prunes

     

A prune is a ried fruit of various plum species, mostly Prunus domestica or European Plums. The fresh fruit looks like a normal plum, but has an oval shape, similar to an apricot. When dried it is wrinkly in texture, and chewy on the inside.

Trivia about prunes

  • You might start off your meal with half a grapefruit or these dried plums stewed
  • Austrian schlosserbuben are these wrinkled fruits baked in dough & rolled in sugar & chocolate
  • A California board maintained by producers of these dried plums has "regular" meetings
  • Sunsweet first advertised these in the 1960s with the slogan "Today the Pits, Tomorrow the Wrinkles"