I never did like figs at all. It's the bland, peppery taste that closes up the throat.

It was many years later when I discussed this with a friend who was telling me how wonderful his fresh figs were, and found that there was no peppery itching in his experience of figs. And came to the conclusion that I most likely have a mild fig allergy. It doesn't make them dangerous to me, just unpleasant; unless maybe I ate 100 figs, and there's no chance of that.

I still don't like them. De gustibus non disputandum est.