Eat Fig Newtons or starve is indeed a very close decision.
I prefer strawberry Newtons but Fig Newtons are good too.
Anyone remember Juice Newton? What was that all about?
You’d have to squeeze a lot of newtons to get even a little juice. Even then, it’d be all sticky sweet and I don’t think I would like it.
Maybe. It all depends on your taste in music.
I love Fig Newtons, but the fig bars at the Korean produce stands in New York are even better.
They’re not the greatest things in the world (other flavors are better), but they aren’t bad. And they aren’t as cloyingly sweet as many other cookies–making it much easier to eat a lot of them.
They taste okay, but they always seem too dry, so I said no. My mother loved them - I think they were her favourite cookie.
I want to like them, but they always disappoint.
Remember the episode of MASH when Hawkeye was having a bad time and Colonel Potter offers him a glass of Scotch from his private stash. Then the Colonel pulls out a box of Fig Newtons and suggests Hawk take one, with the gleeful comment, “They’re great if you dunk 'em!”
Ah Fig Newtons. Love them!
However, I have not actually purchased them for years in a package. They are sugar bombs that, while delicious, can cut into a diet quickly and effortlessly.
What I do now is buy figs separately (I love figs) and I will put a quarter-sheet of a honey maid graham cracker with it. Not as soft and chewy as a real fig newton, but it DOES satisfy much of my taste bud cravings.
If you eat one small fig with a 1/4 piece of a graham cracker and eat them together, it tastes pretty close to a fig newton with a bit more of a crunch.
My potted fig tree dropped it’s first tiny, wizened, green fig today. I wept and drank myself senseless.
a nasty cookie.
When I was a child, Fig Newtons were pretty much my favorite food. My family still teases me about the vigor with which I belted out “We all want some figgy pudding” while singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas – because, of course, I was thinking of Fig Newtons.
I don’t know whether I ever had an official fig newton. We had some around at least once or twice when I was growing up, but I wasn’t too sure what a fig was, plus the wrapper had some sort of creepy-looking mascot that I think must have something like an anthropomorphic fig.
To me they taste like ass would taste like if I ever tasted ass, which I have not.
And they’re not named after Sir Isaac.
I even do that with 'za. But not with burgers, save to remove an offensive item like pickles.
Anyway, fig newtons, yeah, they’re prett. good.
“Newtons aren’t cookies. They’re fat free fruit and cake!” line from a Newtons commercial, probably in the 90’s.