# Dried dates **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432 "2011-09-06T21:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/1 "2011-09-06T21:36:37Z")
Anyone else think they look like cockroaches? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/2 "2011-09-06T21:45:35Z")
My husband has always said so! And he refuses to eat them because of this. It’s the semi-translucent glossy brownness, I suppose. The big medjool dates look a lot less like roaches, and they taste wonderful. Due to the mister’s squeamishness, I always get them all. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/3 "2011-09-06T21:47:15Z")
I just finished off the last of them. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/4 "2011-09-06T22:15:47Z")
I preferred the diced dates, no skin. I hate the leatheriness of the skin. I can’t eat them much any more, way too much inherent sugar to interfere with my diabetes =( I would kill for a date shake right now =( ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/5 "2011-09-06T22:37:14Z")
Heh. Mr. Horseshoe pointed out years ago to my that dried apricots look like ears, and I don’t think I’ve eaten once since then. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/6 "2011-09-06T23:23:37Z")
I call dried apricots ears, too. Or dead man’s ears. ---
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/7 "2011-09-07T00:06:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I call dried apricots ears, too. Or dead man’s ears. In “Red Square” Arkady Renko recalls that during the war his father had taken the ears of a German soldier and afterwards kept them in his study hung on the wall, looking like a pair of dried apricots. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/8 "2011-09-07T01:48:07Z")
A bit. This is why I only eat them wrapped in bacon. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dried-dates/595432/9 "2011-09-07T04:29:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I just finished off the last of them. They do, and yes I did. Primates have always eaten insects, but I suspect (having not done the research) this is as close as any of us want to get, what with their shells and all. John the Baptist ate locusts and honey. I can pretend this is the next best thing.