fig-season

Updated: May 24, 2025

It was the fig-season, and we passed through several alleys encumbered with long rows of fig-dressers, children and women for the most part, who were packing the fruit diligently into drums, dipping them in salt-water first, and spreading them neatly over with leaves; while the figs and leaves are drying, large white worms crawl out of them, and swarm over the decks of the ships which carry them to Europe and to England, where small children eat them with pleasure I mean the figs, not the worms and where they are still served at wine-parties at the Universities.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo