Talk:Prune (fruit)
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Can anyone post a photo of a prune? Names of fruits and vegetables are difficult or impossible to understand for non-native speakers based only on description. Descriptions can be very confusing, whereas a picture can lay away any doubt.
[edit] Prunes vs. plums
The article claims that a prune is not the same as a dried plum. Are we sure about this? This contradicts, for instance, Merriam-Webster (m-w.com).
Well I usually consider dried plum to be the chinese dried plum which is much drier to the form that is often refered to as a prune. However, I supose dried plum would be a larger catagory and also include prunes. I left a link to Aji ichiban which sells various flavours of chinese dried plums. The link below is ginsing.
http://ajiichiban-usa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=A&Product_Code=DF4111-L01A
[edit] Send to BJAODN?
Camp Song: The Prune Song
Ohhhhh...No matter how young a prune may be, he's always getting wrinkles. A baby prune is like his dad, but he's not wrinkled quite so bad. We have wrinkles on our face, A prune has wrinkles every place. Ohhhh...No matter how young a prune may be, he's always getting wrinkles.
(Hand motions -- swing arms during the song. Point to your face at "we have wrinkles every place". Use hands to squish your face into the shape of a prune and in a high pitch squeal sing "prunes have wrinkles every place".
-Submitted by Jay Fink
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prune"
This was on the page, and seems to be silly enough to be sent to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense.
[edit] laxative
Why do prunes have laxative qualities? Chris 04:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
this makes no sense to me for several reasons? 1. How can a plumb dried to become a prune be juiced? Doesn't drying take away all juices from the fruit? 2. How can a prune ever be "fresh" when it is a dried plumb? Things that are dried aren't really fresh. 3. How can a dried plumb (prune) ever reach the market before a fresh plumb, when chronologically, a fresh plumb precedes the prune? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.232.21.226 (talk • contribs) January 17, 2007.
