You've been there, someone in the office brings in homemade cookies and you're eyeing them, not quite sure if they're chocolate chip but, they don't look like oatmeal so you take two of them, bite in only to find those weren't chocolate chips! They're raisins! What a disappointment! And now you have two raisin cookies to politely choke down or give away.
Of the three I can tolerate raisins. Broccoli salad, carrot cake, they're just not the same without raisins. I don't care for them plain, just to eat. Though the thing about them when cooked that bothers me is that they re inflate/rehydrate/whatever and why bother to dehydrate them in the first place if you're going to turn them back into grapes?
Out of curiosity, did you know that steak sauce's primary ingredient is...Raisin paste?
Dates - dates are gross. Just Gross. They remind me of detached fingers in the crime shows on TV. When I lived at home oh, twenty some years ago, my mom had a box of dates in the refrigerator. The box was 70's orange and brown and I'd bet you a dollar to this day - that same box is still in there! My palate is not refined to the point where I could say a date was used in a sauce, a dressing or a compote (as the http://www.datesaregreat.com/ states as popular uses for them) but, if I saw a date on a plate - I would likely pass - regardless of what it was stuffed with!
Prunes - prunes are even worse than dates! Remember that TV commercial where they're popping prunes like candy saying how they're like 'nature's candy' or some crap like that? I wonder if they really chewed and ate them or spit them in the trash? We had some uh, issues with Jacob when he was a baby and the Dr. suggested some baby prunes. Jacob loved them! He ate them right up! After every spoon he'd open his mouth like a little bird and leaning toward me for the spoon. He ate nearly the whole jar and well, the issue, it was shall we say, resolved. Yeah.
I'm a little afraid of getting old and partaking in the prune juice cocktails. The thought really is freightening - isn't there a yogurt now to help with that?
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