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06 January 2009

I like prunes. They taste so good, and are really versatile, too.
Shit happens, dude.
posted by jonmc 06 January | 20:06
My brother refers to my mom's kitchen as "the constipation station," which is true only if you don't eat your whole meal, including the fruit salad she kindly provides, prunes and all. I like to fart and shit, and I bet I'd be pretty unhappy here without prunes. Also she makes wicked strong coffee, which my brother doesn't drink, so he'll be bunged up 'til he gets with the double-flush program.
posted by Hugh Janus 06 January | 20:11
Staying on topic, the idiot doorman who leaves the door open not only didn't flush but crapped on the seat in the staff toilet (near the mailroom, sometimes I use it if I don't think I can last an elevator ride) last night.
posted by brujita 06 January | 20:20
open late at night---there's gang graffiti at a construction site two doors down.
posted by brujita 06 January | 20:21
Recent bad experience, man. I do love them, though. YUM.
posted by Stewriffic 06 January | 20:38
mmmm prunes. Yum.
posted by gaspode 06 January | 20:39
Awesome question, Stewriffic. I thought the wind-relieving pose was "discretely shift in chair onto left buttock".

I love prunes. I really love the individually wrapped kind because they slow my prune consumption down just enough that I don't hurt myself.
posted by jamaro 06 January | 20:48
Man... Prunes to me are tied up in memories of my Gran. She was in her 90s, living with us, and would boil water, add a few prunes to a cup, leave them covered with a saucer overnight, and eat them (and drink the water) in the morning. She claimed it cured her arthritis. She'd then hoist her skirt up, tuck it into her huge granny knickers, hike a leg up on to a chair, and "do her exercises" regardless of who could see her.

But I can't see, smell, or even think of prunes without thinking about Gran.
posted by jonathanstrange 06 January | 20:49
OMG it hurt so badly. It was the inability to relieve the wind, see.
posted by Stewriffic 06 January | 20:55
I totally understand, i've felt that way before and it's awful.

It always happens to me when I go up into the mountains (like this past weekend). Something about going from a few feet above sea level to 4K feet gives me awful bubbles. I've noticed that the same thing happens to bags of Dorito chips: they swell up and sometimes pop. Then I asked my friends if they were having the same problem (clearly, we are close friends) and they all fessed up to having the same problem.
posted by jamaro 06 January | 21:01
Don't like 'em. Years ago I worked at this private school where we had a cook. She was a terrible cook and the food she served was a pity and a disgrace. One of her favorite things to do was to make brownies in which she had put a large amount of pureed prunes. She would crow "You can't even taste 'em!" Only you could. You really could. And it was frustrating, because otherwise they looked like really good chocolate brownies. But they just ended up tasting too...nutritious. You know, like carob, or chocolate chip cookies made with whole wheat flour.
posted by Miko 06 January | 21:04
Gas pain is the worst. Ow. Ginger capsules or ginger tea helps sometimes.

And I've never had prunes. They always looked like freshly removed kidneys or something.
posted by chewatadistance 06 January | 21:06
I love prunes. I have a giant tub of them at my desk at work, and have to be really careful to not go overboard. Like Stewriffic. Which I did today. *toot*
posted by misskaz 06 January | 22:11
I like prunes.

And that, my dear, is why I will have to love you from a distance.
posted by elizard 06 January | 22:22
Mmmm...prunes.
posted by jrossi4r 06 January | 23:40
I used to have a job where I roasted hundreds of chickens and rounds of beef at a time, to sit in a warm oven for shabbat dinner service, and the sauces I made invariably had prunes in them. Prunes take the sting out of garlic without overpowering sweetness. They pair well with citrus, with pears, with most meats (though probably not most fishes). I dunno, I really meant this as a "dig the flavor" not a "dig the effect" post, but I'll take both. Try simmering prunes in wine, red or white.

Oh, and jonathanstrange, prunes also remind me of my great uncle Ben, who is now 96 and hale. He and my great aunt Gertrude always drank prune juice during their visits, though they smelled more like the vinyl lining of their yellow American Tourister luggage. I love thinking about them both.
posted by Hugh Janus 06 January | 23:53
i'm okay with prunes. i prefer plums.
posted by ethylene 06 January | 23:57
Oh yeah, now plums, that's the ticket. I guess the only fruit I like better dried than fresh is apricots.

That's actually probably untrue, I bet if I thought real hard I could come up with another.

Dried apricots are nice with roast chicken too. Or with almonds in a tart. And berries.

I think I need a snack.
posted by Hugh Janus 07 January | 00:02
I bet if I thought real hard I could come up with another.
Cranberries are way better dried than fresh.
posted by jrossi4r 07 January | 00:10
i am having a sammich sans fruit for lack of any applicable items. It is fontina cheese and shaved turkey, though, broiling as we speak.
posted by ethylene 07 January | 00:14
There was dijon. It was okay.
posted by ethylene 07 January | 00:32
I think prunes are vile.
posted by brujita 07 January | 03:41
I'm craving me some prunes now!
posted by Specklet 07 January | 08:22
Prune brownies.
posted by essexjan 07 January | 12:29
Never had a prune, but I love plums. I should try one someday.
posted by deborah 07 January | 16:49
Any NY bunnies going to Exene/John Doe on the 10th? || Tales from A Flower Shop:

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