Fig Joke in "War of the Roses"

She was impressed because figs were expensive in that time period and had to be imported. Which was a whole ordeal because they don't last very long, and you can't import green ones and ripen them at home either. So that lady might have only tasted figs a couple of times in her life, even if she was loaded.

Maybe it's just the association with figs apparently standing for female genitalia (this was new to me.) Unrelated: The stoic philosopher Chrysippus died while cracking a joke about a donkey eating figs, something along the lines of "Now give him some wine to wash it down". Figs ripen in a very short time period so you either have no figs or too many. What is a luxury item here is food for the donkeys and goats in Greece, Sicily etc. while at the same time being delicious enough for royalty.

it might be suggesting shes as old as Adam abd EVE..

I remember Alan Bates eating a fig in Women in Love - perhaps suggestively- and when being interviewed some time later Bette Midler said that scene “damn near changed my life”

[quote]Which was a whole ordeal because they don't last very long, and you can't import green ones and ripen them at home either.

I guess she never heard of Fig Newtons.

In Sex and the City, Mr. Pussy demonstrates his skills on a fig and Carrie says from that moment on, Charlotte couldn’t be in the same room as a fig.

Hidden meaning was invisible to me. I thought it was just about her character being an innovative cook.

Most of my extended family is from Louisiana, where figs grow in abundance. Indeed, they do not keep. When they come in, they are canned as fig preserves, which are exquisitely sweet. We always had a jar in the pantry from one my great aunts or a cousin.

Scene r4 is referring to. *SWOON* Bates was so fuckable 💦

The character of Buddy in Kids in the Hall closed a segment with "needless to say, I ate a lot of figs that year."

Never understood that either.

By the way—don’t touch the figs.