Margaret > like dates. Sob. I love dates, but I have kicked the nicotine habit years > ago, and I'm not about to start chewing. I'll just eat dates. There's a local market in Atlanta that I darn near have to avoid because I can't resist the temptation of the big baskets of dates they always have out to tempt me. Catharine, looking at her fig tree that is absolutely loaded and wishing they were dates.