not grow up around figs, even though it seems some kinds grow well here. My Mom remarried after my father passed years ago and my stepdad loved the figs. That is why they planted them. He grew up in a very financially poor family and when they were children, sweet figs were a wonderful treat to them. He was a hard worker and did very well in his adult life, but the childhood memories kept his love for figs strong.
😃Thanks re the fruit art.
That figgy pudding got me. A friend of mine was gifted a box of figs. She researched some recipes and that’s when she realized figgy pudding was really a thing. When she told me, we cracked up at how we sang the song but really didn’t know what we were singing. 😂🤣🤣
Have a lovely weekend. 🎶