# 4 Foods Renamed So That You might eat them.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 27, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-foods-renamed-so-that-you-might-eat-them/648507 "2013-01-27T02:54:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-foods-renamed-so-that-you-might-eat-them/648507/41 "2013-01-28T21:46:28Z")

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> [@dropzone](#):
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> Nope. They’re [dried plums](http://www.californiadriedplums.org/) now. Still just as tasty, but we’re eating more fiber these days so we don’t have to ask, “Is three enough, is six too many?” You probably shouldn’t eat a whole box, but just because of the calories.
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> Also: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgzbKe6\_DN4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgzbKe6_DN4)

[Sunsweet still calls them prunes.](http://sunsweet.com/products/ones.html)

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-foods-renamed-so-that-you-might-eat-them/648507/42 "2013-01-28T22:48:01Z")

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> [@WotNot](#):
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> But what of those of us who need to distinguish between raisins, [sultanas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_%28grape%29) and [currants?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant)

I do, but then I cook medieval foods. And while yes you can sub raisins for ‘raisins of courance’ or zante currents, there is a taste difference. Not all dried berries taste alike 😛

But then again, I also use long peppers, cubebs and szechuan peppers, none of which are either peppercorns or chilis and are not actually swappable either. [though all are called peppers of various sorts]

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-foods-renamed-so-that-you-might-eat-them/648507/43 "2013-01-28T22:52:45Z")

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I think _scrod_ sounds like some disgusting venereal disease (as opposed to the undisgusting venereal diseases?)

StG

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-foods-renamed-so-that-you-might-eat-them/648507/44 "2013-01-28T23:18:17Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> …Sea urchin roe…

Even this is not quite right. We actually eat the gonads that produce the roe, and not the roe itself.

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