Does the best cook on the forum know what these are?

[mint]

I'm talking about pulled figs of course[:P]

Today is one of those days, the very rare occasions when I get a guilty feeling of "better catch up with a fraction of all the things I should have done".  OK, I'll start by freeing up freezer space.  Who knows, in the event of being able to have people in to eat with again, I plan to do a stock up.

Got the last of the frozen figs out and started to make a spiced compote with them.  After I started, I remembered I had a pack of dried figs in a drawer and thought I might as well put them in with the frozen ones.

The pack said "pulled figs", what on earth......?  I have heard of pulled pork and pulled chicken and pulled legs even but, PULLED figs.......?

Well, shan't keep you wondering, I looked it up and here is the definition[:D]

[url]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulled%20figs[/url]

[anotherbanana]

I had heard that they were thus shaped between the ample thighs of Mediterranean ladies who sit in the sun and sing about men in barrels to whom they have given themselves!

[NormanH]

I, like DH Lawrence, have an intimate knowledge of figs..

https://www.best-poems.net/poem/figs-by-d-h-lawrence.html