Why do raisins get the special privilege of a name not tied to their origin?
No other dried fruit gets a whole new name. Ok, prunes do. But people only eat prunes to shit not for actual enjoyment purposes. All other fruits are just dried whatevers. Dried apricots, dried apples, dried bananas. Ok, maybe they are banana chips...but that makes way more sense than going from dried grapes to raisins.
Maybe there are a lot of holes in this argument of mine.
But I still want to make it.
I don't like raisins all that much, unless they're in cookies or oatmeal so I'm going to demote them from their high status and just start calling them dried grapes.
I think that's fair.
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Raisins are the nasty mines of baking, ruining pastries when you least expect it.
Go to hell, raisins.
Maybe it has something to do with purple fruits. Purple being a royal color and all, perhaps, this color gives them a special privileged in the dried fruit world?? Hmmm...
jade, you're brilliant. maybe even brilliante.
It actually has something to do with the Norman invasion.
For a long time, in England, French was spoken in the courts of the nobility, but English was the language of the commoners. During that time, terms tended to drift across the language, and sometimes, two words would appear for the same thing. A very common example of this is purple/violet, both describing a color that is created with the mixing of red and blue pigments.
Raisins is the French word (thereby derived from the Latin) for grape. Grape finds its roots in the Germanic side of our language. However, the term drifted over from the French and became adopted into English as the term we use to describe dried grapes.
the indefatigable mjenks: that was a very serious history lesson. i'm more than impressed.
the indefatigable mjenks
wow yeah I'm really impressed too. that was great, I was not expecting to learn that much haha. Great Post too! good point!
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