Happy Holidays!
Did a search of the forum and it appears to be a first - Rocky Marciano hasn't been on the forum before!
Good work (Christmas fig, too)!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Lou and Everyone

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmes! I think it was "figgy pudding" that was the appropriate Christmas use of a fig.

Merry Christmas.
Fig tree is native to Bethlehem where Jesus was born, it makes more sense as a christmas tree.

Nice work lou,

bass

Merry Xmas to all!
A figgy Xmas tree, what an idea. I love it!
Have to try it one of these happy times,
just to see the expression on my wife's face...
I predict that she will also say "you are REALLY nuts"!
George (NJ).

I saw figgy pudding in one of the messages. I have heard it mentioned in Christmas Carol. Has anyone ever made figgy pudding? If so do you have a recipe you could share.

Merry Christmas you all.

Vern_2006

From Maryland, also, I wish everyone an inspired Christmas season.
fignut: Looks a little like Robert DeNiro, to me. :-) If it's Rocky Marciano (and if memory serves), I believe he was never knocked off his feet, in his entire career.

Vern,

Pick your recipe at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22figgy+pudding%22+recipe

Merry Christmas!

I've wondered about that "figgy pudding" line in We Wish You a Merry Christmas before myself.

~Chills

Happy Holidays Everyone.

That line is even more curious when we remember that Jesus hated figs... ;)

Here is a link that might be useful: Maybe Jesus preffered apple pie

Thanks to Pitangadiego I googled figgy pudding and found several recipes. I may try one next year when I dry more figs.

Vern

The fir-tree is a tree of northern lands and means masculine vitality; the fig means so masculine vigour (the white latex...), so as feminine fertility (the secrete misterious, closed and juicy involucre) for all the mediterranean people was exactly so in the centuries.
Surely Jesus rested and preached under a fig-tree and some their parabolae recounted about fig trees.
Ciao Sergio

The fig is integrally woven into the fabric of history. It has even found its way into unlikely words in the English language. Prolific, meaning plentiful or very productive comes from the root words "Proli" (many) "Ficus (figs). Sycophant, or someone who is a "bootlicker" or grovels before authority, means to "show the fig". According to one source, although there is another theory as well, sycophants were those individuals who turned in those who were illiegally exporting figs in ancient Greece. Condit, in his work "The Fig", p. 6, revealed some interesting details regarding the figs' symbolic significance in ancient times.

"The Fig, an Emblem of Fertility; its Phallic Significance: In Oriental countries, according to AIGREMONT (1908), the fig is a symbol of fertility and of propagation. Among the Hellenes it was sacred to the sensuous, flabby, procreative god Dionysus, who, in order to keep his promise to Polyhymnos, placed a phallus of fig wood upon the latter's grave and preserved the promised favor for himself. The fig tree was in the vegetable world that which the swine was in the animal world, the most pronounced symbol of procreation and of fruit-bearing. Especially was the fig sacred to Priapus, in whom the phallic characteristics appeared most pronounced; images of this god were carved from fig wood. The phallus carried at many Dionysian festivals was also of fig wood. The fig became the tree of the phallic worshippers of India as well as of Italy where the people still use the gesture "fico", the thumb inserted between the two fingers. This prophylactic gesture, known in all Mediterranean fig districts, was once sexual in character, the thumb apparently being a symbol of the phallus. The French expression for it is "faire la figue"; the Italian, "far le fichi"; the Spanish, "hacer la higa"; the Portuguese, "dar huma figa". An early reference to this gesture is made in Dante's Inferno, Canto XXV, 1-3: "A la fine de le sue parole ii ladro Le mani alz~), con ambedue le fiche Gridando:Togli, Iddia, cha te le squadrol." The words "le fiche" appear in translation as in mockery. Amulets, or phallic symbols, made of ivory, bronze, porcelain, and other materials are worn in various countries. J. LEITE DE VASCONCELLOS (1925) gives an excellent account of these amulets and illustrates over threescore forms used in Portugal, Italy, and northern Europe (FIG. 1). Figs of sugar candy in the form of a phallus were once sold by peddlers at the autumn festival of a Shinto Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. (See F. S. KRAUSS, 1907.)"

Merry Christmas to all of my fig friends, both here in America and in the lands across the sea as well!