FIG

今天中午跟著同事 Tine 吃飯，飯後他請我吃個水果，叫做FIG，查了字典才知道是台灣常吃的「無花果」，吃起來像山竹一般清甜爽脆。


無花果

甜而軟的水果，富有許多小種子，經常乾燥後食用，新鮮的無花果是很美味的，並且用以製作果醬或是甜酸醬，由於其果皮相當薄，因此成熟的無花果很難被完好地運送，所以通常只有在原產地才能吃到新鮮成熟的果實，而在許多溫暖國家中，無花果經常曬乾以便運送儲存。

soft sweet fruit, full of small seeds and often eaten dried. Fresh figs are delicious and often jam and chutney is made from them. The skin of figs is very thin and ripe figs can't be kept or transported very well. As figs have to be picked when ripe you only can eat them fresh in the country of origin. In the warm countries the figs are dried for export and storage.

資料來源：http://www.thefruitpages.com/figs.shtml


象徵典故

因為無花果花的型態不易察覺，所以古老的印度人認為無花果是一種不開花的樹種，佛教徒與印度教徒曾寫下關於「在無花果樹上找花朵」比喻某事情是無意義或是不可能的意思，或是表示差勁糟糕的含意。

Because of the peculiar form of the flower of figs, ancient Indians regarded the fig as a flowerless tree. Buddhist and Hindu texts sometimes refer to 'seeking flowers in a fig tree' to indicate something that is pointless or impossible, or to indicate the total absence of some quality

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