Rate your favorite fig bar
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5 members have voted
January 29th, 2020 at 6:23:09 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5112 | evidently this gets misrepresented, you decide if it is the youtube person or this link that is misrepresenting it
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-it-true-there-are-dead-wasps-in-figs/ I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
January 29th, 2020 at 6:46:40 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | We are what we eat ... and what eats us! Although the urban legend about worms in figs is not true, we are heavily influenced by a variety of micro-organisms as many such organisms control a variety of endogenous neurohormones that affect our moods and dietary preferences. Often parasites affect us more than we realize and current medical views embrace co-existence rather than eradication. So is it better to fight an infection or consider the infectious organism's needs and accommodate them? |
January 29th, 2020 at 7:05:10 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
That is somewhat odd. As one of the oldest cookies in the country there are lots of copies. |
February 5th, 2020 at 4:58:10 PM permalink | |
Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 | I like the ones from Trader Joe's. They are Trader Joe's branded. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
February 6th, 2020 at 3:15:35 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | low fat usually means they've taken out the good stuff and replaced it with bad. Organic usually has no defined meaning; its just an adjective used by salesmen. I doubt Trader Joe makes them. Someone bakes them and wraps them in Trader Joe's packaging. |
February 6th, 2020 at 4:58:30 AM permalink | |
Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
I don’t believe that they are labeled as low fat, but I’d have to look again. Same thing with, “Organic,” though I do know at $1.99/package, they are as cheap as any others I have seen. Most store-branded type items are not actually manufactured by the store, so that’s anything. There are sure to be a few exceptions where the stores actually do manufacture the items, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head. This is even true with some items that are, “Generic,” or lower-priced without being store-branded. Like the L’Oven Fresh bread you can find at Aldi stores in my area, Nickles Bakery makes that and puts it in a different bag. In any case, I disregard, “Organic,” completely. I only care about the price and what I am getting, so, “Organic,” does not factor at all. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
February 6th, 2020 at 6:27:09 AM permalink | |
Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 | I just looked, my Trader Joe's Fig Bites make no claims to be low-fat or organic, just, "Made with Turkish figs," which means that they have more than 0.000000000000000000% Turkish figs, even if not much more than that. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
February 6th, 2020 at 7:26:32 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Those terms relate to the other choices in the poll. |
February 6th, 2020 at 4:14:04 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Trader Joe's This Fig Walks Into a Bar Cereal Bars (low fat) $12.99 for 7.9 ounces (or $1.65 per counce) Nabisco Fig Newtons Chewy Cookies $10.51 for 48 ounces (or $0.21 per counce) Turkish figs are about 45 cents per ounce (retail)
Trader Joe's bars are very expensive. They should be able to afford any fig they want. |
February 6th, 2020 at 4:20:47 PM permalink | |
gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 | I like the strawberry Newton’s but I guess thats not a fig bar. |