I have just discovered the horrifying truth about figs
A fig is not a fruit. It's an internally blooming flower that can never spread its pollen on the wind. But every female fig (the ones we eat) is pollinated by a fig wasp, that climbs up into the fig and lays her eggs inside it. It gets worse
To get inside the fig the fig wasp has to break off her own wings. Inside, having pollinated the flowers and unable to escape, she dies, and the fig then produces enzymes that consume her carcass
you can buy these infected fleshy insect sarcophagi in sainsburys for gods sake
it's true, god hates figs
