# Prunes and red hots **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569 "2003-03-27T18:22:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/21 "2003-03-27T21:22:18Z")
> [@](#): > > You better be no more than 30 seconds from a toilet if you eat prunes The new advertizing slogan for prunes. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/22 "2003-03-27T21:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > let the record show that I blame my love for prunes on my Nana, who fed them to me when I was what she called “a teeny tiny tot”. She also gave me coffee. HOT damn, I must have been one, erm . . . regular kid Did she introduce you to cigerettes and reading on the toilet too? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/23 "2003-03-27T21:29:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*Johnny Cash’s song \*\*\* Burning Ring of Fire \*\*\* is now playing in my mind. > > Next time you are on the Prunes Diet Plan, instead of Redhots, try some green chiles. > > Ohhh, baby, what comes out of you ( meaning: me) could be marketed at Poison Gas. \*\* I was thinking more along the lines of: _Auntie’s burning, Auntie’s burning Look out! Look out! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Pour on water! Pour on water!_ Um, please tell me someone else knows that song, and that you’re not all utterly 😕 So, green chiles, eh? Wow. You are more woman than I. But thanks for letting me know I’m not alone with my ass of fire . . . ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/24 "2003-03-27T21:40:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*Did she introduce you to cigerettes and reading on the toilet too? \*\* Not quite, but she did buy me _candy_ cigarettes and introduced me to the whole “leaving the bathroom door open” concept. Also she taught me that wearing black underwear under white clothing makes it look like you’re not wearing any underwar. And that LYSOL is a good substitute for Massengil. :eek: A wealth of good knowledge, that gal. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/25 "2003-03-27T21:42:20Z")
“…she did buy me candy cigarettes…” Hey, I remember them! I used to pretend I was smoking a real cigarette. Do they even make them any more? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/26 "2003-03-27T21:48:25Z")
I haven’t seen any in eons, **samarm**. My guess is that they’d be way too un-PC nowadays. But they were tasty, weren’t they? I used to get so frustrated when I’d share them with my sister (10 years my senior) and, instead of pretending to smoke them like you’re _supposed_ to do, she’d just bite off a big hunk and chew. All wrong. It was just all wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/27 "2003-03-27T21:51:25Z")
Ah. I think we’ve found our answer, **samarm**. [http://www.cardhouse.com/a/candy/candy.htm](http://www.cardhouse.com/a/candy/candy.htm) > [@](#): > > Of course, they’re not called “candy cigarettes” now. The two largest U.S. manufacturers of candy cigarettes, Necco and World Candies, have voluntarily renamed their products to “Candy Stix” and just “Candy”, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/28 "2003-03-27T22:04:41Z")
Just you wait till I seize power… er I mean “get elected”. I’ll make them produce candy cigarettes, candy cigars (made in Cuba on the thighs of hot Latino babes), candy pipes… erm… that’s it for now. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/29 "2003-03-27T22:09:50Z")
Ooooh, and um . . . maybe outlaw prunes while you’re at it, wouldja? For my protection. And how about candy hookah pipes? ---
**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/30 "2003-03-29T23:23:28Z")
everything came out okay, yes? 😉 prunes prunes the magical fruit the more you eat the more you poop… ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/31 "2003-03-29T23:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Um, please tell me someone else knows that song, and that you’re not all utterly 😕 > \*\* I know it! Although I learned the second line as “Fetch the engines! Fetch the engines!” Which would be _extremely_ disturbing in this context… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/32 "2003-03-30T02:42:34Z")
I can’t believe I read the whole article but; they’re not called prunes any more. It seems that the Dried Plum Advisory Board wants to change it’s image and henceforth politely asks that prunes be known as dried plums. Really. They lobbied and stuff to get the name change okayed by the gov. So you see, pru-- errr, dried plums are cool, hipster food dontcha know. Now where’s that rolleyes smiley? With spin like this, a few of those guys would be doubly appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/33 "2003-03-30T04:54:27Z")
Prunes make you poo in a hurry? They don’t do that to me - they just give me nice, big fat poopies. (Um, we may have slipped into TMI here.) My husband says the same thing of bran, but that has the same effect on me, too - it doesn’t give me the trots (or “Diapoopus of the Blowhole”, as hubby calls it), but it does bung me up sometimes. My system must be wired funny. As for my candy poison of choice, I have a 1 kg container of sour gummy bears in my desk at work. They don’t exactly set my innards on fire; it’s a whole 'nother kind of weird feeling in there. Those little bastards are good and SOUR. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569/34 "2003-03-30T07:11:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\ ***yosemite** , let the record show that I blame my love for prunes on my Nana, who fed them to me when I was what she called “a teeny tiny tot”. She also gave me coffee. HOT damn, I must have been one, erm . . . _regular_ kid! \*\* This is one of the ways you and I differ. My great-grammy was also a big believe in the prunes=regular theory. I was fed a great many prunes and given lots of prune juice as a little elf. While I might, maybe, perhaps consider eating a prune on a dare, I’d rather be shot than drink prune juice again. As long at it was only a flesh wound, mind you. Prune juice is oily and… blech. There are some things you should _never_ try to juice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prunes-and-red-hots/164569.md?page=1)