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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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!
 
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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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.
 
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