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[–] mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the font that does it.

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since the images of the figs are binarized too, I'm imagining a font fully made of figs from different angles. Uppercase letters would be whole figs, and lowercase would be figs cut in half like in the image.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean a single whole uncut fig for each capital letter? What would an R look like?

[–] btr_fan87@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something like this: Something like this.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I recently heard that the center of a fig is actually a dead wasp. That seemed unlikely, but I googled it. Turns out, it's not true. But it's closer to being true than you might expect.

I was a little worried about the crunchiness, but have been reassured it's indeed just seeds.

https://www.treehugger.com/are-there-really-wasps-your-figs-4868822

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, that article says it is true. It's not a live or a whole wasp, but there is a wasp used to grow the fig. It's just broken down in such a way that it's impossible to distinguish the waspy bits from the figgy bits. Like when you eat nachos. Eventually, some part of you will be made of nachos, but it would be impossible to tell those parts apart from another other parts.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doctors estimate that I am approximately 8% nachos by now, but you're right, we have a devil of a time distinguishing the nachos from all the non-nacho stuff that keeps me alive like blood and oxygen and Krokodil

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like when you eat nachos. Eventually, some part of you will be made of nachos, but it would be impossible to tell those parts apart from another other parts.

Yes, but we don't say "your ham has a tuna hoagie in it" because someone tossed the pig a tuna hoagie one time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you don’t. Is this the royal we?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel fairly confident that the proportion of people who would say such a thing is vanishingly small.

edit - k -> g

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ever meet a hog farmer?

Yeah. Neither have I

[–] afox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was told as a child that the crunch was dead ants. Why any adult would ruin fig newtons for a kid is beyond me.

I love figs so much, I'd still eat them even if they were full of wasps.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bullshit. It's the same fig.

[–] Beryl@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like fig . 1a and fig. 1b

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Exfigbits A & B

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Laziness. That figures.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I snorted. This made my day, thank you.

[–] numjei@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Which font is it ?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
[–] geogle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oleg McNoleg?