which is one of the most dessert turkey fig bardacık began collecting but the price is very expensive 1 kg fig 3 dollars but it tastes great <script src='http://img21.imageshack.us/shareable/?i=dsc01738g.jpg&p=tl' type='text/javascript'></script><noscript>[URL=http://img21.imageshack.us/i/dsc01738g.jpg/][IMG]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3884/dsc01738g.jpg[/IMG][/URL]</noscript>
3$ for 1 KG is very good price for these delicious figs. In the usa we pay $3 for 1 pound which is less than half a kilo.
Herman2
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Common Bass:Be fair. Many people in rich countrie think short like you do. $3 a killos,is low price,HERE,in the USA but not in Turkey. You account it like that: Medium Salary here:$12 an hour. 40 hour week =$480 You can buy $480 divided by $3=160Kilograms of figs can be bought on a week salary. Turkey:$7000 a year:52 weeks=$134 weekly, and can buy: $134:$3=44kg of figs for a weekly salary Now Mister Bass are fig expensive in Turkey or not? I fill so bad when I know many people in this country think like you and I fill worse that some of them are new emigrants here and should know better??????
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Herman, thanks for the explanation. I, like Bass and others, probably just had no idea. We think a dollar here is the same as a dollar there---at least I did.
Aliok1, those figs are beautiful and look delicious. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
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Herman, I am well aware of cost of living in other countries. What I meant to say that in the US this is a good price, but for Turkish people specially where figs are abundant, it is expensive. I agree with you 100%.
Cassandra
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Those are huge figs. What varieties get that big here? (And still taste good)
Herman2
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In the avatar picture you mean:That is Burnisotte Black. Burnisotte Black is not easy to grow here but with some twices,twisting,and turning ,it did. And what a taste and Flavor!. It is one of my best succeses in growing rare difficult to grow cultivars. And yes that is my own picture if anyone question!!!
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Actually I meant the ones in the post. The avatar pix are too small to make out anything. Let's see your avatar full size... you've got me curious now. Maybe start a new topic so we don't hijack this post.