My local farmers market is selling imported figs. Chile is exporting Figs and Pomegranates to the US starting last year. These are Black missions, They looked good, so I bought two baskets for $.99 each. If you think Store bought figs from California taste bad, wait till you try these.

They tasted nothing like a fig. 

Maybe you can slice it and put it on a ham sandwich.  Similar to what is done with countless tasteless tomatoes picked when hard and green.

Charging only 99cents a basket doesn't seem as if they are making much money on them, esp considering fuel costs. They do look good however. I would have purchased some too.

You could try dehydrating them to concentrate the flavor. Maybe sprinkle the cut halves with a bit of sugar first.

This is one reason why we all go thru all that trouble/effort growing figs.
They are best, and only best if harvested ripe right off the tree and just eaten...

Yes why not try drying them?  I absolutely love my sister's dried Brown Turkey figs, although fresh they are nothing to write home about.

I can buy a pound of dried figs for $2 from the same market and taste a million times better. 

Right on Bass, that's what makes fig trees so awesome to grow!

You've got some decent tortoise food there Bass, not fit for human consumption

Only taste good if splice in half & BBQ lightly with whatever one wants to put on.

Thats the problem they have to be picked that way to ship them.
Just look at those at 1 and 3 o'clock showing green they appear to have just started to color dark. Mission i grow does not have green in them when fully ripe.
We are indeed spoiled and eat the best of the best in our own yard.

To bad figs are not like apples or banana's.

I just got back from Trader Joe's and purchased some dried figs. They had 4 kinds. Some Calmyras from Turkey, then 3 varities of Trader Joe's brand- calmyra, conadria, and mission. I purchased the conadria and mission.

They were smaller figs, and of the two, the mission is better in terms of both sweet and flavor.

My own figs are still in the cutting stage, and I wanted to make some fig newtons. So now I can. :)  Going to use the 'lesser' conadrias just to use them up. Probably won't buy those again.

The dried figs are a Turkish white figs.. 

Alan,
Try this online site:
http://nuts.com/driedfruit/figs/

Hi Bass ,

Sorry to hear about the Chilean figs you bought  . While we were down there in March we bought some  at markets and found it hit and miss.
But any that we picked from the trees were excellent .

A freshly picked handful .



A plate full of figs .


Soooo Good .


If you need something to be done right you gotta do it yourself . So either grow them yourself or go down there and pick them yourself . Lol

John

Alan,
Those "Baby " figs are like (if not same) the "Shirazi" figs.
They are very, very dry and sweet, sweet - may need to soaked in water or milk.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/Shirazi-Figs-3895253?highlight=shirazi