Did You Ever Eat A Fig?

If your answer is yes...

then you have eaten a wasp!

When you eat figs, technically, you're also eating wasps.

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Figs are pollinated by female wasps, who lose their wings in the process of pollination. The wasp has no way to get out of the fig and so they die inside, and then the fig's enzymes breakdown and dissolve the wasp. 

BTW:

Notice the first ingredient

in those

FIG NEWTONS....

 Ingredients: FIGS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT FLOUR, UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2},FOLIC ACID), CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, BAKING SODA, CULTURED DEXTROSE, CALCIUM ...

"Yummy Yummy  Yummy

you got

bees

in your tummy"