to eat the fig skin

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apparently i should have peeled it. but its soft, like apple peel? and if i peel it all the seedy bits fall out!
who's in the wrong? me (non peeler) or work colleague (peeler)

its a quiet night

Love figs with skin on or off and adore fig rolls but always take the skin off kiwis. Am feeling slightly embarrassed that I peel mushrooms.

I don't think I've ever had a fig roll.

In Portugal and Madeira I had a fig cake a bit fig barfi. Both yum!

Some people are just precious. Eat the skin, it's really good for you.

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You have missed nothing by never having eaten a fig roll. They are ghastly.

I eat kiwis with skin on, started due to "al the vitamins and fibre are there" but once you've done it a few times then peeled (or scooped) ones taste a bit boring. The bit just next to the skin is sharp like lemon and without that it's a bit like a slightly better bit of melon. Plus vitamins, fibre blah blah but I like eating them like peaches.

I eat it as long as it's ripe enough. If it's not quite then I don't peel exactly but probably quarter it and just eat the inside - like an orange wedge. I rarely find them ripe enough to eat the skin in the uk :(

Freaky fig peelers! Just wrong. Cut a small cross on the top,stuff with roquefort and bake for a few minutes. Serve on rocket with balsamic vinegar and walnuts. The laziest appetiser in the world.

I always eat fig skins, never peel mushrooms, sometimes peel cucumbers. I used to have a friend who peeled aubergines, don't do that. However I cannot BEAR the skin on cooked tomatoes.

Is your work colleague always this weird.

YANBU of course you eat the fig skin!

Why peel a cucumber?? That's the only bit with any flavour! My DH does this too.

Eat fig skin, peel mushrooms and cucumbers.

YA all BU to eat figs. They are the Devils testes and the last word in horrendousness. Along with dates, especially those dates concealed in cereals like muesli.

Have you tried real, fresh figs? I ask because you liken them to dates which hide in muesli, which are dried. Dried figs are horrendous (as are most dried fruits)

I only recently learnt about fig wasp mutualism. Means they're not vegetarian plus they're flowers and not fruit.

www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/fig_wasp.shtml

Apparently it's the cucumber peel that gives people indigestion/makes them burp.

I always peel mushrooms, as they're grown in manure! I don't discuss it at work though, so I'm probably not your colleague

Figs scare me a little.

Anythewiser, it's the seeds in cucumber that make make you burp....I know this as my dad grew 'burp less cucumbers" one year...and they came without seeds!

I have fig trees here (live in abroad) and I'm up there every day just now checking to see if they're ripe. There was one outlier ripe yesterday, never might peeling it, I scrummed it straight off the tree, practically hysterical with happiness. Delicious!! Blurry love figs. I am so doing this roquefort recipe when I have a few ripe ones.

Cut a small cross on the top,stuff with roquefort and bake for a few minutes. Serve on rocket with balsamic vinegar and walnuts. The laziest appetiser in the world

BrightOranges I only learned about wasps in figs recently too. Some thing in nature are pretty mind-blowing aren't they?

Of course you eat the skin! What a waste of good fibre (not to mention fruit) if you don't. Who has time or energy for such a pointless task as peeling figs?