Monday, January 3, 2011

Is that [plastic] fig vegan?


When the urge to freshen up our spare bathroom came over me a few months ago, the decorating theme ended up being "figs".  This wasn't a huge job as it only involved a coat of fresh paint, new towels, and a few new accessories. I've always loved figs (fig jam being  my absolute favorite), and since we have several trees in our garden, the whole fig thing seemed like a good fit.
However, it wasn't a couple of days since the paint had dried that I noticed that the two fake figs I'd carefully positioned in a basket around the sink had been sampled. Seeing the obvious tooth marks in the figs didn't exactly come as a surprise.  It took me two seconds to figure out that bimba  was the culprit, but I've got to wonder, when she bit into the first fig and realized it was plastic, what exactly was her logic for biting into the second one?