# Raisins are nature's boogers. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348 "2008-09-12T21:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/21 "2008-09-13T13:47:01Z")
Sweet pickles are the devil’s penis. But, that’s _whole_ 'nother thread. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/22 "2008-09-13T15:59:38Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Raisins are nature’s boogers. [Yes, that they are.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmrocher2001/2486451008/) ---
**Author:** ![Lavender\_Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@Lavender\_Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lavender_Falcon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/23 "2008-09-13T16:12:22Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Some freak somewhere, right now – right this very instant – is toying with the idea of putting raisins in spaghetti. And he’ll do it too. Oh yes, he’ll fucking do it. It’s already [been done](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mario-batali/spaghetti-with-bread-crumbs-and-raisins-spaghetti-con-luova-e-mollico-recipe/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/24 "2008-09-13T16:21:06Z")
_sobs_ **Is nothing sacred?!** What’s next, someone posting in the color _booger_, and calling themselves _The Raisinist?_ ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/25 "2008-09-13T16:50:02Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Raisin is a pretty cool word too, by the way. If I were a rapper I’d try to work raisin into my stage name. > > “I’m the amazin Rappin’ Raisin > my lyrics are plump and brazen…” > > Yeah…and I’d be a total punk dissin’ on the puffy-skinned youths leaking juice from the grilles on they go’d toofs. Don’t be comin to my box until you’ve given your last drop … bitches. You must be too young to remember the [California Raisins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Raisins). Consider yourself lucky. And raisins _rule_, especially when mixed with dried fruit and M&M’s. P.S. Yes, I know the California Raisins were more of an R&B group than rappers, but a singing raisin is a singing raisin. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/26 "2008-09-13T16:51:02Z")
> [@DooWahDiddy](#): > > You must be too young to remember the [California Raisins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Raisins). Consider yourself lucky. > > And raisins _rule_, especially when mixed with dried fruit and M&M’s. > > P.S. Yes, I know the California Raisins were more of an R&B group than rappers, but a singing raisin is a singing raisin. Nonetheless, they were fucktards. All of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/27 "2008-09-13T17:36:06Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > _sobs_ > **Is nothing sacred?!** > What’s next, someone posting in the color _booger_, and calling themselves _The Raisinist?_ This post has been boogered by the… Remarkably, so-called [golden raisins](http://www.vinetreeorchards.com/raisgold.htm) are fairly well booger-colored. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/28 "2008-09-13T17:40:29Z")
Well, I’ll be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/29 "2008-09-13T18:09:56Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Well, I’ll be damned. Here. Have a raisin. That’ll make you feel better. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348/30 "2008-09-13T18:14:36Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Here. Have a raisin. That’ll make you feel better. Don’t even joke, man. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raisins-are-natures-boogers/463348.md?page=1)