[Sca-cooks] Plum loco

Philippa Alderton phlip_u at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 18 07:26:04 PDT 2001


--- Druighad at aol.com wrote:
> and lets not forget that plums dried out are....
> PRUNES! Then you can start
> all over again!!
>
> , with a most evil and delighted grin.

Hate to disappoint such enthusiasm, Finnebhir, but
plums dried out are just that- dried plums. Prunes are
a different, closely related subspecies, as in all
prunes are plums, but not all plums are prunes.

But it's a common error, an urban myth- most (fruit)
farmers know better ;-)

Phlip

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