Left field question

DCallahan said:
As fig growers we commonly use other fruit flavors to describe the flavor of our individual varieties. What other fruits out there in the world use fig as a flavor to describe their varieties?
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Interesting thought.... Perhaps why some often suggest that an unfamiliar meat, "tastes like chicken". I've still never found a fig that tastes like chicken.... I think it's more about familiarity. Pretty much everyone in North America knows what an apple and a banana tastes like... figs are still niche. So we need to keep explaining to people what to expect from any particular fig.

All this said... I'd give a bunch of ripe figs to try a good Cavandish Banana.... I hear they're amazing!
 
TorontoJoe said:
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Interesting thought.... Perhaps why some often suggest that an unfamiliar meat, "tastes like chicken". I've still never found a fig that tastes like chicken.... I think it's more about familiarity. Pretty much everyone in North America knows what an apple and a banana tastes like... figs are still niche. So we need to keep explaining to people what to expect from any particular fig.

All this said... I'd give a bunch of ripe figs to try a good Cavandish Banana.... I hear they're amazing!
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Id like to know where I can go to eat a "real" banana like what the flavoring is based on. I think they still exist?
 
I think the variation is too great - or, if they did, it would be the under ripe flavor most seem to share if picked too early "figgy" flavor, similar to under ripe melons, IMO.
 
What about dried dates. I ll eat a date and say to myself, man that is a great tasting fig if it was left to dry on the tree.
 
Thanks for asking but let me remind you that WE are the only ones with an INFLOURESENCE DRUPELET SECTION!!! whoa that was a mouthful
 
Kompakfigs said:
What about dried dates. I ll eat a date and say to myself, man that is a great tasting fig if it was left to dry on the tree.
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Dates sort of taste funny to me, not haha funny. lol
They're not bad, just.....a bit weird.
Maybe an acquired taste. :)
 
I don't think I have had a fruit that reminded me of a fig.
And now the question is. What is fig flavor?
Most non-fig people might think fig newtons.
Or maybe dried Sari Lop?
 
TorontoJoe said:
Zero! Zilch! Nada!

Interesting thought.... Perhaps why some often suggest that an unfamiliar meat, "tastes like chicken". I've still never found a fig that tastes like chicken.... I think it's more about familiarity. Pretty much everyone in North America knows what an apple and a banana tastes like... figs are still niche. So we need to keep explaining to people what to expect from any particular fig.

All this said... I'd give a bunch of ripe figs to try a good Cavandish Banana.... I hear they're amazing!
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A good Cavendish? Aren't those your standard grocery store bananas? If you can find red bananas, those are amazing. They are denser, creamier, with a pinkish interior and a slight mango flavor. Those are amazing.
 
Figgin' A said:
A good Cavendish? Aren't those your standard grocery store bananas? If you can find red bananas, those are amazing. They are denser, creamier, with a pinkish interior and a slight mango flavor. Those are amazing.
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Cavendish are the normal store bought type. The red ones are really good so is the apple bananas. Both are found in stores like whole foods.
 
I grow 9 varieties of bananas including Manazano but not Cavendish. Cavendish was selected for commercial exports in part because its thick skin helps with shipping. To me, other bananas have richer flavor (including the wonderful apple/acid taste of Manzano and Brazillian) and better (denser) mouth feel. A standard banana tastes good and the best bananas subjectively tastes really good, whereas a the range of fig tastes is meh to orgasmic.
 
GIV said:
I grow 9 varieties of bananas including Manazano but not Cavendish. Cavendish was selected for commercial exports in part because its thick skin helps with shipping. To me, other bananas have richer flavor (including the wonderful apple/acid taste of Manzano and Brazillian) and better (denser) mouth feel. A standard banana tastes good and the best bananas subjectively tastes really good, whereas a the range of fig tastes is meh to orgasmic.
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Orgasmic...let me know which varieties do that. :D
 
Figgin' A said:
A good Cavendish? Aren't those your standard grocery store bananas? If you can find red bananas, those are amazing. They are denser, creamier, with a pinkish interior and a slight mango flavor. Those are amazing.
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LoL! Yep! My brain was thinking about the banana that got phased out and it was replaced with the Cavendish. I meant the Gros Michel. That’s the one I’d love to try
 
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